
Polish leaflet "To the local nation" ("To the local population") during the Polish-Soviet war 1919-1920

Certificate from the Archives of the State Security Committee in Brest Oblast (USSR) regarding the former soldier of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, Nikifor Gryszkowiec, who returned to the Belarusian SSR after the war, and in 1947 was arrested on the basis of fictitious charges, accused of espionage for British intelligence and as a result sentenced to 25 years in prison

Certificate issued by the USSR Ministry of the Interior regarding Paweł Kozel - a former soldier of the Polish Armed Forces, June 1958

Letter of the Head of the Revacuation Department at the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR to the Head of the Repatriation Department at the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR regarding the admission of former "Andersians", May 5, 1947

Aleksander Dorapijewicz (first from the left) during the post-war exile into the USSR, Czeremchowo, 1953

The tomb of Piotr Szwedziuk, who died as a result of his injuries on August 14, 1944, was buried in one of the war cemeteries in France

A fragment of Aleksy Światoszczyk's diary, in which he wrote about the details of his experiences almost every day - from the moment he was captured by the Allies in France until he was incorporated into the 2nd Polish Corps

Aleksy Światoszczyk from Pinsk - forcibly conscripted into the Belarusian police subordinate to Germany, to join the Polish Armed Forces from the beginning of 1945 and fight in Italy as a shooter of the 4th battalion of the Carpathian Rifle Division; there he died in Bologna on May 13, 1946

The rifleman of the 2nd mechanized commando battalion, Aleksander Doropijewicz, who traveled a long way to the Polish ranks - before joining the army, he served in the Soviet 83 Independent Marine Brigade, participated in the defense of the Caucasus and German captivity

Form with a request to change nationality from Polish to Belarusian, intended for the command of the Polish Resettlement and Deployment Corps

The first page of the first issue of the magazine of the Association of Belarusians (former soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps) in Great Britain "Na Szlaku", illegally printed at the office of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division

Belarusian priests of the Greek Catholic rite Czesław Sipowicz (on the right) and Lew Horoszko among the soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps, Rome, November 3, 1945

Stefan Rudź - a soldier of the 2nd Polish Corps, previously sent deep into the USSR, and after the "amnesty" of August 12, 1941, he was a volunteer in Anders' army, with which he got out of the "inhuman land", in order to find his nephew Maksym in Polish formations

Maksym Rudź - a soldier of the 2nd Polish Corps, who previously survived the German occupation in the country, was a sergeant of the Belarusian National Defense (in German service) and was taken into Allied captivity in France, and during his service in the 2nd Polish Corps he met with his uncle Stefan Rudziem

Former German prisoners of Belarusian nationality during service in the 2nd Polish Corps; in the first row from the left: Paweł Nawaro, Aleksander Liebiedź, Wiktor Sieńkiewicz; in the second row from the left: Mikołaj Gochowicz, Michał Jaskiewicz, Mikołaj Koleśnikiewicz, Henryk Sieńkiewicz;
Italy, 1945

Jan Michaluk from the 2nd Warsaw Armored Division - an outstanding Belarusian activist in exile after the war

Fr. Czesław Sipowicz, head of the Belarusian Catholic Mission in London with a soldier of the 2nd Polish Corps

Soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps (from the left): Teodor Mazura, Teodor Ciemofiejczyk, Maksym Rudź, Włodzimierz Kuryło,
Olesano (Italy), May 7, 1945

Mikołaj Moroz of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division - seriously wounded during the Battle of Monte Cassino, died in England in 1949

Józef Żamojdzin from the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division (on the right), after the war he returned to Belarus and was subjected to repressions, in the 1990s he was active in the Association of Victims of Political Repression

Teodor Korżewicz - shooter of the 4th armored regiment "Scorpions" - on a gendarmerie course, Italy, 1945

Rifleman of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division Wiktor Sieńkiewicz demonstrating his nationality under the Lithuanian and Belarusian "Pogoń", Modena (Italy), 1946

Jerzy Wiesiołkowski and Paweł Nawaro while serving in the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division (then only 18 years old), Italy, 1945

Records of corporal of the 9th light artillery regiment of Piotr Koniuch, who after the war became an active participant in the Belarusian national movement in exile, while during his service in the Polish Army, he named Polish nationality as his own

Michał and Sawa Szwedziuk - son and father; after leaving the "inhuman land", the son volunteered to the Cadet School and spent the entire war in Palestine, while his father fought in Italy as a soldier of the 2nd Polish Corps

Corporal of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Wiaczesław Guzowiako during his stay in Italy; he belonged to the Italian Communist Party

One of the heroes of the fights in Italy - senior rifleman of the 4th battalion of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, Dymitr Przybołowiec

Sergeant of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division Grzegorz Piwowarczyk, died in London on December 18, 1993

Corporal of the 17th battalion of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Michał Łaman - participant in the defensive war of Poland in 1939 and the Italian campaign

Former corporal of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Mikołaj Buter near Wilejka (in the Vilnius region) - after the war president of the Polish Combatants' Union in Sarny

Former participants of the Battle of Monte Cassino - veterans from Poland and Belarus during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle (the first since
Konstanty Niewiadomski from Polesie is standing on the right), Italy, 1994

The card of the Cross of Valor given posthumously to the corporal of the 13th battalion of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division to Jan Kułak

The grave of the platoon of the 3rd anti-tank artillery regiment of Arkadiusz Korżewicz (honored with the Order of Virtuti Militari, who died on November 22, 1944) at the Bologna cemetery

The grave of a soldier of the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, Aleksander Dziemidowicz (who died on May 12, 1944) in the Monte Cassino commentary

Orthodox graves at the Monte Cassino cemetery - visible evidence of the presence of Belarusians among the soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps who died here

Soldiers of the Polish Army in the East (Teodor Żygiel is kneeling from the Dzisno poviat), Middle East, 1943

Soldiers of the Polish Army in Soviet captivity, a POW camp in Kryvyi Rih (in the center, a resident of the Polesie province, Bazyli Byszko)

Letter of Belarusian prisoners of war imprisoned in the Kozielszczyno camp to Józef Stalin of October 2, 1939

Records of a prisoner of war Konstanty Sokół-Sokołowski in Soviet captivity, NKVD POW camp in Starobielsk

List of Wehrmacht with the names of Polish prisoners of Belarusian and Ukrainian nationality, subject to release from Stalag X C

Belarusian arbeitskommando in Stalag II D, the estate of Mulckenstein (near Szczecin), March 24, 1940

Belarusian writers in German captivity (from the left): Julian Siergiejewicz, Jan Bryl, Michał Wasilok;
Stalag II D, 1940

Józef Żukiewicz's ID card to award the Soldiers' Environmental Badge to the Independent Operational Group "Polesie"

Rifleman Jan Bryl - later participant in the defense of the Hel Peninsula in September 1939, a famous Belarusian writer after the war

Belarusians from the 33rd Light Artillery Regiment - later participants in the defense of Lviv in September 1939 (from left): Jakub Konon, NN, Michał Szałkowski,
Mikołaj Bogucki

To the conscripts from the Wołożyn poviat, a Pole, Bazyli Bogałowicz (on the left) and a Belarusian Włodzimierz Jabłoński - soldiers of the 19th light artillery regiment, Nowa Wilejka, 1934

Soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Legions (from the left):
Pole Włodzimierz Kawczyński, Belarusian Jan Bryl
(after the war - a famous Belarusian writer who was the only writer
Belarusians raised the issue of the participation of Belarusians in the Polish Army during
1939 campaign), Ukrainian Semen Nahorny, May 1939