This small booklet is used by Orthodox believers to record the names of loved ones of the deceased. It belonged to the Auchimowicz family.
Commemoration book of the Auchimowicz Family, Nairobi, 1944
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From the labour camp to Kultura (the case of Herling-Grudziński)
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.
Rybnica 1863. Monument to the tsarist ‘fighters’ who died in battles with Czachowski’s insurgents
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…
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.
The Table of a Polish Landowner Exiled to Siberia in the 19th Century
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.
Adolf Saraniecki’s name day card from Poles in Kozhavod, Kazakhstan
Greeting-card given to Adolf Saraniecki, delegate of the Polish Embassy in Semipalatinsk, by his countrymen from Koż-Zawod on June 17, 1942.
List of items left by the Klein family on the day of deportation from Białystok, 1940
The Klein family was deported from Bialystok on April 13, 1940. Soviets made a list of items left by the family.
Krysia Jaworowska from Zaścianki
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...
The Nowik Family from Zababie
This photograph of the Nowik family from the military hamlet of Zababie near Pruzhana.
The Klein Family of Supraśl
Olga Klein’s family deported to Kazakhstan in April 1940.