Jerzy Rohoziński: On the night of 18 April 1952, the Soviet authorities deported more than five thousand ethnic Poles from the Byelorussian SSR to southern Kazakhstan, condemning them to forced labor on the cotton fields of the Pakhta-Aral state farm.
Nobility of the Spirit – Julian Glaubicz Sabiński in Exile
Małgorzata Król: This honest and uncompromising prisoner — though it may sound like a paradox — strove to remain free even in the yolk of captivity.
Siberia Through the Eyes of Polish Jews
Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat: According to NKVD sources, the Jews deported deep into the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940 accounted for more than 84% of all those deported at that time. They were placed in 251 special settlements within the Soviet Union.
The first Polish exiles in Sybir
Bartłomiej Garczyk: In the 1660s, during the Polish-Moscow wars, groups of Poles defending the cities and fortresses of Smolensk and Severow were imprisoned and taken deep into the Muscovite state and incorporated into the crews of the fortresses there.
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.
In Tambov and Kirsanov… The life in exhile of Helena Skirmuntowa, painter and sculptor
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.
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…
Tadeusz Hołówko. From Exile in Turkestan to Independent Poland
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.
They failed to join Anders
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.
She Kindled a Light of Hope: The Extraordinary Fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and Her Family
Wojciech Marciniak: She kindled a light of hope: the extraordinary fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and her family.












