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Karina Gaibulina: Although Poles did not initiate the colonial conquest of Siberia, the Caucasus or Central Asia, they nevertheless participated in the process of subjugating other nations and states.
Małgorzata Król: This honest Pole, an uncompromising convict, tried to remain free in conditions of enslavement, even though it may sound like a paradox. He remained independent despite his subjugation. Exhausted by the journey, ill, devastated by the news of his wife’s death and the orphanhood of his young children, he possessed extraordinary strength of spirit…
Dariusz Węgrzyn: The Soviets’ crossing of the so-called Curzon Line marked a significant change in their repressive policy. Officially, on 22 July 1944, the Polish Committee of National Liberation, led by communists, was established. In accordance with Stalin’s wishes, a border treaty was signed in Moscow on 27 July, but the new authorities in Poland did not want to disclose this document to the public.
Tim Smith: In the aftermath of the WWII over 160,000 Polish people displaced by the conflict made the difficult decision not to return to Poland and to live in Britain. Many of them were Sybiraks
Tatsiana Astrouskaya: Why one story – Ginzburg’s – is widely remembered and celebrated, while the other – Heniush’s – remained nearly unknown for decades? Many individuals who had once supported or even helped construct the Soviet repressive system, but later suffered under it, have been recognized as its most prominent opponents. Meanwhile, many of others who consistently rejected the system and never participated in it have been largely forgotten.
Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Viktoryia Kolchyna: In September 1939, the Polish city of Hrodno stayed exactly where it was. But by the end of the year, its people no longer lived in Poland. Overnight, they became Soviet – whether they understood what that meant or not.
Almost exactly 80 years after the deportation of Polish soldiers, in the early morning hours of December 8, 2024, local residents discovered that the memorial complex dedicated to the victims of Camp No. 270 in Jogola had been vandalized and desecrated.
Andrzej Górski, photographer, set out in the footsteps of the January Uprising. He photographed using a 19th century photographic technique – the so-called wet collodion.
Sergiusz Leończyk: At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, voluntary resettlement, also known as ‘Siberian fever’, began in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seized by Russia as a result of the partitions.
