Teja. Krasnoyarsk Krai. A group of deportees and their guards. Sybir Memorial Museum collection
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 https://swiatsybiru.pl/en/a-group-of-deportees-with-their-guards-teja-krasnoyarsk-krai-1940-1945/ in September 2023, we knew that Jan and Józefa Witusiak had been deported from the Borderlands on 10 February 1940 with their seven children: Władysława (15 years old), Mieczysław (13 years old), Wanda (10 years old), Kazimierz (8 years old), Tadeusz (5 years old), Albina (2 years old) and one-year-old Franciszek. But where exactly were they deported from? Four villages located today in Podkarpacie or already in Ukraine were listed as the birthplaces of individual members: Wola Dębowiecka, Załęże, Jakubowce and Urytwa. Over time, the story of the photograph gradually began to clarify.
Read the entire article in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/historia-jednej-fotografii/