Sala Świadectw

Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Father was on the ship that was sunk by the Russians

Jozefa explains how she only learned in recent years about how her father died – he was one of the deportees that was on the ship that was sunk by

Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Orphanage in Russia where Polish Officer found them

Jozefa explains how she and her sister ended up in a Russian orphanage after they were released from the hospital where their mother and older sister died. A Polish officer

Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Family members who died first in USSR

Jozefa describes conditions in the Gulag and the family members who died there.

Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Ukrainian Repressions in the Kresy

Jozefa describes what she remembers of relations with Ukrainians in the Kresy before the deportation of her family.

Alfons Mrzyk - A.Mrzyk-sytuacja 1939

Stefan Podsiadlo - Monte Cassino Attack

Stefan recounts the offensive on Monte Cassino in May 1944

Eugeniusz Cydzik - Soviet invasion, fights for Grodno

Eugeniusz Cydzik - Journey to Workuta gulag

Eugeniusz Cydzik - Work at Vorkuta mines

Irena (Witas) Persak - Family deportation on 10 Feb 1940

Jan Grodzick - Barracks in Norylsk gulag

Description of the barracks at the camp in Norylsk.

Jan Gasztold - Jan Gasztold

Describes an event in 1936 where he received an award at a scouting jamboree.

Ludwik Finkelstein - Ludwik Finkelstein

Ludwik Finkelstein - Ludwik Finkelstein

Bożena (Twarowska) Bockenhein - Sells her doll for a cup of milk

Bozena has a doll with her at the camp in Siberia, and the Camp Commander’s wife tells her mother that she will give a cup of milk per day to

Bożena (Twarowska) Bockenhein - Scene when train moves off

Bozena describes a scene that has remained vivid in her memory, of the moment when the train moved off.

Józefa (Korab) Olenska - Poem about Palentine

Jozefa recites a poem from their time in Palestine

Józefa (Korab) Olenska - Sandstorm in Egypt

Jozefa describes a sandstorm in Egypt that lasted 7 days.

Józefa (Korab) Olenska - Battle of Bologna

Jozefa describes the action at Bologna and the fact that all the soldiers in her transport were killed during there, as a result of American bombing raids that mistook the

Piotr Łabuz - Osadnictwo na Podolu przed I wojną światową

Roman Marchwicki - Multinational Grodno

Janina (Stobniak) Smogorzewska - Osada Krechowiecka, Wolyn

Wiktoria (Klatt) Malinowska - Malinowska Policeman arrrested in 1939

Edmund Brzozowski - Brzozowski Szkoła Podchorążych 1939