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.
Amelia Sieczko’s hair curler
How could a hair curler be useful to those deported to Siberia? Amelia Sieczko and her family were deported by the Soviets in February 1940 to the...
Walenty Jabłoński’s watch
This inconspicuous, dilapidated watch was bought by 13-year-old Walenty Jabłoński at the end of the Second World War in a bazaar in Grodno. The...












