Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

Child’s drawing after amnesty - Drawn by Danuta Maczka, 19 Nov 1941.

Elzunia Olsson

During WWII

Uzbekistan

Map of the dispersion of Poles from Kresy into the world's largest prison.

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

Poland

Reverse of the prior photo, the restaurant staff at Magadan. Some of the names are still reable.

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

Russia

Magadan

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

Another photo taken after the "Amnesty" in Magadan USSR.

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

Russia

Magadan

My father standing center row, third from left. Photo taken at Magadan in Siberia 1942 after the "Amnesty".

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

Russia

Magadan

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

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

Dziurma the cargo ship that transported my father to hell!

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

During WWII

Soviet Union

Kresy Siberia Team at the Monument to the fallen and murdered in the East

Poland

Warsaw