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The Pałka family was deported by the Soviets from Stryj in April 1940 to Kazakhstan. After many vicissitudes, the family ended up in Rhodesia. The Pałkas returned to Poland in 1947.
Anna (Hanka) Pawłowicz (married name Szelewicz), was born in 1925. Her family lived in Jozefina near Poświętne, where her father, Aleksander Pawłowicz, worked in the private forests of Princess Mirska. When the Soviets came in 1939, Aleksander was arrested and taken to prison in Białystok. Anna
On 21 March 1940, NKVD officers burst into the home of the Didyk family living in Lviv. They arrested the father of the family, Stefan - a postman and member of the underground and, in the past, of the Polish Military Organisation. They put him in prison and then murdered him in Kyiv with a shot to
On 10 February 1940, during the first mass deportation of Polish citizens from the occupied territories, the Soviets deported to Siberia, among others, Wacław Bzik, a forester from the Sokółka Forest District, and his wife Stanisława.
The Gromadzki family was deported to, Yakutia in June 1941 from the Szikszniai estate near Kibort in the Vilnius district of the Republic of Lithuania.
This small booklet is used by Orthodox believers to record the names of loved ones of the deceased. It belonged to the Auchimowicz family.
In the collection of the Sybir Memorial Museum is an herbarium brought to Poland by Jozef Krypajtis. It consists of 102 pages and contains specimens of some 130 species of plants found in the vicinity of Vorkuta, ranging from seaweeds, fungi and mosses to seed plants. The full information in Polish
In the collection of the Sybir Memorial Museum is a herbarium brought to Poland by Jozef Krypajtis. It consists of 102 pages and contains specimens of some 130 species of plants found in the vicinity of Vorkuta, ranging from seaweeds, fungi and mosses to seed plants. The full information in Polish i
Years later, the Singer sewing machine became one of the symbols of the 1940–1941 deportations. Out of almost nothing, a skilful seamstress could use it to create miracles, which she might exchange for bread, medicine or warm clothing. Sometimes, however, bad luck or pure chance rendered the mac