In the second half of August 1943, the Poleski Railway Station in Bialystok was again bursting at the seams with thousands of people. But this time it was not the Soviets who were carrying away successive groups of deportees.

On August 12, 1941, the authorities of the Soviet Union gave "amnesty" to hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia.

There was a time when large numbers of Poles in the Soviet Union lost their lives simply because of their origin and surname. One of the elements of the “Great Terror” unleashed by Stalin in 1937-1938 was the so-called “Polish Operation”, in which NKVD officers, on suspicion of espionage, mu