Eugeniusz Niebelski
The Długosz Museum in Sandomierz houses an unparalleled souvenir of the 1879 exile – a birch casket. It is beautiful, the lid opens (there used to be a key to it too), and it smells and … “reads” because it has the signatures of priests and friends of the owner inscribed on the top. It is the property of Father Konstanty Piwarski of the Sandomierz diocese, who before the January Uprising was parish priest of the Oratorians in Studzianna and was exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist authorities in 1863.
Read the text in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/brzozowa-skrzyneczka-pamiatka-zeslanca-1863-roku-ks-konstantego-piwarskiego/
Eugeniusz Niebelski is a professor at Catholic University in Lublin