Sala Świadectw

Ryszard Lange - Life in Ifunda

Describing how life developed in Ifunda, with schools and activities for the youth, including the fact that boys his age were constantly leaving to join the cadets, but his mother

Ryszard Lange - Ship crossing to Karachi

Describing how rough the crossing was to Karachi, including repeated evacuation drills that took place in the middle of the night.

Ryszard Lange - Trip south and train accident

Describing how they made their way south from Kazakhstan, and the train collision that happened on the way.

Ryszard Lange - Russians take over the Mill

Describing how the Russians took over control of his father’s Mill, and how a Russian family lived with them for 2 years.

Tadeusz Marczak - Beginnings in Manchester

Tadeusz describes how, after the war, they ended up in Manchester, found work and settled there.

Tadeusz Marczak - Camp in Siberia and then Amnesty

Tadeusz describes the work they completed at the camp in Siberia, and the how they made their way out after ‘amnesty’.

Tadeusz Marczak - Liquidating 2 Corps arms in Italy

Tadeusz describes how they liquidated arms and vehicles in Italy, and then made their way to England.

Diakon Czesław Pukacz - Life on the Uzbek collective farm

Czeslaw describes how they lived while they were at the collective farm.

Diakon Czesław Pukacz - Beginnings on the Osada

Czeslaw describes what life was like when the Osada was first set up, and how his father had to live in the initial stages.

Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Saved from the firing squad

Describing how she would have been shot by the Soviets, for stealing a railway tie, if it had not been for some quick thinking on the part of a fellow

Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Propganda photos of joyful deportees

Describing how staged photos of the deportees were taken by the Soviets, for propaganda reasons.

Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Youth keeps up their morale

Describing how the younger deportees at the camp remained hopeful that they would one day make it out of there.

Kazimiera Smolinska - School in a PRC Camp

Kazimiera describes the PRC school, from the viewpoint of a child in grade 2.

Kazimiera Smolinska - Kazia recalls life in Lusaka

Kazimiera recalls life in Africa, from the perspective of a very young child.

Agnieszka (Mysliwa) Smolinska - Uzbek Turtles saved them

Agnieszka describes how they would gather turtles and how they would prepare them in soups and other ways. Gathering and cooking turtles provided them with the food they needed to

Agnieszka (Mysliwa) Smolinska - Gave birth on the train

Agnieszka recounts how she gave birth to her daughter on the 4th day on the train – on 14 February 1940 – while the train was still on the Polish

Wojciech Narębski - Return to Poland

Wojciech Narębski - Arrest and Imprisonment

Wojciech Narębski - Disease and Hospital

Wojciech Narębski - Monte Cassino

Wojciech Narębski - Poles in Buzuluk

Zofia (Stępek) Repa -

Stefan Bogusław Mączka -

Bożena Wojciechowska-Osiecka - Poem