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Lidia Michalska-Bracha: The story of the life and artistic activity during the deportation to Siberia of Helena Skirmuntowa (Skirmunttowa) (1827-1874), a painter and sculptor from the Pinsk region, creator of the excellent historical chessboard – an artistic vision of the relief of Vienna by John III Sobieski.
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…
Bartłomiej Krzysztan: It was a stormy evening, Saturday, August 29, 1931. For almost three weeks, deputy Tadeusz Hołówko had been a patient in Truskawiec, health resort located in Bieszczady mountains known for its mineral springs, which belonged back then to the Lviv province.
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.
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.
Józef Osmołowski (1820–1881), unlike the entire galaxy of outstanding exiles, made a career in the tsarist administration of his own free will, becoming one of the most outstanding 19th-century ethnographers studying the community of nomadic Kazakhs.
“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.
Małgorzata Król: How do you call her, a woman who, as the ONLY exile women, also became the mother of a bishop-exile, who later became a saint of the Catholic Church? The only one is Ewa Felińska née Wendorff.
