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The paradise of her childhood was Nieśwież, today a town of around 15,000 inhabitants in Belarus. Though she was brutally torn away from that paradise by the Soviets, she always came back there.
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.
There was only the sight of German units departing the city, riding down Lipowa Street, followed by Soviet troops who entered it— a sequence of events that might well have given the impression of a ceremonial march. This was how Białystok fell under Soviet control, a situation that remained until 27 June 1941, with the city once more being seized by the Germans
The Babiel family from Łomżyca near Łomża was deported by the Soviets to Kazakhstan in 1941. From exile, they brought back to Poland a toolbox that helped them survive.
“On 4 September ’45, several families left here—I mean, from Biysk—so we handed one lady the group photograph, so that she could pass it on to you. This lady comes from Bielsk Podlaski. You surely must have received it already. Dad is the only one missing from the photo, because he didn’t want to be photographed.”
The photo shows students from the Polish Aviation Technical School in Halton, UK. Perhaps we could decipher at least some of the names?
On 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, in Bosnia (then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire), the assassination of Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie was successfully carried out. The attack was organised by the Serbian nationalist terrorist group the “Black Hand,” and the assassin who fired the fatal shots was Gavrilo Princip.
If one speaks of the outbreak of the Second World War, generally September 1939 comes to mind. Particular focus is placed on 1 and 17 September —dates signifying the German and Soviet aggression against Poland. Yet nobody can be certain how events would have unfolded had it not been for events that took place in Moscow during the night of 23–24 August 1939. It was at that time that key decisions were made, decisions whose direct consequence was the two invasions of the Republic of Poland. Therefore it would not be erroneous to state that, in reality, the war actually began in August…
Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Almost exactly 80 years after the deportation of Polish soldiers, in the early morning hours of December 8, 2024, local residents discovered that the memorial complex dedicated to the victims of Camp No. 270 in Jogola had been vandalized and desecrated.
