Sala Świadectw

Having three consecutive weddings in the UK.

Describing finding a chicken coop to live in.

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.

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

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

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

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

Describing the scene as Russian tanks rolled into the city

Describing the pre-war family mansion.

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

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

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.

Being called a capitalist by the Russians.

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

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

Praying with the Muslims.

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

Our job was to drive around with the radio truck.

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