Gallery – Soviet Mass Deportations

Addressed to Olga Iwanica, Majskiego region, ... Kirow ...

Janina Iwanica

During WWII

Russia

Majskiego

Unfortunately this is a front and back cover only. There are no pages inside.

Henry Sokolowski

During WWII

Uzbekistan

Tashkent

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

1941 Jerzy Kozak and his grandfather (Joachim not sure) in Darovatka. Same man is in the next group photo with Maria + Zenobiusz. Same plank/board pattern, in both photos, likely taken same time. Deported from Sarkowka on Feb 10, 1940

Inscription on photo bottom right - “exile”

Personal collection

During WWII

Little diary that Frank Kustra kept from deportation until arriving in Australia - he smuggled it out of USSR

Frank Kustra

During WWII

Frank and Tadeusz Kustra (starving children)

Frank Kustra

During WWII

Scanned photo of Uzbek huts

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Uzbekistan

Karasu

My Mother's last letter to Father via Red Cross. 2.4.1942 from Teheran to Karasu in Uzbekistan.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Iran

Teheran

Telegram from Father, sending 450 rubels.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Postcard from my mother to my father. Sent from Russia, in Russian.

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Russia

Photo has come into Eugenia's possession from a collection that she inherited from a child who left the ship in Bombay on the journey to New Zealand.

Eugenia Smolnicka

During WWII

Soviet Union

In June 1940, whilst living in Lwow, Edward was arrested by the NKVD and deported to a Gulag near Rybinsk in Russia.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

During WWII

Poland

Lwow

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 2 of a 2 page letter from Eleanor. The handwritten portion of the typed letter is signed by "Gusia" (Eleanor's daughter, Jadwiga), saying that the typed text was transcribed from a letter handwritten by her moth.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 2 of a 2 page handwritten letter from Eleanor back to a friend still in Lwow. It refers a "Gusia" (her daughter Jadwiga) and children (Jerzy Krasicki and his brother).

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 1 of a 2 page letter from Eleanor. The handwritten portion of the typed letter is signed by "Gusia" (Eleanor's daughter, Jadwiga), saying that the typed text was transcribed from a letter handwritten by her moth.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This is page 1 of a 2 page handwritten letter from Eleanor back to a friend still in Lwow. It refers a "Gusia" (her daughter Jadwiga) and children (Jerzy Krasicki and his brother).

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. This drawing of "ferma Michajlowka, Palatinskaja Oblast" was drawn by, and sent with a letter from, Eleanor back to Lwow. This is where Eleanor and Juliusz lived during their exile.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Juliusz Aleksander Roman Bielski (then aged 78 years) and his wife Eleanor Maria Jadwiga (nee Jablonowska) were deported from Lwow in April 1940 to Semipalatynsk Oblast, Station Angestobe, Zarminskij Rajon, Sowjoz Krasnyj Skolowod. After deportation nobody in Lwow knew where they had been deported to. This telegram identified their address. It was sent to Marys Bielska - wife of their son Adam Bielski. Adam escaped from Lwow to Hungry and fought in the Polish Army, first in France and then in the UK.

Count Jerzy Krasicki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Semipalatynsk Oblast

Stanislaw Michulka his wife Franciszka and her Sister Aniela Krzesaj with Stanislaw two Children Janina and Jan who were the only two left in Siberia with Stanley and his wife before returning to Zmigrod Poland around 1946/47 Little Jan was Born in Siberia 1946 and Janina born in Siberia also around 1941 and later Died Zmigrod Poland in 1950 ?

Kazimierz Mihulka

After WWII

Russia

Mizgranka camp Novisabirsk/Tomsk, Novisabirsk/Tomsk Oblast

Kazimierz in Middle of picture with two pals in Mizgranka Siberia near Tomsk-Novisabirsk

Kazimierz Mihulka

During WWII

Russia

Tomsk-Novisabirsk

Kresy Siberia Team at the Monument to the fallen and murdered in the East

Poland

Warsaw

Irena and Niusia Rytwinska, in 1941

Richard Starostecki

During WWII

Kazakhstan

During WWII

Soviet Union

Photo of Jozef Moskal (of Kosciuskow osada)

Leon Kustra

During WWII

Soviet Union

Archangelsk, Lenski

Home of PP Jan Pacewicz, wife Julia Pacewicz and children Józef, Jadwiga and Władysław Rowne, Ul Dworecka 29/1, from where Julia, Jadwiga and Władysław were deported from on the 13th April 1940 to Kazkahstan.

Anna Pacewicz

After WWII

Ukraine

Rivne

Shows the railway network across Kazakhstan in 1941. Along the top is Petropavlovsk on the Omsk line. This would most likely have been the route my family would have taken. The nearest big city to their place of forced labour was Petropavlovsk.

During WWII

Russia

Shows the railway network across the Kazakhstan in 1941. Akmolinsk is the central junction. Petropavlovsk, at the very top, would have been the nearest main station to the place of my family's deportation and forced labour.

During WWII

Russia

Shows the railway network across the whole of the USSR in 1941

During WWII

Russia

Drawing and Description of Posiolek 45 in USSR

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia

Map of route TO and OUT OF the USSR - The journey of the Stelmach family

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia

Drawing of Antoni Stelmach - Drawing made by a fellow prisoner in the Soviet camp.

Antoni Stelmach

During WWII

Russia