Paul Lubas is 58 years old and runs a motel in Murchison, in the northern part of the South Island (New Zealand). He is married with four grown-up children. His father Lech was born in 1932 in the Polish settlers’ colony Sienkiewiczówka near Tarnopol. Lech Lubas was deported on the 10th of February 1940 together with elder sister Helena (1929), his father Wojciech (1893) and his nephew Józef Roman.
The interview was conducted as part of the project “Bolesław Augustis and Sybiracy in New Zealand. Query and digitisation of selected archives’ was co-financed by the National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad ‘Polonica’ and the budget of the City of Białystok.