Testimonies

Describing how the Russians took over control of his father’s Mill, and how a Russian family lived with them for 2 years.

Tadeusz describes how, after the war, they ended up in Manchester, found work and settled there.

Tadeusz describes the work they completed at the camp in Siberia, and the how they made their way out after ‘amnesty’.

Tadeusz describes how they liquidated arms and vehicles in Italy, and then made their way to England.

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

Czeslaw describes what life was like when the Osada was first set up, and how his father had to live in the initial stages.

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 …

Describing how staged photos of the deportees were taken by the Soviets, for propaganda reasons.

Describing how the younger deportees at the camp remained hopeful that they would one day make it out of there.

Kazimiera describes the PRC school, from the viewpoint of a child in grade 2.

Kazimiera recalls life in Africa, from the perspective of a very young child.

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 …

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 …

Aleksander describes how his sister was sentenced to 15 years in the Gulag, and how he manage to bring her to the UK 2 years after she was permitted to …

Aleksander describes how a bomb from a German plane fell only a few feet from him, during the fighting at Loretto Italy.

Aleksander explains the training that he and his colleagues went through in the Middle East.