What cannot the deportees from Poland deep into the Soviets forget? Hundreds of thousands of Poles were forcibly resettled deep into the USSR in 1940-41. Their dramatic plight is an extremely important chapter in Polish memory. The book, entitled Przerwane biografie. Relacje deportowanych z Polski w głąb Sowietów 1940-41 [Interrupted Biographies. Accounts of Deportees from Poland into the Depths of the Soviet Union, 1940-41], contains a selection of source texts written by the deportees themselves: fragments of correspondence, diaries or memoirs. From these diverse personal testimonies emerges a general picture of the various stages of the history of this resettlement: from the outbreak of the Second World War, through sovietisation of Poland’s Eastern Borderlands, the four waves of deportation (in February, April, June 1940 and May and June 1941) and the struggle for survival on “inhuman land”, to the exit from the USSR with Anders’ and Berling’s armies, the return to the home country, and the confrontation with the new realities that prevailed there. The materials published in the book, including numerous photographs and graphics, come from Archiwum Wschodnie [the East Archive] which consists of materials submitted by the deportees themselves or their families. It is run by the KARTA Centre and has been created by volunteers since the end of the 1980s.

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