Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

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Photo ID: 614542
Title:

Exiled in Siberia

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Exiled in Siberia - Centomirski Copyright

Source:

Stefan Centomirski

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 614786
Title:

Eszelons in Siberia

Description:

Eszelons in Siberia - Centomirski Copyright

Source:

Stefan Centomirski

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 615257
Title:

Polaków na Syberię!

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Stefan Centomirski Sybirak, “Polaków na Syberię!”, 1986 tech.miesz., metal, kolaż, 160×360 www.steff25.webd.pl/?p=122. "Rok 1936. Droga do syberyjskiego piekła. W kilka godzin, Polakom z naszej wioski kazano porzucić ich domy i skarb i wziąć tylko rzeczy potrzebne na co dzień. Zapakowano nas w bydlęce wagony i pociąg powiózł nie wiadomo dokąd. Na oknach pod sufitem wagonu był drut kolczasty. Dzień i noc w uszach stukot kół. Ta muzyka wraca do mnie nie raz, nawet teraz. Stukot kół pociągu brzmi w uszach jak rekwiem Mozarta dla zaginionych w bydlęcych wagonach, a ciemność wnętrza wagonu, przypomina mi Rembrandtowską tragiczność otaczającą jego obrazy. Cały czas myślałem jak wykonać obraz w hołdzie bohaterom tego więzienia na kołach. Prawda w życiu i w sztuce różni się. W filmie w dwie godziny można zobaczyć całe życie bohaterów, a na paru metrach płótna, można przekazać całą treść wydarzeń z pociągu. Bo jeżeli opowiedzieć o wszystkich wywózkach – głodzie w drodze, chorobach, śmierci młodych i starych, to opowieść zajęłaby całą książkę, a w malarstwie – całą serię obrazów. Tego wagonu pociągu nigdy nie mogłem zapomnieć. On męczył mnie przez 50 lat. Wreszcie w 1986 r postanowiłem: muszę go namalować i wyrzucić to z siebie. Tylko jak to zrobić, żeby forma była odpowiednia dla tej treści? Wymyśliłem, aby ten wagon zrobić duży, ok. 4 metrów długości i ponad 2 szerokości. Wziąłem deski i ułożyłem relief, po bokach wyciąłem okna i przybiłem je do tła – dużych sklejek, a środek wagonu zostawiłem otwarty dla krat. Narysowałem węglem postacie, przykleiłem im łachy, a już potem nastał czas dla malarstwa. Po przygotowaniu płótna przez kolaż i faktury. Największa uwaga skupia się na centrum kompozycji, gdzie znajdują się postacie zesłańców. Sam wagon to symbol dużego transportu, a to co w środku, zmarłe dzieci, płaczące i modlące się kobiety, to fragment tego co było w drodze, też i w innych wagonach pociągu. Żeby pokazać częstotliwość tych tragicznych wysyłek na Syberię, namalowałem rozrzucone pod wagonem czaszki. Droga po kościach to symbol wywózek i w ogóle tych czasów."

Source:

Stefan Centomirski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 641444
Title:

Nikolai Getman

Description:

Former prisoner of the Gulag, who painted many of the scenes of life there.

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 641445
Title:

Working in a gold mine

Description:

Working in a gold mine - painting by Nikolai Getman

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 641446
Title:

Women Prisoners

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Women prisoners - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 641447
Title:

Waiting to be shot

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Waiting to be shot - Painting by Nikolai Getman

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Russia

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Photo ID: 641448
Title:

Uncovered trucks

Description:

Uncovered trucks - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644141
Title:

Prisoners eating

Description:

Prisoners eating - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644142
Title:

Off the train

Description:

Off the train - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644143
Title:

Burial in Permafrost

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Burial in Permafrost - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644144
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Abandoned work camp

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Abandoned work camp - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644145
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Dogs at a camp

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Dogs at a camp - Painting by Nikolai Getman

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Russia

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Photo ID: 644304
Title:

Dead Man’s Bread Ration

Description:

Dead Man’s Bread Ration - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 644674
Title:

Siberian Work Camp

Description:

Siberian Work Camp - Painting by Nikolai Getman

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 645449
Title:

Siberian Camp UDACZNA GORA

Description:

Siberian Camp UDACZNA GORA - Document found online by Stan Zawierzynski of Moscow.

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 645943
Title:

Siberian Camp TOPOROK

Description:

Siberian Camp TOPOROK - Document found online by Stan Zawierzynski of Moscow.

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 646282
Title:

Posiolek Zolotaja Gora

Description:

Posiolek Zolotaja Gora - Document found online by Stan Zawierzynski of Moscow.

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 646667
Title:

Gulags in Middle Siberia

Description:

Gulags in Middle Siberia - Document showing where the Gulags were located during the 1940s - drawings found online by Stan Zawierzynski of Moscow.

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648355
Title:

Drawing of Life in Archangielsk

Description:

Rozalia was deported, to Archangielsk, Siberia. In the upper left, people cut logs under an armed guard. Rozalia, at age 15, is driving some logs by horse through the woods. A woman cooks over an open fire - not soup, but clothing, to get rid of lice. On the right is the cemetery, where one of her brothers was buried. At the bottom, the train arriving, and the people setting out on the 300km, walk to the camp under armed guards.

Source:

Rozalia Wolczyk (Gawor)

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

City/Town/Village:

Archangielsk

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Photo ID: 648373
Title:

Deportees from a Polish town are herded into cattle wagons by the NKVD

Description:

Deportees from a Polish town are herded into cattle wagons by the NKVD

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648374
Title:

Deportation of a family from their home by the Bolsheviks

Description:

Deportation of a family from their home by the Bolsheviks

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648375
Title:

Levelling of land for Soviet military operations by “lagiernikow” (gulag prisoners) in northern Russia

Description:

Levelling of land for Soviet military operations by “lagiernikow” (gulag prisoners) in northern Russia

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648376
Title:

Inmates are given delousing treatment and a bath

Description:

Inmates are given delousing treatment and a bath

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648377
Title:

Conditions inside the barracks of a northern Soviet labour camp

Description:

Conditions inside the barracks of a northern Soviet labour camp

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648378
Title:

Soviet officers doing a roll call of inmates at a Bolshevik holding prison in northern Russia

Description:

Soviet officers doing a roll call of inmates at a Bolshevik holding prison in northern Russia

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648379
Title:

Loading timber onto barges in north Russia

Description:

Loading timber onto barges in north Russia

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648380
Title:

Recalcitrant workers are interrogated by the Commander of a labour camp (gulag)

Description:

Recalcitrant workers are interrogated by the Commander of a labour camp (gulag)

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648381
Title:

Inmates of the labour camp queue for provisions

Description:

Inmates of the labour camp queue for provisions

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648382
Title:

Polish deportees build a timber road over marsh land.

Description:

Polish deportees build a timber road over marsh land.

Source:

The Sikorski Polish Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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