This small kitchen chopping board bears a remarkable message from the past: a record of Gulag prisoners working at the Czornaja Reczka (Black Stream) labour camp outpost in the vicinity of Verkhoturye, beyond the Ural Mountains. A few years ago, the board was donated...

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...

The unrecognised people on the photo taken in 1955 in the Josef Stalin kolkhoz (Plant No. 10) in Kazakhstan.