Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations
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
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
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Out of box cars
Illustration showing the deportees waiting outside the cargo wagons
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Hunger
Illustration depicting the hunger of the deportees.
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Candle in window
Illustration showing a candle in the window
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Jerzy + Maria Kozak - 1939
Krynica, Sanatorium Nowy Dom Zdrojowy - Built 1939 One of first Modernist buildings
1939 – Jerzy 6 + Maria 37
private
Before WWII
Poland
Krynica
1941 - Kozak family in Darovotka
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.
During WWII
Russia
Darovatka
1941 Darovatka - Jerzy Kozak and his grandfather
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”
Personal collection
During WWII
Camps (letters ING to LEN)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters LEN to NIK)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters NIZ to PET)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters PIO to SEV)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters SHA to TAI)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters VAL to YAG)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Map of camps in Asian USSR
Map of camps in Asian USSR. ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Map of camps in European USSR
Map of camps in European USSR. ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters YEN to ZAK)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters ABS to BEZ)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
Camps (letters BOL to IGA)
List of labour camps: ‘Forced Labour in Soviet Russia’ by David J Dallin & Boris Nicolaevsky, 1948.
After WWII
Russia
After the USSR
Aniela Siomkajlo (in Teheran, or Africa?)
Krystyna Szypowska
During WWII
Polish Siberian deportees
Polish Siberian deportees sentenced to slave labour in the USSR - Czesław is first on the left. Photo taken in 1940.
Barbara Ryszkowska
During WWII
Russia
Stiepanówka, Urals
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Zofia Helwing
Poland
Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie
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Zofia Helwing
Poland
Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie
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Zofia Helwing
Poland
Warszawa, warszawski, Warszawskie