Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations
Kresy Siberia Team at the Monument to the fallen and murdered in the East
Kresy Siberia Team at the Monument to the fallen and murdered in the East
Poland
Warsaw
Hersz Krajdstejn
During WWII
Soviet Union
Dziurma
Dziurma the cargo ship that transported my father to hell!
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
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Rare map of the Kolyma camps from Anatol Krakowiecki's KSIAZKA o KOLYMIE, Veritas, London 1950. My father met the author at Magadan. And later after the war provided the next photo of the cemetery for his book.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
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In Siberia at Kolyma cemetary. My father is crouching left of the grave marker. This photo was taken in 1942. After the "Amnesty" of 1941, prisoners were given better clothing and food rations were increased in an attempt to coverup abuse and mistreatment in the labor camps.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
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My father standing center row, third from left. Photo taken at Magadan in Siberia 1942 after the "Amnesty".
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
Magadan
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Another photo taken after the "Amnesty" in Magadan USSR.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
Magadan
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My father worked as a "busboy" after the "Amnesty" at a "stolowka", (restaurant) in Magadan. He is standing second from the left top row.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
Magadan
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Reverse of the prior photo, the restaurant staff at Magadan. Some of the names are still reable.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Russia
Magadan
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Map of the dispersion of Poles from Kresy into the world's largest prison.
Ron Aksonowicz
During WWII
Poland
Child’s drawing after amnesty
Child’s drawing after amnesty - Drawn by Danuta Maczka, 19 Nov 1941.
Elzunia Olsson
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Deportation wagon
Deportation wagon - Drawn by Stefan Maczka
Elzunia Olsson
During WWII
Russia
Plan of Monastyriok Camp
Plan of Monastyriok Camp - Drawn by Stefan Maczka
Elzunia Olsson
During WWII
Russia
Scene on a deportation train
Scene on a deportation train - Drawn by m. Kuczynski
During WWII
Grave of Zieniewicz Zdzislaw
Original drawing by Eleonora Zieniewicz, age 31, deported with her six year old son Zdzislaw (Zdzisio), from the Poddebowe Forest Ranger's Lodge (near Czuczewicze, Pow. Luniniec, Woj. Polesie) to the Vologda Oblast of the USSR. On Mar. 25, 1940 her husband Wlodzimierz, a forest ranger, disappeared in Russia - never to be seen again. This drawing is the only remainder of their son, left behind in a Soviet cemetery. He died of cold and starvation, only a few months after being deported.
Eleonora Zieniewicz
During WWII
Siberia forest center and train
Siberia forest center and train - by Telesfor Sobierajski
Sibberian Work Camp
Sibberian Work Camp - by Telesfor Sobierajski
Soviet labour camp scene
Soviet labour camp scene - unknown artist
Soviet Deportation train
Soviet Deportation train - unknown artist
Soviet Deportation train
Soviet Deportation train - unknown artist
Soviet Deportation train
Soviet Deportation train - artist unknown
Soviet Deportation train
Soviet Deportation train - artist unknown
Odpoczynek mamy, 1942
Mother at rest in the "ziemianka" (earthen hut), Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Spinning red train wheel
Spinning red train wheel - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Gulag
Gulag - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Black sun of Katyn
Black sun of Katyn - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
A mother’s silent tears
A mother’s silent tears - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Siberian Madona
Siberian Madona - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Road to Siberian work camp
Road to Siberian work camp - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII
Requiem in Siberia
Requiem in Siberia - Centomirski Copyright
Stefan Centomirski
During WWII