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Igor Strojecki: Leon Barszczewski was a pioneer of Polish reportage photography in 19th century.
Ewa Ziółkowska: Last year in Russia, one by one, Polish memorial signs disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Crosses, plaques and entire multi-ton stone monuments were removed. This is the Russian response to Poland’s involvement in helping Ukraine attacked by Russia in February 2022.
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.
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…
Tomasz Kizny: I came to Vorkuta in May 1990, probably as one of the first foreigners who reached these regions of the USSR. The first one who came here voluntarily, because earlier Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Germans and nations of the USSR had been sent to Vorkutlag camps. I came voluntarily but illegally because I had been denied the permission to enter the Vorkuta area, which was then required from foreigners. However, I decided to go…
The Personnel of the Polish Orphanage in Novy Oskol in Voronezh Oblast.
Eugenia Górecka nee Woźnicka (she is standing the first from the left in the second row) worked in the tailor workshop in Biysk in Altai Krai. The photograph was taken on 29 March 1946. Who are other people from this picture?
The Glijer family in Kazakhstan.
The Prejzner family was deported on 10 February 1940 from the Ponikła forester’s lodge in the Białystok Forest District.
