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Viktor Bilotas: Between 2016 and 2018, the Lithuanian Cultural Council funded the “Lithuanian Siberia” project. Through visits to the archives of Tobolsk, Tomsk, and Krasnoyarsk, its participants acquired approximately 3,000 copies of documents relating primarily to exiles from the Augustów, Vilnius, and Kaunas Governorates.
Grzegorz Hryciuk: The Polish deportees who arrived from the USSR were condemned for decades to a kind of selective memory. These remained their personal trauma, which they could only share with their loved ones, who had experienced the same fate as them.
Mariusz Kulik: Through his actions, Zygmunt Sierakowski put the good of the general public and his homeland above his own. His participation in the January Uprising shows the dramatic fate of many Poles serving in the Russian army at that time. Many of them abandoned promising careers and stability, choosing an uncertain future and, often, poverty.
Sergiusz Leonczyk: After the end of the Polish-Bolshevik War, on 18 March 1921, a peace treaty between Poland, Russia and Ukraine was signed in Riga. Among the provisions of this treaty were points concerning the repatriation of the Polish population from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to independent Poland. This repatriation officially lasted from 1921 to June 1924, but the last repatriates arrived in Poland as late as 1925. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to exercise their right to repatriation to their historical homeland.
Wojciech Marciniak: Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War we ought to sustain the remembrance processes for our compatriots who arrived from the USSR as well as for those who aided them in enduring until the final chapter of their exiled-wanderings, also supporting them when resettling again in Poland.
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 and uncompromising prisoner — though it may sound like a paradox — strove to remain free even in the yolk of captivity.
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.
