Sala Świadectw

Describing how they found their father wandering around, without any memory of his family. His memory returned when he heard his son call to him.

Describing how important religion was to the deportees.

Describing how she saved a girl named Wanda from drowning in the river in Siberia.

Describing how they felt as they were being deported, and how important the loss of one’s country is.

Describing how she met her husband and he asked her to marry him the next day. They were married after only 5 meetings.

Describing the condition of the hospital – all the windows were blown out by the bombing. Wounded were arriving from all the battles after Cassino.

Describing the set up of the hospital and dealing with the massive number of wounded from the Battle of Monte Cassino.

Describing his father’s work before the war at Lwow Radio, and his work for the Polish Government in Exile during and after the war.

Describing how his mother was convinced to send them to India, and their overland trip by lorry from Uzbekistan to India.

Describing the problems their mother had in getting them from India to Teheran.

Describing the journey south to join the Polish Army

Describing how he was treated for scarlet fever in the labour camp.

Describing how his Uncle was promoted in the Polish 2nd Corps, and eventually replaced General Maczek and served in the iPAD in Meppen.

Describing how his uncle was arrested and sent to Siberia, but managed to conceal his true identity as a high-ranking officer.

Describing how their mother would sell valuables that she had brought from Poland, and how this helped them survive and leave the USSR.

Describing how he had to work in the fields at age 6 1/2 !!

She was in an orphanage with mostly Russian children, and describes how there were 20 of them sleeping in one room, 4 to a bed (not really a bed, rather …

She remained in Irtysz (sp?) and she had frost bitten legs – her toes were black. The head of the orphanage was a Polish lady, and she helped cure her …

They were deported in the spring, and describes the train as having wooden benches at each end to sleep on, a hole in the floor for a toilet, and that …

His father was unwell on the train journey south. He got off at one station, to get food and water for the family, and they never saw him again. Red …

Describing how he played the Polish hymn for soldiers at the railway station and they showered him with bread and money.

Describing the scene when they reached shore and what happened then.

This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.

Dioniza describes all that the children learned from scouting, and how it helped them develop and grow.