John Janek Roy-Wojciechowski – a great Pole

Litwá – ródna ziamièlka! (O Lithuania, my native land…) – about Vincent „Vincuk” Dunin-Marcinkiewicz

Varlam Shalamov – a perceptive observer of human suffering

LEON BARSZCZEWSKI (1849–1910) – COLONEL OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY, PHOTOGRAPHER, GEOLOGIST, ETHNOGRAPHER, AND EXPLORER OF CENTRAL ASIAN PEOPLES

Helping the Youngest – Maria and Kazimierz Wodzicki

Józef Owsiany – Sybirak’s Loneliness

Jadwiga née Jarka Cooper – one of our most colourful Auckland Polish community members

Arseniusz Lalič – a Croatian by birth, a Pole by heart

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński – a man who experienced a lack of humanity