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Eugeniusz Niebelski: On 20 and 21 October 1863, two battles took place in the Sandomierz region against the Tsarist army. There are two monuments devoted to the fallen soldiers…
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.
Wiesław Caban: The Polish landowners sent to Siberia did not leave much information about the meals they ate there. The vast majority of them mentioned it in their diaries and letters to their families in passing. They did not want to worry their relatives about their difficult financial situation and felt remorse that by plotting or fighting in the January Uprising, they had exposed them to the loss of their estates and a great deal of other suffering.
Greeting-card given to Adolf Saraniecki, delegate of the Polish Embassy in Semipalatinsk, by his countrymen from Koż-Zawod on June 17, 1942.
The Klein family was deported from Bialystok on April 13, 1940. Soviets made a list of items left by the family.
Krysia Jaworowska was a year and a half old at the time of deportation. Together with her parents, Józef and Olga, and her uncle she was deported on...
This photograph of the Nowik family from the military hamlet of Zababie near Pruzhana.
Olga Klein’s family deported to Kazakhstan in April 1940.
A photograph of Heronima Dzierma, who was deported to Siberia in February 1940.
Photo of Stanisława Urbanowicz deported in 1941 from Krasnoborek to Bolshaya Yerba.
