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...
Beshenstvo – children from the orphanage in Fastovo, Russian Empire, 1915–1916
Bezhenstvo – children from the orphanage in Fastovo, Russian Empire,
1915–1916.
Polish deportees in Kachyry, Pavlodar Oblast, Kazakhstan 1942
Polish deportees to Kachyry, Pavlodar Oblast, Kazakhstan 1942. Who are they?
People deported to the F. Dzerzhinsky Sovkhoz near Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region, 1944
People deported to the F. Dzerzhinsky sovkhoz near Karasuk, Novosibirsk region, 1944. Who are they?
The personnel of the Polish orphanage in Novy Oskol, 1945-1946
The Personnel of the Polish Orphanage in Novy Oskol in Voronezh Oblast.
In a tailor’s workshop in Biysk, 1946
Eugenia Górecka nee Woźnicka (she is standing the first from the left in the second row) worked in the tailor workshop in Biysk in Altai Krai. The photograph was taken on 29 March 1946. Who are other people from this picture?
Stanisława Lisowska with her friends, Pakhta-Aral, 1953
The girl in the photograph from 1953 (second from the left) is Stanisława Lisowska. She is standing in a field of cotton with her friends. The Lisowski family was from the village of Jurewicze in Grodno Oblast. In 1952, Witold Lisowski was sentenced to 7 years of...
Birch bark notebook of poems written by Maria Gorniak in 1941-1943, Ozierki, Sverdlovsk Region
Eugeniusz Niebelski: Maybe Maria Górniak’s family will one day be found, and then we will know more about her fate in exile and her birch notebook?