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
Aleksander Bogdan - Sister 15 years in Gulag
Aleksander describes how his sister was sentenced to 15 years in the Gulag, and how he manage to bring her to the UK 2 years after she was permitted to …
Aleksander Bogdan - Bomb nearly hit him
Aleksander describes how a bomb from a German plane fell only a few feet from him, during the fighting at Loretto Italy.
Aleksander Bogdan - Training in 2nd Corps
Aleksander explains the training that he and his colleagues went through in the Middle East.
Boguslaw Aleksander Topolski - Move to Canada
With his usual sense of humour, Alex describes why he decided to move to Canada.
Boguslaw Aleksander Topolski - About Hunger
Alex describes his decision to leave home at age 16 to join the Polish Army being formed in France. He goes on to say that his time in the USSR …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Murdered by Typhoid
Andrzej shows a drawing by Alicja Edwards and explains how this drawing epitomizes for him the entire experience of the deportation. He then reads a text about the death of …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Post-war education and work
Andrzej describes how he secured a grant and was able to obtain a degree, and then secure work in London and later in Devon.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Surrendering Arms in Italy
Andrzej tells of the sadness among the Polish soldiers in Italy, when they had to surrender their arms to the British.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Virtuti Militari medal
Andrzej describes how and when he received the medal, in May 1946
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Finding Poles in Uzbek Village
Describes how the younger, healthier soldiers were given money and transportation in order to scour the Uzbek countryside, looking for Polish citizens among the villages, so that they could provide …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Dantes Inferno on barges
Andrzej describes the scene on the barges that took them into the depth of Siberia, and compares it with Dante’s inferno.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Saved from going to Katyn
He was saved from being sent to Katyn with the other officers because a soldier he had known in Zakopane came up to him and told him to remove the …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Captured soldiers marched through Rowne
Andrzej describes how they were all marched through the town of Rowne on their way to the railway station, and transport to the Gulags. A unit of Polish Border Guards …