Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Finding Father

Finding Father in Pahlavi and brothers in the Middle East.

Edwarda Wiktoria (Szczygieł) Fijał - Nursing Course

Taking an accelerated nursing course in the Middle East.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Identifying the dead

Describing how the deceased were identified, guessing at the age of the person.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Leaving Kolhoz

Describing the journey from the kolkhoz to the southern area of the USSR.

Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Telling a mother her son died

Describing having to tell a mother that her son had died during the night.

Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Middle East

Being told all that they will be learning, now that they will be educated.

Barbara (Kowalska) Kowalska - Father’s trauma

Barbara (Lenkowska) Czartoszewska - Problems escaping USSR

Zofia (Mertens) Teliga - Surviving USSR

Czesław Zychowicz - Evacuation from USSR

Edmund Majewski - The road to Iraq

Ryszard Liebeskind - First moments in Anders’ Army

Mieczysław Hampel - Sikorski vs Anders

Ryszard Dembiński - Situation in Persia

Aniela (siostra) Nowak - Evacuation

Aniela (siostra) Nowak - Conditions during evacuation

NN. Szkopiak - Evacuation

Stanisław Żurakowski - Evacutation and happiness

Stanisław Żurakowski - Good life in the Army

Danuta (Szczerba-Likiernik vel Gąbińska) Waydenfeld - Evacuation through Caspian Sea

Stefan Waydenfeld - Jewish problems in Polish Army

Józef Królczyk - Summary

This fragment was taken from an interview conducted by Joanna Dudzic of Manchester UK. In this clip, Józef gives a summary of his life, before, during and after the war.

Anna (Slawetska) Bortnowska - Orlenta

The Polish Army invented a formation called Orlenta in order to allow children who were too young to join Junacy a chance to also be evacuated to Persia.

Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Fates of the families of soldiers of the Polish Army in USSR

Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Civilians evacuated from the USSR with the Polish Army