Anna (Hanka) Pawłowicz (married name Szelewicz), was born in 1925. Her family lived in Jozefina near Poświętne, where her father, Aleksander...
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Diary of Ada Didyk
On 21 March 1940, NKVD officers burst into the home of the Didyk family living in Lviv. They arrested the father of the family, Stefan – a postman and member of the underground and, in the past, of the Polish Military Organisation. They put him in prison and then murdered him in Kyiv with a shot to the back of the head as part of the Katyn Massacre.
Decorations and immortelle of Wacław Bzik
On 10 February 1940, during the first mass deportation of Polish citizens from the occupied territories, the Soviets deported to Siberia, among others, Wacław Bzik, a forester from the Sokółka Forest District, and his wife Stanisława.
Jerzy Gromadzki’s dugout, siktjach, Yakutia Autonomous Soviet Republic
The Gromadzki family was deported to, Yakutia in June 1941 from the Szikszniai estate near Kibort in the Vilnius district of the Republic of Lithuania.
Commemoration book of the Auchimowicz Family, Nairobi, 1944
This small booklet is used by Orthodox believers to record the names of loved ones of the deceased. It belonged to the Auchimowicz family.
Flora of Vorkuta – The Herbarium of Piotr Adaś
In the collection of the Sybir Memorial Museum is an herbarium brought to Poland by Jozef Krypajtis. It consists of 102 pages and contains specimens...
A wonderful sewing machine belonging to the Sitarski Family
The Singer sewing machine. The Sybir Memorial Museum Collection Years later, the Singer sewing machine became one of the symbols of the 1940–1941...
The Szrodecki family’s gorget with the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa
Since the 19th century, this gorget had belonged to the Szrodecki family, the owners of the Kożany estate in Podlasie. According to family history,...
Adolf Saraniecki’s name day card from Poles in Kozhavod, Kazakhstan
Greeting-card given to Adolf Saraniecki, delegate of the Polish Embassy in Semipalatinsk, by his countrymen from Koż-Zawod on June 17, 1942.
List of items left by the Klein family on the day of deportation from Białystok, 1940
The Klein family was deported from Bialystok on April 13, 1940. Soviets made a list of items left by the family.