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Włodzimierz Bolecki: ‘As a writer, I was born in a labour camp,’ Gustaw Herling-Grudziński said many times. This approach remains valid today and is reflected in the writer’s path to becoming an editor at Kultura.
Piotr Popławski discusses the circumstances behind the formation of Berling’s Army and the Sybirak elements of this story with Prof. dr hab. Karol Olejnik the eminent historian and researcher of the Polish army.
On August 14, a Polish-Soviet military agreement regulating the formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR was officially signed. Now ten of thousands of men, women and children, who wanted to escape Soviet captivity, could head towards Buzuluk, where the formation of Polish units began.
Podcast: The diary of Marianna Waszczuk, a resident of the village of Czeremcha in Podlasie, is a story written at the time of real events, which began with her deportation from her homeland to distant Siberia.
The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Division was present, a division which one and a half year earlier was sent to fight in the battle of Lenino.
Wojciech Marciniak: She kindled a light of hope: the extraordinary fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and her family.
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.
Adam Czesław Dobroński: A total of 19 Polish settlements were set up in Africa, with more than 20,000 Polish citizens living in them. They arrived by sea transport from Persia to the ports of Mombasa, Tanga and Dar es Salam, Mozambique, and from there were transported inland.
Nadezhda Kubik: For several years, the Pavlodar Land became home to over 11,000 Polish citizens.
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…
