Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

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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: 648516
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Hunger

Description:

Illustration depicting the hunger of the deportees.

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 648517
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Candle in window

Description:

Illustration showing a candle in the window

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 648505
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Deportation

Description:

Nightmare of 13th April 1940 - two Soviet soldiers with bayonets wake the family, on Friday 13th April 1940 at 2:00 am

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648512
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Cart

Description:

Illustration showing deportees being transported to their place of exile in the USSR

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 648513
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work

Description:

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.

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 648515
Title:

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Out of box cars

Description:

Illustration showing the deportees waiting outside the cargo wagons

Source:

Alicja Edwards

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 649831
Title:

Jerzy + Maria Kozak - 1939

Description:

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

Source:

private

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Krynica

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Photo ID: 958228
Title:

1941 Darovatka - Jerzy Kozak and his grandfather

Description:

1941 Jerzy Kozak and his grandfather (Joachim not sure) in Darovatka. Same man is in the next group photo with Maria + Zenobiusz. Same plank/board pattern, in both photos, likely taken same time. Deported from Sarkowka on Feb 10, 1940

Inscription on photo bottom right - “exile”

Source:

Personal collection

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 958230
Title:

1941 - Kozak family in Darovotka

Description:

1941 - Kozak family in Darovotka - Maria top middle, Zenobiusz bottom right. Likely grandfather (Joachim not sure) bottom left. Same plank/board pattern, in both photos, likely taken same time. Deported from Sarkowka on Feb 10, 1940. Photo taken before release on November 22, 1941.

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

City/Town/Village:

Darovatka

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Photo ID: 948143
Title:

Camps (letters VAL to YAG)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948127
Title:

Map of camps in Asian USSR

Description:

Map of camps in Asian USSR. ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948128
Title:

Map of camps in European USSR

Description:

Map of camps in European USSR. ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948145
Title:

Camps (letters YEN to ZAK)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948129
Title:

Camps (letters ABS to BEZ)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948130
Title:

Camps (letters BOL to IGA)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948132
Title:

Camps (letters ING to LEN)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948134
Title:

Camps (letters LEN to NIK)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948136
Title:

Camps (letters NIZ to PET)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948138
Title:

Camps (letters PIO to SEV)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 948140
Title:

Camps (letters SHA to TAI)

Description:

List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Russia

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Photo ID: 949840
Title:

After the USSR

Description:

Aniela Siomkajlo (in Teheran, or Africa?)

Source:

Krystyna Szypowska

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 951449
Title:

Polish Siberian deportees

Description:

Polish Siberian deportees sentenced to slave labour in the USSR - Czesław is first on the left. Photo taken in 1940.

Source:

Barbara Ryszkowska

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Russia

City/Town/Village:

Stiepanówka, Urals

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Photo ID: 955578
Title:

modlitewnik

Description:

modlitewnik

Source:

Zofia Helwing

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie

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Photo ID: 955579
Title:

modlitewnik

Description:

modlitewnik

Source:

Zofia Helwing

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie

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Photo ID: 955580
Title:

modlitewnik

Description:

modlitewnik

Source:

Zofia Helwing

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie

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Photo ID: 955581
Title:

modlitewnik

Description:

modlitewnik

Source:

Zofia Helwing

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie

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Photo ID: 956489
Title:

Joanna Brodniewicz and friends, in Kazakhstan

Description:

Joanna Brodniewicz and friends, in Kazakhstan

Source:

Joanna Brodniewicz

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Kazakhstan

City/Town/Village:

Sovhoz Karakol, Semipolatinsk

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Photo ID: 956999
Title:

Article about Tadeusz Jan Kazimierz Borkowski, pg 1

Description:

Written by his daughter and his wife, describing his experiences during WWII.

Source:

Ewa Mikusinski

Time Period:

After WWII

Related Military Service:

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

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