Prisoner of Soviet gulags, soldier in the Anders Army, emigrant, and former street photographer of pre-war Bialystok. His collection of negatives,...

Deportation to Siberia changed her life. Klara Rogalska devoted it to selflessly helping others. For many years, she was an active member of...

The story of the pacification of small gentry settlements in the eastern lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the deportation of several thousand of their inhabitants to Siberia.

Krzysztof Renik In the next podcast, Krzysztof Renik invites to listen to the archival story about Poles from Irkutsk. The recording dates back to...

From Bari in Italy, Wala went to Liverpool. The beginnings were not at all easy. In the third and last part of Elżbieta Smoleńska’s interview with Waleria Sawicka, memories from exile also return.

In the second part of Elzbieta Smolenska’s podcast, Valeria Sawicka looks at photos and tells how she made her way from Krasnowodsk to Persia and later to Iraq, Palestine and Italy. She passed her high school exams in 1943, ran a day care centre for Polish soldiers and became a radio operator in the Anders Army. And about how an English officer fell in love with her…

Waleria Sawicka, who is more than 100 years old, lives in East London. In Elżbieta Smoleńska’s podcast, she tells the story of how she and her mother were deported from Swieciany to Kazakhstan in April 1940…..

Another podcast by Krzysztof Renik. The author uses his archival footage from the early 1990s taken in Siberia, in the settlement of Naszyta, neighbouring the village of Vershyna. Both these settlements, some 100 kilometres from Irkutsk, are home to descendants of Poles who left Małopolska Region in Poland in 1910 and settled voluntarily in Siberia.

The brothers Aleksander and Antoni Radchenko, Poles from Vilnius, in a conversation with Krzysztof Renik talk about the family story of their ancestors’ deportation and their journey to Siberia in the footsteps of their exiled family members.