collections

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.

This small booklet is used by Orthodox believers to record the names of loved ones of the deceased. It belonged to the Auchimowicz family, deported on 13 April 1940 from Sokółka (Poland) to Kazakhstan.

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

Since the 19th century, this gorget had belonged to the Szrodecki family, the owners of the Kożany estate in Podlasie. According to family history, the gorget was in Siberia for the first time with Konstanty Szrodecki, who was sent to Siberia for his participation in the January Uprising. With the