Wojciech Marciniak: She kindled a light of hope: the extraordinary fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and her family.
She Kindled a Light of Hope: The Extraordinary Fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and Her Family
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A commander’s notebook reveals the fates of exiles
Daniel Boćkowski: Two ordinary school notebooks containing a dozen or so pages of tables and statistical summaries turned out to be an invaluable source of knowledge about the rules governing the small special settlements to which deportees were sent by the Soviets in 1940 and 1941.
Memories from the Siberian Usol of an exile from 1949
“The Golgotha of the East began for my family (mom, dad, grandma, brother Andrzej and me) on the night of 25.03.1949 in Vilnius…”, recalls a 55-year-old former exile to Eastern Siberia in 2002 who was deported with her entire family when she was just a few years old.
Ewunia Wendorffówna – Ewa Felińska. Scenes from the exile’s biography (part II)
One may ask how it even became possible for a mother of six orphaned by their father children to join Szymon Konarski’s conspiracy? It is hard to believe that, burdened with the responsibility of a large family, she could (wanted to?) devote herself to conspiratorial activities, knowing the consequences, risking the happiness and safety of her own and her loved ones.
From the Hell of Sybir to a Mexican Paradise – In Photographs
In 1942, approximately 38,000 Polish refugees from the Soviet Union arrived in Iran alongside the newly formed Polish Army. In 1943, around 1,500 of these refugees – children and their caretakers – were sent to the Santa Rosa colony near León, Mexico.
Miracle in Oziornoye
Valentina Vitkovska: On the territory of the North Kazakhstan region, in Tainshin district, in the the vast, boundless steppes, there is the lost settlement of Oziornoye.
The Contribution of Poles to the Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
One of the most important successes of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was, undoubtedly, the construction of the great Trans-Siberian Railway.
Soldiers of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, The Middle East, 1942
The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division was formed in May 1942 in Qastina in the then-territory of Palestine as a result of a merger of the Polish...
Photojournalism: Past and Present in the Steppes of Kazakhstan
I went to Kazakhstan to meet the descendants of Poles deported to the steppes. To the lands that are part of the area defined in the Polish…
Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek – A man who survived two exiles
Kazimierz Świątek was born on 21 October 1914 in Valga, Estonia, to a Polish family. Because of his Polish ancestry, already after the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, he was – together with his mother and younger brother – deported to Siberia when he was only three years old.