On August 12, 1941, the authorities of the Soviet Union gave "amnesty" to hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia.
The Sikorski-Mayski Agreement - Document that Gave Freedom
The day of 25 June 1941 in Białystok had a tragic both end and beginning.
On May 12, 1935, Marshal Józef Piłsudski died. He was buried at Wawel, in the crypt under the Tower of Silver Bells.
On 30 January 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to launch the largest resettlement operation in the entire history of the Soviet Union, still referred to today as the 'kulak deportation'.
Father Jan Cieplak was auxiliary bishop of the Mogilev archdiocese, at that time the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the world, covering the whole of Russia up to Sakhalin.
