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“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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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…
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.
Gustaw Herling’s archive contains a letter written by him from the Jercewo camp from the governorate in Arkhangelsk to Ostap Ortwin. It has no date, but it was created in the winter of 1940.
Eugeniusz Niebelski: His name was Wiktor Mikulicz, and he looked like a typical Sibirak in his old age – with a thick, black-grey beard and the look of a native. On the back of the photograph was written, in Russian, among other things: a participant in the 1863 Polish uprising and in the 1866 circumpolar uprising. For me it was a total surprise at the time.
The girl in the photograph from 1953 (second from the left) is Stanisława Lisowska. She is standing in a field of cotton with her friends. The...
