Varlam Shalamov – a perceptive observer of human suffering

Leon Barszczewski (1849-1910) – colonel in the tsarist army, photographer, geologist, ethnographer, researcher 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

And his grave was trampled by horses… Szymon Konarski

Pr. Władysław Bukowiński – “the apostle of Kazakhstan”