Sala Świadectw

Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Nursing Course

Taking an accelerated nursing course in the Middle East.

Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Three Weddings

Having three consecutive weddings in the UK.

Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Living in Chicken Coop

Describing finding a chicken coop to live in.

Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Russian Invasion

Describing how the Russian tanks rode over the crops in the fields, and then how things changed in terms of relationships with some of their neighbours.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - First Job in Canada

Describing the kind of work she did at her first job in Canada

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Identifying the dead

Describing how the deceased were identified, guessing at the age of the person.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Leaving Kolhoz

Describing the journey from the kolkhoz to the southern area of the USSR.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Piano farewell

Describing how her brother had played 3 long overtures on the piano, while the NKVD officer and soldiers listened, transfixed, and let him play.

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