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Film impressions from a journey in the footsteps of Soviet forced labour camps and places of deportation in Kolyma by Krzysztof Heyke, a seeker of Polish traces in the East.
The mini-documentary "Let There Be Something Left of Us" is a story told by Jerzy Seweryn Puciłowski, who was arrested by the Soviets on 28 November 1944.
It was definitely a special moment – just a few weeks after the German Reich’s aggression against the Soviet Union, probably the first days of August 1941. Polish and Czechoslovakian diplomats arrived in Moscow: the new chargé d’affaires of the Republic of Poland, Józef Retinger and the
Paul Lubas is 58 years old and runs a motel in Murchison, in the northern part of the South Island (New Zealand). He is married with four grown-up children. His father Lech was born in 1932 in the Polish settlers’ colony Sienkiewiczówka near Tarnopol. Lech Lubas was deported on the 10th of Februa
Tadeusz (Bernard Mazur’s father) came to New Zealand in 1944. He was an orphan. His parents were military settlers and lived near Sokal. On the 10th of February 1940, the Soviets deported the whole family to Siberia. Bernard’s father never cared to talk about the time of deportation. Whereas Ber
While traveling through Palestine, Polish soldiers and civilians came across an Iranian boy with a young bear. Lieutenant Anatol Tarnowiecki from the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, at the insistence of Irena Bokiewicz (niece of General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski), bought the bear in exchange f
Nina Tomaszyk is the granddaughter of Krystyna Skwarko, who was deported with her family from Sokółka near Białystok. Krystyna was a pre-war teacher who, following the conclusion of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement (1941) organized help for Polish orphans – first in Iran, and from the autumn of 19
Zbyszek Poplawski is a special person: very kind and warm. Throughout his adult life he worked as a surgeon in New Zealand, where he ended up as one of 733 “Pahiatua children” – Polish orphans rescued from Sybir, who were invited by that country’s government in 1944 and taken
Kazik Zając was born in Chorzów. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was two and a half years old. The summer holidays of 1939 were the beginning of a dramatic odyssey for him, in which he lost his home, his parents and his homeland. The war catapulted him to the other […]
