Maria (Załuska) Strońska - Patriotism
Describing how they felt as they were being deported, and how important the loss of one’s country is.
Władysława Kalinowska - Władysława Kalinowska
February 10th 1940. At midnight they came and took father away, and at 2 a.m. they came back and took us. We were not allowed to take anything with us. …
Irena Jabłońska - Deported to Kazakhstan
They were deported in the spring, and describes the train as having wooden benches at each end to sleep on, a hole in the floor for a toilet, and that …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Dantes Inferno on barges
Andrzej describes the scene on the barges that took them into the depth of Siberia, and compares it with Dante’s inferno.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Saved from going to Katyn
He was saved from being sent to Katyn with the other officers because a soldier he had known in Zakopane came up to him and told him to remove the …
Krystyna (Kuchcicka) Tomaszewicz - Drownings on Barges
Krystyna describes the 3 day trip on a barge and how many people drowned, since it was very crowded and there were no barriers to prevent them falling into the …
Henryka (Zalewska) Żukowska - Russian told them to take all
Henryka describes how a Russian soldier helped the family by telling them to bring as many things as possible. This helped them survive by having items to barter for food.
Henryka (Zalewska) Żukowska - Sister taken from the hospital
Describes the conditions on the train and how her sister’s condition worsened and she was taken from the train to a hospital.
Antoni Goleniowski - Memoir
A typed/condensed version of my Grandfather's original handwritten Memoir
Jan Kazmierow - The morning of deportation
Jan describes the Soviet soldiers smashing up pictures of Saints on the morning of deportation.
Jan Kazmierow - Dead Polish soldiers in deportation train
Jan describes seeing dead Polish soldiers in the open carriages after the train stopped during deportation.
Jan Kazmierow - Sister dying on the sledge
Jan describes his sister dying on the sledge on the way to the Russian camp.
Stefan Halamaj - Deported to USSR
Stefan describes the Soviet invasion, being recruited by the Soviets at school as a trade apprentice but then being deported in a wagon to the USSR.
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Polish deportees heading to southern USSR; Polish orphanage in Jangi Jul
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Transport conditions during Soviet deportation from Stanisławó
Stefan Centomirski - Stefan Centomirski
Ludwik Cytera - Written biography of Ludwik Cytera
This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.
JAKUBCZYK Sabina -
JAKUBCZYK Sabina -
Felicja Polkowska - Recordings made by the Imperial War Museum London.
Available on this web linkl : https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80016763 Object description Polish civilian teacher in Baranowicz, Poland, 9/1939-4/1940; deportation from Poland to Soviet Union, 4/1940-4/1943; inmate in Ashkhabad Prison, Turkmen Soviet Socialist …
Mark Gigiera - Biography of Mark Gigiera
Mark Gigiera's story of arrest, Work in Siberia ....