Bazyli Kuc with his wife. From the Sybir Memorial Museum collection

After 17 September 1939, Bazyli Kuc was arrested by the NKVD and sent to the Komi Republic. The Soviets must have known about the fact that he was a social activist and that he had become a local Civil Defense commissioner just before the outbreak of the war. They also remembered that during the Russian Revolution he had fought against the Bolsheviks, so after becoming a prisoner of war he was sentenced to death, which he miraculously avoided. The execution was supposed to be carried out by a soldier also named Kuc…

Read the longer biography in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/bazyli-kuc/