This photograph, taken in 1945, shows the children and caretakers of the Polish orphanage in Staevo, Komi ASRS. Perhaps someone can help us to recognise them?
Polish orphanage in Staevo
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Pokazuję wyniki dla: The mysteries hidden in pictures
The dramatic fate of Franciszek Bruchnicki
Franciszek Bruchnicki served in General Berling’s Army. In September 1944, he fought in the Czerniaków bridgehead, on the outskirts of Warsaw. A year later, he died in the gulag in Magadan. How did he end up there?
The story of one photograph
This photograph came to our Museum from the family of Jan Witusiak, who was deported with his family to the village of Teja in Krasnoyarsk Krai....
A Group of Deportees with Their Guards, Teja, Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1940-1945
The Witusiak family was deported on 10 February 1940 to the village of Teja in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Jan worked at floating timber.
Airmen of the 300th Bomb Squadron “Land of Mazovia”, Faldingworth, United Kingdom, 1945–1946
The man standing in the middle is Eugeniusz Pietrzak. Who are the men standing around him?
Deportees in the Seida sovkhoz, Komi Republic, 1955
In 1955 Veronika Pouch, born in Vilnius in 1914, was in the Seida sovkhoz in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic…
Soldiers of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, The Middle East, 1942
The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division was formed in May 1942 in Qastina in the then-territory of Palestine as a result of a merger of the Polish...
Beshenstvo – children from the orphanage in Fastovo, Russian Empire, 1915–1916
Bezhenstvo – children from the orphanage in Fastovo, Russian Empire,
1915–1916.
Polish deportees in Kachyry, Pavlodar Oblast, Kazakhstan 1942
Polish deportees to Kachyry, Pavlodar Oblast, Kazakhstan 1942. Who are they?
People deported to the F. Dzerzhinsky Sovkhoz near Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region, 1944
People deported to the F. Dzerzhinsky sovkhoz near Karasuk, Novosibirsk region, 1944. Who are they?