Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

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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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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: 648400
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc24

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc24 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648401
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc28

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc28 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648402
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc29

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc29 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648403
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc30

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc30 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648404
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc33

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc33 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648405
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc34

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc34 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648391
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc3

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc3 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648392
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc16

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc16 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648393
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc17

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc17 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648394
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc18

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc18 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648395
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc19

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc19 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648396
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc20

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc20 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648397
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc21

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc21 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648398
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc22

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc22 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648399
Title:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc23

Description:

Sprawiedliwość Soviecka_Ryc23 - public domain

Source:

Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, by S Mora and P Zwierniek, Włochy 1945

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648493
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 11

Description:

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.

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648494
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 12

Description:

The majority of deportes, over 1000, worked as tree fellers for very poor money and even poorer food.

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648481
Title:

Cattle cars to Siberia

Description:

Cattle cars to Siberia

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648482
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 8

Description:

Drawing of workers in the Siberian forest. Telesfor's story can be read in "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648483
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 1

Description:

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".

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648485
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 3

Description:

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.

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648486
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 4

Description:

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!

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648487
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 5

Description:

They travelled for over 2 weeks through Kiev, Moscow and Gorkiy

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648488
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 6

Description:

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.

Source:

Janusz Skarzyński

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 648489
Title:

Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 7

Description:

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.

Source:

Telesfor Sobierajski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

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