Gallery – Soviet Forced Labour

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Dated 9-10-1941

Ken Fedzin

During WWII

Dawidkowce

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian Personal Card from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive)

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian. Personal report #14816 p.1 from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive). Dated on 08.08.1942

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian. Personal report #14816 p.4 from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive). Dated on 08.08.1942

Archangel Labour/Gulag Camps 1940-41, my family were split between Siencybino (No 2 on the map highlighted) where my Grandfather and family were and Szenczuga (No 1) In the Konosha District

During WWII

Russia

Russian Amnesty Database Records (31/08/41) of what they called ‘Special Settlement’ areas basically their Gulag Labour Camps.

Jan Zak 1882-1942 & Aniela Zak 1899-1942 (Arrived in the region 23/02/40)

Aniela Zak 1884-1942 wife of Adam Zak (pictured) who perished in Siberia in 1942.

Jan Zak 1882-1942 my maternal Grandfather, he is one of 17 Zaks (of 128 listed on IPN Records) of my family that were associated with the Exile of Poles to Siberia.

Maria Dobrowolska nee Zak (my mother)
Born 10/04/1924 Leszniòw Poland
Died 5/5/1986 Leicester England
Survived Exile to Siberia and settled in England

Maria Zak 1924 - Exile to Siencybino Archangel

Franciszeka Witek nee Zak 1921-1973
Born 9/3/1921 Stoki Poland
Died 25/7/1973 Mountsorrel England
Survived Exile to Siberia
Joined Polish 2 Corps as a volunteer nurse/para medic with the Polish161 Fd Hospital and saw service in the Middle East & Italy at Monte Cassino, Ancona & Bologna.
Survived Exile to Siberia.

Franciszeka Zak - Exile to Siencybino Archangel

Aniela Zak nee Dziedzic 1899-1942
Perished in Siberia (wife of Jan Zak)

Aniela Zak nee Chmiel 1884-1942
Wife of Adam Zak, younger brother of Jan Zak
Perished in Siberia.