Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations
Autograph book of an exile (2)
One of the pages from inside the hand-made autograph book of Jerzy Prociuk, exiled to Kazakhstan 1940-45
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter to exile (2)
Back of letter from Katarzyna Prociuk's parents to Katarzyna who was exiled in Kazakhstan with her two young children Jerzy and Tomasz, 1940-1945. Note the Swastiska/Wermacht as the letter was mailed from German occupied territory.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter to exile (2)
Back of letter from Katarzyna Prociuk's parents to Katarzyna who was exiled in Kazakhstan with her two young children Jerzy and Tomasz, 1940-1945. Note the Swastiska/Wermacht as the letter was mailed from German occupied territory.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter to exile (1)
Letter from Katarzyna Prociuk's parents to Katarzyna who was exiled in Kazakhstan with her two young children Jerzy and Tomasz, 1940-1945
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter to exile (1)
Letter from Katarzyna Prociuk's parents to Katarzyna who was exiled in Kazakhstan with her two young children Jerzy and Tomasz, 1940-1945
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter from Polish POW to exiled wife (2)
Letter from Aleksander Prociuk (Captain in the 6th Pulk Strzelcow Podhalanskich), taken prisoner in the September 1939 campaign), POW Oflag, 11A, Camp 6 to his wife Katarzyna Prociuk who was deported to Kazakhstan 13 April 1940-1945 with their two sons. Katarzyna finally received the letter in Australia in 1974!
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter from Polish POW to exiled wife (2)
Letter from Aleksander Prociuk (Captain in the 6th Pulk Strzelcow Podhalanskich), taken prisoner in the September 1939 campaign), POW Oflag, 11A, Camp 6 to his wife Katarzyna Prociuk who was deported to Kazakhstan 13 April 1940-1945 with their two sons. Katarzyna finally received the letter in Australia in 1974!
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Katarzyna Prociuk and sons
Katarzyna Prociuk with sons Jerzy and Tomasz. They were deported to Kazakhstan 13 April 1940 and repatriated to Poland in 1945.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Poland
Hut in Kazakhstan
Hut where Katarzyna Prociuk and her sons lived 1940-45 Kustanaj, Kazakhstan
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Exile Permission note
Permission note from NKWD/Kolkhoz commandant for exile Katarzyna Prociuk to go to another village (possibly to pick up a parcel)
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Exile Permission note
Permission note from NKWD/Kolkhoz commandant for exile Katarzyna Prociuk to go to another village (possibly to pick up a parcel)
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Deportation arrest document (1)
"Protocol" document given to Katarzyna Prociuk by the NKWD when she was deported to Kazakhstan 13 April 1940. It includes a list of items taken. First page.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Deportation arrest document (1)
"Protocol" document given to Katarzyna Prociuk by the NKWD when she was deported to Kazakhstan 13 April 1940. It includes a list of items taken. First page.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Caricature
Caricature drawn for Jerzy Prociuk in Kazakhstan. The caption reads "Ciamajda" which translates to "slouch".
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Caricature
Caricature drawn for Jerzy Prociuk in Kazakhstan. The caption reads "Ciamajda" which translates to "slouch".
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Artefacts and items from exile
Artefacts and items, both presents and found, in Kazakhstan by the Prociuk family
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Artefacts and items from exile
Artefacts and items, both presents and found, in Kazakhstan by the Prociuk family
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Labour camp in Russia
Photo has come into Eugenia's possession from a collection that she inherited from a child who left the ship in Bombay on the journey to New Zealand.
Eugenia Smolnicka
During WWII
Soviet Union
Barrack in Siberia
Siberia barrack drawn by Jan Szewczuk (UK)
During WWII
Russia
Another burial
(Urals 1943) Drawing by Stanisław Kulon, "Z ziemi polskiej do Polski. Wspomnienia 1939-1958".
During WWII
Losing one family member after another
(Urals 1943) Drawing by Stanisław Kulon, "Z ziemi polskiej do Polski. Wspomnienia 1939-1958".
During WWII
Clearing the forest
(Urals 1943) Drawing by Stanisław Kulon, "Z ziemi polskiej do Polski. Wspomnienia 1939-1958"
During WWII
Deportation train
(Urals 1943) Drawing by Stanisław Kulon, "Z ziemi polskiej do Polski. Wspomnienia 1939-1958".
During WWII
Urals 1943
Drawing by Stanisław Kulon, "Z ziemi polskiej do Polski. Wspomnienia 1939-1958".
During WWII
Semipaltinsk in 1941
Semipaltinsk in 1941
Kazakhstan
Semipaltinsk
Home of Pacewicz family, Równe
Home of PP Jan Pacewicz, wife Julia Pacewicz and children Józef, Jadwiga and Władysław Rowne, Ul Dworecka 29/1, from where Julia, Jadwiga and Władysław were deported from on the 13th April 1940 to Kazkahstan.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Ukraine
Rivne
USSR Railway Map – Kazakhstan – 1941
Shows the railway network across Kazakhstan in 1941. Along the top is Petropavlovsk on the Omsk line. This would most likely have been the route my family would have taken. The nearest big city to their place of forced labour was Petropavlovsk.
During WWII
Russia
USSR Railway Map – Kazakhstan – 1941
Shows the railway network across Kazakhstan in 1941. Along the top is Petropavlovsk on the Omsk line. This would most likely have been the route my family would have taken. The nearest big city to their place of forced labour was Petropavlovsk.
During WWII
Russia
USSR Railway Map – Kazakhstan – 1941
Shows the railway network across the Kazakhstan in 1941. Akmolinsk is the central junction. Petropavlovsk, at the very top, would have been the nearest main station to the place of my family's deportation and forced labour.
During WWII
Russia
USSR Railway Map 1941
Shows the railway network across the whole of the USSR in 1941
During WWII
Russia