Ryszard Dembiński - Kazakhs vs Russians
Wanda (Jabłońska) Gillon - Cooking and food provisions
Wanda describes the stove in the center of the barrack that was used for cooking, and the rotten vegetables they would be given.
Franciszka (Walukiewicz) Błażewicz - Bears in Taiga
Elzbieta (Komar) Watrach - Mother was jailed
Describing how her mother went to the town to sell their belongings, and was arrested and jailed on her return.
Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Youth keeps up their morale
Describing how the younger deportees at the camp remained hopeful that they would one day make it out of there.
Bernarda (Karbowa) Andrejczuk - How were the Russians in Siberia
Bernarda describes how the Russian people who preceded them to the camp, and were still stuck there, were in the same situation as they were – sometimes their conditions were …
Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Building a brick wall from snow
Explaining how the collective farm was 50 km from the Chinese border, with very harsh winters, and the Poles were forced to make bricks from the snow and build a …
Leszek Makiewicz - Fate of his father
Describing his father’s arrest, deportation to Murmansk, and his eventual death there.
- Death of her sister
Describing how her sister fell in the river, then was forced to work in wet clothing, developed pneumonia and died a week later.
Maria (Załuska) Strońska - Saved drowning girl in Siberia
Describing how she saved a girl named Wanda from drowning in the river in Siberia.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Murdered by Typhoid
Andrzej shows a drawing by Alicja Edwards and explains how this drawing epitomizes for him the entire experience of the deportation. He then reads a text about the death of …
Kazimierz Karwowski - Describes WC and bath house
Kazimierz describes the amenities in the camp.
Krystyna (Kuchcicka) Tomaszewicz - Mother worked on ice rails
Krystyna describes the work her mother did during the winter – maintaining the ice rails that were used to slide the wood out of the forest.
Stanisław Lasek - Home Schooling at the Camp
Stan explains how only the children of the camp staff were sent to school. Consequently, the women got together and started a home schooling program for the Polish children. They …
Jan Kazmierow - Sneaking loaves of bread
Jan describes how they managed to sneak loaves of bread after his brother is assigned to a delivery job during forced labour in the USSR.
Ludwik Cytera - Written biography of Ludwik Cytera
This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.
Ludwik Karol Pisarski - My Story of the War, 1939 to 1945
– From Lwów, to the Siberian Gulag, Monte Cassino, Loreto and Lago di Como. In his own words, my father describes the outbreak of WW2 and his arrest by the …
Felicja Polkowska - Recordings made by the Imperial War Museum London.
Available on this web linkl : https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80016763 Object description Polish civilian teacher in Baranowicz, Poland, 9/1939-4/1940; deportation from Poland to Soviet Union, 4/1940-4/1943; inmate in Ashkhabad Prison, Turkmen Soviet Socialist …
Mark Gigiera - Biography of Mark Gigiera
Mark Gigiera's story of arrest, Work in Siberia ....