Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

Illustration showing the deportees waiting outside the cargo wagons

Alicja Edwards

During WWII

Illustration depicting the hunger of the deportees.

Alicja Edwards

During WWII

Illustration showing a candle in the window

Alicja Edwards

During WWII

Drawing and Description of Posiolek 45 in USSR

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia

Map of route TO and OUT OF the USSR - The journey of the Stelmach family

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia

Drawing of Antoni Stelmach - Drawing made by a fellow prisoner in the Soviet camp.

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. After deportation nobody in Lwow knew where they had been deported to. This telegram identified their address. It was sent to Marys Bielska - wife of their son Adam Bielski. Adam escaped from Lwow to Hungry and fought in the Polish Army, first in France and then in the UK.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 2 of a 2 page letter from Eleanor. The handwritten portion of the typed letter is signed by "Gusia" (Eleanor's daughter, Jadwiga), saying that the typed text was transcribed from a letter handwritten by her moth.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 2 of a 2 page handwritten letter from Eleanor back to a friend still in Lwow. It refers a "Gusia" (her daughter Jadwiga) and children (Jerzy Krasicki and his brother).

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 1 of a 2 page letter from Eleanor. The handwritten portion of the typed letter is signed by "Gusia" (Eleanor's daughter, Jadwiga), saying that the typed text was transcribed from a letter handwritten by her moth.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 1 of a 2 page handwritten letter from Eleanor back to a friend still in Lwow. It refers a "Gusia" (her daughter Jadwiga) and children (Jerzy Krasicki and his brother).

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This drawing of "ferma Michajlowka, Palatinskaja Oblast" was drawn by, and sent with a letter from, Eleanor back to Lwow. This is where Eleanor and Juliusz lived during their exile.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

This is believed to be the camp in Siberia, where Mieczyslaw had been imprisoned. Does anyone recognize this location?

Lindsey Culver

During WWII

Krynica, Sanatorium Nowy Dom Zdrojowy - Built 1939 One of first Modernist buildings
1939 – Jerzy 6 + Maria 37

private

Before WWII

Poland

Krynica

With the porcelain doll and carriage that the family had brought from Poland.

Daniela Toth

During WWII

Russia

My Grandmother shortly before her death in Uzbekistan after her release from Siberia. My Grandfather glued this tiny photo (passport size) on the back of the piece of paper with the previous photo. My mother told me he carried this with him all his life. My Grandmother died in Uzbekistan.

Danielle Augustyn Meyer

During WWII

Scanned photo of Uzbek huts

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Uzbekistan

Karasu

My Mother's last letter to Father via Red Cross. 2.4.1942 from Teheran to Karasu in Uzbekistan.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Iran

Teheran

Telegram from Father, sending 450 rubels.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Postcard from my mother to my father. Sent from Russia, in Russian.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Russia

Written account of deportation to Kazakhstan by Maria Stefan, Łancut and sent to Kresy-Siberia by Tadeusz Szymczakiewicz who wrote, "Rok temu zmarła moja znajoma Maria Stefan z Łańcuta .Rodzina z Szczecina odnalazła jej rękopis który skserowałem a oni mają oryginał. Przesyłam Panu jej ,,Wspomnienia z Kazachstanu".

Tadeusz Szymczakiewicz

After WWII

Poland

Łancut

Table listing settlements and deportees (from Ambassador Tadeusz Romer list) and Google map co-ordinates of Aktjubinsk region in Kazakhstan. This is the automated Microsoft Word translation from Russian to English. For the maps with co-ordinates please refer to the original Russian document in this collection.

Stanislaw Zwierzynski

During WWII

Russia

Aktjubinsk

Document listing settlements and deportees (from Ambassador Tadeusz Romer list) and Google map co-ordaintes of Aktjubinsk region in Kazakhstan. Original Russian version.

Stanislaw Zwierzynski

During WWII

Russia

Aktjubinsk

This collection shows the places of deportation to Kazakhstan, based on the Tadeusz Romer list of Polish deportees.

During WWII

Table listing settlements and deportees (from Ambassador Tadeusz Romer list) and google map co-ordaintes of Akmolinsk region in Kazakhstan. This is the Microsoft Word translation from Russian to English.

Stanislaw Zwierzynski

During WWII

Russia

Akmolinsk

Document listing settlements and deportees (from Ambassador Tadeusz Romer list) and google map co-ordaintes of Akmolinsk region in Kazakhstan.

Stanislaw Zwierzynski

During WWII

Russia

Akmolinsk

In June 1940, whilst living in Lwow, Edward was arrested by the NKVD and deported to a Gulag near Rybinsk in Russia.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

During WWII

Poland

Lwow

Marian in Siberia, 1940

Edwarda Fijal

During WWII

Russia

Marian Fijal on left, Edwarda Szczygiel 3rd from left, 27 VII 1941

Edwarda Fijal

During WWII

Little diary that Frank Kustra kept from deportation until arriving in Australia - he smuggled it out of USSR

Frank Kustra

During WWII