podcasts

Krzysztof Renik in a conversation conducted in the early 1990s with Fr Ignacy Pawlus, a Salvatorian who was one of the first Polish priests to carry out pastoral work in Irkutsk, but also in towns and villages tens or even hundreds of kilometres away

Prisoner of Soviet gulags, soldier in the Anders Army, emigrant, and former street photographer of pre-war Bialystok. His collection of negatives, miraculously found over twenty years ago, is the largest single collection of pre-war street photograph

Deportation to Siberia changed her life. Klara Rogalska devoted it to selflessly helping others. For many years, she was an active member of organisations bringing together people deported deep into the Soviet Union and former residents of the Polish

The story of the pacification of small gentry settlements in the eastern lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the deportation of several thousand of their inhabitants to Siberia.

Krzysztof Renik In the next podcast, Krzysztof Renik invites to listen to the archival story about Poles from Irkutsk. The recording dates back to 1992, and its main characters already passed away. Recordings text in Polish (PDF):

Podcast: The diary of Marianna Waszczuk, a resident of the village of Czeremcha in Podlasie, is a story written at the time of real events, which began with her deportation from her homeland to distant Siberia.

From Bari in Italy, Wala went to Liverpool. The beginnings were not at all easy. In the third and last part of Elżbieta Smoleńska's interview with Waleria Sawicka, memories from exile also return.

In the second part of Elzbieta Smolenska's podcast, Valeria Sawicka looks at photos and tells how she made her way from Krasnowodsk to Persia and later to Iraq, Palestine and Italy. She passed her high school exams in 1943, ran a day care centre for

Waleria Sawicka, who is more than 100 years old, lives in East London. In Elżbieta Smoleńska's podcast, she tells the story of how she and her mother were deported from Swieciany to Kazakhstan in April 1940…..