Leokadia (Muchowska) Opioła - Brother escaped and stayed behind
Describing how her brother escaped and stayed in Poland (the Russians did not realize he was missing). Two of her aunts offered to take the youngest child, but her mother …
Irena Jabłońska - Deported to Kazakhstan
They were deported in the spring, and describes the train as having wooden benches at each end to sleep on, a hole in the floor for a toilet, and that …
Antoni Stelmach - What mother took to Siberia - Searching for Father
Antoni tells how his mother took the family photos and her fox fur to Siberia – she had the fur all through the journey, and still had it when they …
Halina (Myszak) Babinska - Unusual circumstance of village not kolkhoz
Halina describes where they were taken by the Soviets. In contrast with most deportees who ended up in labour camps, they were taken to a small village that formed a …
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 …
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 …
Jan/John Migut - Girl in potato sack
Jan tells how a man on the train tried to save his daughter by putting her in a potato sack and lowering her outside the train at one of the …