Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Tried to save bread for her mother
Eugenia describes how she kept wanting to save part of her bread so that she could bring it to her starving mother, but she was so hungry herself that she …
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 …
Antoni Stelmach - Siberian Husky
Antoni talks about the dog that was his companion while at the camp – a stray Siberian Husky that may have been left behind by those who had preceded them …
Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Bedbugs and work in Siberia
Describing the various measures they took to get rid of the bedbugs. Also describing the work in the forest, including the branches that the school children would gather and burn …
Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Building a brick wall from snow
Explaining how the collective farm was 50 km from the Chinese border, with very harsh winters, and the Poles were forced to make bricks from the snow and build a …
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 …