Who are they: Vercia and Marysia – two women from the Soviet Republic of Komi?
Helena Krycka was deported by the Soviets in September 1946 to the Komi ASRS from Friedland in Prussia, where the Germans had sent her for collaborating with the Home Army. As an ‘enemy of the people’, a Soviet court sentenced her to 10 years in gulags with neither...
Employees of “the Josef Stalin kolkhoz”, The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, 1955.
The unrecognised people on the photo taken in 1955 in the Josef Stalin kolkhoz (Plant No. 10) in Kazakhstan.
Polish orphanage in Staevo
This photograph, taken in 1945, shows the children and caretakers of the Polish orphanage in Staevo, Komi ASRS. Perhaps someone can help us to recognise them?
The dramatic fate of Franciszek Bruchnicki
Franciszek Bruchnicki served in General Berling’s Army. In September 1944, he fought in the Czerniaków bridgehead, on the outskirts of Warsaw. A year later, he died in the gulag in Magadan. How did he end up there?
The story of one photograph
This photograph came to our Museum from the family of Jan Witusiak, who was deported with his family to the village of Teja in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Before we published it on...
A Group of Deportees with Their Guards, Teja, Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1940-1945
The Witusiak family was deported on 10 February 1940 to the village of Teja in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Jan worked at floating timber.
Airmen of the 300th Bomb Squadron “Land of Mazovia”, Faldingworth, United Kingdom, 1945–1946
The man standing in the middle is Eugeniusz Pietrzak. Who are the men standing around him?
Deportees in the Seida sovkhoz, Komi Republic, 1955
In 1955 Veronika Pouch, born in Vilnius in 1914, was in the Seida sovkhoz in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic…
Soldiers of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, The Middle East, 1942
The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division was formed in May 1942 in Qastina in the then-territory of Palestine as a result of a merger of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade and the 9th and 10th Infantry Divisions. The backbone of this unit was volunteers...