Maria (Malicka) Wysoczańska - Kazakhstan
Ryszard Liebeskind - Drama of Poles
NN. Szkopiak - Childrens’s life in exile
Franciszka (Walukiewicz) Błażewicz - Escaping NKVD
Franciszka (Walukiewicz) Błażewicz - Bears in Taiga
Waleria (Błażewicz) Kuczyńska - Children’s memories pt.3 – back from the USSR
Waleria (Błażewicz) Kuczyńska - Children’s memories – soviet preschool
Waleria (Błażewicz) Kuczyńska - Siberia in children’s eyes pt.1
Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Propganda photos of joyful deportees
Describing how staged photos of the deportees were taken by the Soviets, for propaganda reasons.
Władysław Niezgoda - Life with Belorussians up to the deportation
Describing how the Poles and Belorussians co-existed in that area, then the Russian invasion and the day of deportation.
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel - Czesława (Moniak) Krygiel
Agnieszka (Mysliwa) Smolinska - Gave birth on the train
Agnieszka recounts how she gave birth to her daughter on the 4th day on the train – on 14 February 1940 – while the train was still on the Polish …
Teresa (Pyrska) Kosierb - Constant hunger
Describing the life-long effects that the constant hunger of her youth had on her life.
Stanislawa Teresa (Jakubowska) Pawlik - Life in Zytygara
Describing the conditions of life in this northern part of Kazakhstan.
Ryszard Krzysztofiak - Aunt takes 2 of them
Describes how the 5 children were loaded into the cargo wagon with their mother, but their aunt argued with the Soviet guards, saying that the 2 eldest were her children, …
Wieslaw Adamowicz - Uncle Ludwik dies
Describing how his uncle was crushed by a falling tree, and died later that same day, after his brother had carried him home. He may have survived, had there been …
Jadwiga Bukowinski - Friend brought trunk to train
Describing how a neighbour found them on the train and brought a trunk full of goods to them.
Zofia (Cybulska) Adamowicz - Help from Jewish man
Describing how a Jewish neighbour found them in the cattle wagon and came to bring assistance to her mother.
Zofia (Cybulska) Adamowicz - Help from Russian soldier
Describing how a Russian soldier and his daughter helped them survive in Siberia.
Joanna (Milko) Grzanka - Poem
Reading her favourite poem about the deportations to Kazakhstan.