Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Tried to save bread for her mother
Eugenia describes how she kept wanting to save part of her bread so that she could bring it to her starving mother, but she was so hungry herself that she …
Maria (Tarasiewicz) van der Linden - Describes kolhoz in N Kazakhstan
Maria describes the way they had to live when they arrived at the kolkhoz.
Maria (Tarasiewicz) van der Linden - Fortune Telling to Survive
Maria tells how her mother took to fortune-telling in exchange for food during the winter months, thereby allowing them to survive.
Aniela (Wawrzyńczyk) Zychowicz - Working in Uzbekistan
Describing how she helped her 3 sisters in the cotton fields, in order to earn more soup and bread.
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Family members who died first in USSR
Jozefa describes conditions in the Gulag and the family members who died there.
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Father was on the ship that was sunk by the Russians
Jozefa explains how she only learned in recent years about how her father died – he was one of the deportees that was on the ship that was sunk by …
Nadzieja (Biernik) Dawydczenko - Death of hunger and cold
Kazimierz Harasymowicz - Forced labour
Jan Michałowicz - Free from gulag
Jan Michałowicz - Work in gulag
Mieczyslaw Gigiera - Mieczyslaw Gigiera - Biography of Mieczyslaw Gigiera
My arrest, prison in Minsk, sentence to 5 years hard labour, deported to Sevzheldorlag, a penal labour Gulag camp, release on amnesty and journey to join and fight in WW2-Italy.
Tadeusz Marczak - Camp in Siberia and then Amnesty
Tadeusz describes the work they completed at the camp in Siberia, and the how they made their way out after ‘amnesty’.
Halina (Myszak) Babinska - Picking and selling berries
Halina describes how she would pick berries and then sell them in the nearest town, in order to earn money to buy some food for the family.
Halina (Myszak) Babinska - German settlement in N Kazakhstan
Halina describes the German settlement that was located near their village, where she would go to exchange some of their belongings for food.
Halina (Myszak) Babinska - 12 year old works at Kolkhoz
Halina describes the work she did, as a 12 year old, at the collective farm in Uzbekistan.
Stefan Waydenfeld - Relations between exiles and Russians
Janina (Szrodecka) Kwiatkowska - The Kyrgyzs
Dioniza (Gradzik) Choros - Conditions at the camp
Dioniza describes the work that the adults and the children did at the camp.
Czesław Zychowicz - Guarding the exiles
Dorota (Klausner) Leviner - Surgery in exile
Dorota (Klausner) Leviner - Relationships between soviet prisoners
Edmund Majewski - Majewski In gulag
Halina (Malasiewicz) Żywuszko - Kazakhstan conditions
NN. Szkopiak - Childrens’s life in exile
Ryszard Dembiński - Absurdal life in Russia