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.
They failed to join Anders
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The Bezhensty and Prisoners of War in the Steppes of Kazakhstan and Central Asia – Presence and Repatriation
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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.
About the unique diary of Marianna Waszczuk (in Polish)
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.
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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.
She Kindled a Light of Hope: The Extraordinary Fortune of Dr. Zofia Teliga-Mertens and Her Family
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A commander’s notebook reveals the fates of exiles
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.
Resettled in Africa on the way to Poland
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.
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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.
Ewunia Wendorffówna – Ewa Felińska. Scenes from the exile’s biography (part II)
One may ask how it even became possible for a mother of six orphaned by their father children to join Szymon Konarski’s conspiracy? It is hard to believe that, burdened with the responsibility of a large family, she could (wanted to?) devote herself to conspiratorial activities, knowing the consequences, risking the happiness and safety of her own and her loved ones.