Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc3
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc3 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc16
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc16 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc17
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc17 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc18
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc18 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc19
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc19 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc20
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc20 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc21
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc21 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc22
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc22 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc23
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc23 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc24
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc24 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc28
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc28 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc29
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc29 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc30
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc30 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc33
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc33 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc34
Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc34 - public domain
Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945
During WWII
Poland
Cattle cars to Siberia
Cattle cars to Siberia
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 8
Drawing of workers in the Siberian forest. Telesfor's story can be read in "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 1
The illustrations in the book were drawn by Telesfor Sobierajski and the texts are taken from his own story, one of many included in "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Poland
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 3
Telesfor was 14 when he was deported in Feb/March 1940. He had been away at school in Pinsk when his family was taken on 10th Feb. He was taken to Rowne, first to a large synagogue full of people, mostly women and children. They were guarded by a sheepskin-clad Soviet soldier who wore a strange pointed cap and held a rifle fixed with a long thin bayonet.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Poland
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 4
A few days later they were loaded into cattle trucks with wooden bunks on both sides of the door, an iron stove in the centre and with a hole cut into the floor to serve as a toilet. 50 people were squashed into this wagon!
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 5
They travelled for over 2 weeks through Kiev, Moscow and Gorkiy
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 6
From the wagon they looked out in terror at a tall wooden fenced enclosure with an observation tower at each corner. The palisade itself was formed from sharp-pointed posts each 3 metres in height! Telesfor was devasted to find out that none of his family members were here.
Janusz Skarzyński
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 7
He spent the summer working at the camp and in September received permission to travel to Archangel and then to Kotlas to join his family. He travelled by train and then by boat on the River Dvina. After Christmas he had to complete his journey by foot.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 9
Journey through Taiga to Posiolek Vitunino, Archangel Province, 1941
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 10
There was deep snow and it was very cold. He was only wearing thin clothes so after a few days he had a temperature and noticed that he'd lost the soles of his shoes and his toes were numb with frost!
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 11
Eventually he reached posiolek Vitunino and was overjoyed when he found his family. They lived in a room, about 6m x 4m, which they shared with 2 other families. Each room had a brick stove for heating and cooking. Along the walls were bunk beds on which people sat. slept and ate.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 12
The majority of deportes, over 1000, worked as tree fellers for very poor money and even poorer food.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Russia
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Deportation
Nightmare of 13th April 1940 - two Soviet soldiers with bayonets wake the family, on Friday 13th April 1940 at 2:00 am
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Poland
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Cart
Illustration showing deportees being transported to their place of exile in the USSR
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Alicja R Edwards Art Work
Painting by Alicja R. Edwards, showing the preparation of a number of cargo trains that will be used by the Soviets to transport Polish people from the Eastern Borderlands to Siberia.
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Poland