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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.
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.
Igor Strojecki: The collection of photographs that Leon Barszczewski took between 1885 and 1909 is unique, and perhaps the only one of its kind in this part of Europe.
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.
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.
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.
Dmitriy Panto: The First World War (1914-1918) was the greatest epochal experience for the whole world and for Europe in particular. The war effort forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and seek refuge in safer places. Poles were not only active participants in this conflict on each of the warring sides, but also victims of both warfare and political decisions.
On August 14, a Polish-Soviet military agreement regulating the formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR was officially signed. Now ten of thousands of men, women and children, who wanted to escape Soviet captivity, could head towards Buzuluk, where the formation of Polish units began.
Podcast: The diary of Marianna Waszczuk, a resident of the village of Czeremcha in Podlasie, is a story written at the time of real events, which began with her deportation from her homeland to distant Siberia.
Adam Hlebowicz: The formation of the underground youth organisation the Union of Defenders of Freedom (ZOW – Związek Obrońców Wolności) in Polesia in 1946 arouses amazement and admiration for the heroism and determination of a group of Polish youth. After two years of activity, many of its members found themselves in labour camps in Vorkuta.
