Sala Świadectw

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Russian invasion

Describing the scene as Russian tanks rolled into the city

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Home in Kresy

Describing the pre-war family mansion.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Deportation

Describing their arrival in Barnaul and the Ukrainians who had been deported there previously.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Telling a mother her son died

Describing having to tell a mother that her son had died during the night.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Australia part 2

Frank describes how the builder he worked for in Australia was a driver in Iran, and had driven the Polish refugees from the Pahlavi to Teheran.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 3

Being called a capitalist by the Russians.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 2

Soviet soldier tells us we are lucky to be going to Kazakhstan.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 1

Being taken from home by force, in the middle of the night.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Surviving Kazakhstan

Praying with the Muslims.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Australia

An Australian at the Cairo hospital said I should come to Australia after the war.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Italian Campaign

Our job was to drive around with the radio truck.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Middle East

Being told all that they will be learning, now that they will be educated.

Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Back from the exile

Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Polish woman in USSR

Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Pre-war Kresy

Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Deportation

Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Religion in the USSR

Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Kazakhstan

Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - School and Soviet invasion

Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - The deportation

Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - Conditions in deportation train

Irena (Gadomska) Jankowska - The fear

Irena (Gadomska) Jankowska - Poetry of war

Irena (Gadomska) Jankowska - The day of Soviet invasion