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.
Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Through the Lens of a Camera: The 1863 Uprising in Collodion Photography
Andrzej Górski, photographer, set out in the footsteps of the January Uprising. He photographed using a 19th century photographic technique – the so-called wet collodion.
From the Eastern Borderlands to Siberia. Voluntary resettlement of peasants at the turn of the 20th century.
Sergiusz Leończyk: At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, voluntary resettlement, also known as ‘Siberian fever’, began in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seized by Russia as a result of the partitions.
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.
Leon Barszczewski’s (1849–1910) expeditions through the former Emirate of Bukhara
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.
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.












