Romuald Mańkowski - Conditions in gulag

Describing the living conditions in the Gulag, and how they got worse after the Germans attacked the Russians.

Irena Jabłońska - Russian orphanage

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

Irena Jabłońska - Orphans put to work

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

Bernarda (Karbowa) Andrejczuk - How were the Russians in Siberia

Bernarda describes how the Russian people who preceded them to the camp, and were still stuck there, were in the same situation as they were – sometimes their conditions were

Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Caught a rooster and cooked it

During their time in Kazakhstan, they had to do whatever was possible in order to find food. Once, a rooster wandered into their hut, and they quickly killed it and

Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Mother lost in the woods overnight

While in Siberia, her mother once went looking for mushrooms in the woods with another lady, and they became lost. They did not find their way back until morning. Had

Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Children would steal bread from the wagon

Describing how the children would sneak pieces of broken bread from the delivery wagon. (Note: Jerzy has had a stutter since the start of the war, when a bomb landed

Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Christmas dinner in a can and ice in the house

Describing how his mother cooked some wheat in a can for their Christmas Eve dinner. Also describes how the hut they lived in would be buried in snow right to

Władysław Niezgoda - Bike taken to Siberia exchanged for a goat

Describes how the bike that he managed to take to Siberia, because it had been packed in a box, was exchanged for a goat, which provided milk for his infant

Diakon Czesław Pukacz - Life on the Uzbek collective farm

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

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

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

Wojciech Narębski - Disease and Hospital

Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Surviving Kazakhstan - sourcing food

Maria describes the different ways in which the children would find sources of food while they were in Kazakhstan.

Maria (Tarasiewicz) van der Linden - Snowstorm buries their Kazak dwelling

Maria describes how the hut was buried in a snowstorm and they were saved 3 days later, when others dug them out.

Jan/John Migut - Uzbek Kindergarten

Jan explains what the children did in kindergarten, and sings a song that he learned there.

Jan/John Migut - Uzbek Cemetary

Jan tells how the Uzbeks would bury their dead in a sitting position and place food on their lap. In order to survive, they dug up the food.

Barbara (Wojcik) Wierzbicka - Child stolen by Russian lady

Barbara describes an event during her time in Siberia, when a Russian lady kidnapped her and kept her hidden for 2 weeks, while the whole camp looked for her.

Maria (Sztela) Juralewicz - Attending Russian School

Maria describes the Russian school that she attended in Siberia and some of the subjects that she liked best.

Stanisław Migut - Life in Nowosibirsk pt 2. Jews

Stanisław Migut - Father in the hospital

Stanisław Migut - Life in Uzbekistan

Stanisław Migut - Evacuation to Africa

Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - Mother Arrested

Barbara talks about her mother being arrested in Siberia by the NKVD for teaching Polish children the Polish language.

Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - USSR 2

Barbara talks about her father and brother leaving with Anders Army but that she and her mother remained in Siberia for 6 years.