While traveling through Palestine, Polish soldiers and civilians came across an Iranian boy with a young bear. Lieutenant Anatol Tarnowiecki from the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, at the insistence of Irena Bokiewicz (niece of General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski), bought the bear in exchange for canned goods, crackers, a bar of chocolate, a few coins and a Swiss knife.
My mother felt guilty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjZX-CAT18&t=538s Nina Tomaszyk is the granddaughter of Krystyna Skwarko, who was deported with her family from...
I have only patchy memories…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSYCYKpvX8&t=628s Zbyszek Poplawski is a special person: very kind and warm. Throughout his adult life he...
Kazik Zając’s Dramatic Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-1GA5GqB0 Kazik Zając was born in Chorzów. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was two and a half...
“Open up! Get going! We are leaving!!!” – a promotional meeting with professor Albin Głowacki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dLvmIcemk "Open up! Get going! We are leaving!!!" For the deportees, it was the beginning of their story; for the...
Felicja Konarska – What Can’t the Deportees from Poland Deep into the Soviet Union Forget?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizds4K7RRE&t=21s What cannot the deportees from Poland deep into the Soviets forget? Hundreds of thousands of...
The Enchanted Objects of Kresy. The History of the Sieczko Family
The Sieczko family managed to take a sewing machine to Sybir. Although it was heavy and unwieldy, it saved their lifes.




