AUDIO

Topics addressed:

Tadusz Chwiedź (1935–2023); sybiracks identity; post-memory; family memories; II mass deportation (13.04.1940); life, work and conditions in exile; Kazakh SRS(Pawłodar); children’s experience; trauma; historical education in the period of the so-called Polish People’s Republic; historical tabu; activities of the Association of Siberian Deportees; Białystok Branch of the Association of Siberian Deportees; International March in Remembrance of Siberian Deportees (Białystok); Sybiracks community; Sybiracks traditions; commemoration.

Topics addressed:

IV mass deportation (21.06.1941); Karasie (Altai Krai); work in kolkhoz; relationships with locals; barter trading; cultivating faith and Polish traditions; a ban on discussing deportation after the war; involvement in the Sybiracs Association (since 1991)

Topics addressed:

Adolf Saraniecki (1884–1944); Lviv (1939–1940); II mass deportation (13–14.04.1940);  Saraniecki family (wife Wanda, daugthers: Aldona, Danuta, Irena, mother: Teofilia); Kokpektynka – Semipalatynsk – Almaty (Kazakh SRS); delegations of the Polish Embassy (1941–1942); gulag (Maryińsk); life in Kazakhstan (1941–1944); repatriation of wife and daughters to Poland – Kraków (1946); life in emigration (Sweden); II nd and III rd generation; post-memory

Topics addressed:

Halina i Stanisław Olszewski; Jerzy Szrodecki, Giedroyc lineage; Kożany estate; Lewickie (railway station, departure of transport to Siberia); porcelain potty; Omsk territory; displaced persons from Ukraine (1936);“Green Gai” settlement (poselok) (Kazakhstan); work in the collective farm in the barn; death of mother (grandmother); visiting a grave in Kazakhstan; Sybiraks community, Sybiraks identity, landowners’ association; the influence of Siberia on the home atmosphere; first meetings of Sybiraks (1990s); exile after the January Uprising(1863–1864); Jerzy Szrodecki fighting at Monte Cassino (1944);problems and traumas in the family; repression by the Security Office

Topics addressed: 

childhood before deportation; father’s imprisonment by Soviets; deportation (May 22, 1948); Dierbiniec *sovkhoz* (Krasnoyarsk Krai); forced labor during deportation; education in the Soviet system; mother’s care; return to Poland (1955); graduation from the Teacher Training High School in Giżycko; work as a teacher; ban on speaking about Siberia; involvement in the Association of Sibir Deportees and the Community of Grandchildren of Sibir Deportees

Topics addressed: 

Dekulakization in Vilnus region (1946); deportation (1949); Usolye-Sibirskoye (Irkutsk Oblast); education in soviet school; work in kolkhoz; attempt to escape from Siberia; contact with the local population; anti-Polish propaganda; diseases during deportation; return to Poland (1957)

Temas:

Segunda República Polaca; Segunda Guerra Mundial; deportación; Siberia; recuerdos y archivos familiares; llegada a México; hacienda Santa Rosa – León, Guanajuato (1943–1947); identidad polaca; religión católica; trauma; refugiados polacos;

Topics addressed:

Second Polish Republic; World War II; deportation; Sybir; family memoirs and archives; arrival in Mexico; Hacienda Santa Rosa – León, Guanajuato (1943–1947); Polish identity; Catholicism; trauma; Polish refugees;

Topics addressed:

childhood before deportation (1930s); Aleksandra Kowalska-Sira (mother); first mass deportation (February 10, 1940); the course of the deportation; Talmyenka (Altai Krai); indoctrination in the boarding school; child labour; illnesses; Anders’ Army (1941); 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw Infantry Division / Berling’s Army (1943); assistance to other *Sybiraks* after returning to Poland; sharing memories of the deportation with the family; visit to the site of her childhood; impact of the mother’s experiences on the daughter’s life; post-memory

Topics addressed: 

village of Sarny; deportation of officers’ families; conditions during transport; mother’s work at a dairy; relationships with other deportees; voyage to Africa from Pahlavi (Iran); material support from the United States; mother’s work at the transit camp in Makindu (Kampala); Polish school in Koja (Uganda); Departure to England (1949); the ship “Alcantara”; life in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Topics addressed:

Mass deportation (February 10, 1940); deportation of civilian settlers; poselok (settlement) of Kubala – Vologda region (USSR); “Children of Siberia” (1940–1946); daily life in exile; logging and timber rafting work; death of father Antoni; journey to Kazakhstan (turn of 1941/1942); Polish office in Kuybyshev; Anders’ Army; Kościuszko Army; Polish orphanage and Polish center in Dzhambul; adoption by a Polish caregiver; kolkhoz (collective farm) near Dzhambul; tracing the fates of lost siblings and mother.

Topics addressed: 

Kamionka Strumiłowa (near Lviv); escape to Romania; Uzbekistan; 2nd Polish Corps; workshop at the 15th Poznań Uhlan Regiment; Iran; Palestine; training in Egypt with a reconnaissance regiment; invasion of Italy; Battle of Monte Cassino; Bologna; Polish settlement in Bulawayo (Africa); England; parents’ emigration to Argentina

Topics addressed:

outbreak of World War II (1939); second mass deportation (13–14 April 1940); kolkhoz Beloyarsk (USSR); work on railway construction; work in a brickyard (Akmolinsk – Kazakh SSR); conditions in Kazakhstan; Union of Polish Patriots / ZPP (1943); repatriation (March 2–3, 1946)

Topics addressed: 

Soviet prisons in the Eastern Borderlands (1939–1940); second mass deportation (April 13–14, 1940); conditions during transport; Donetskoye settlement (kolkhoz No. 2) – North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakh SSR); religious life during deportation; schooling in the Soviet system; Sikorski–Maysky Agreement (1941); post-return trauma; difficulties gaining admission to university; post-war repressions by the UB – “Urząd Bezpieczeństwa” (Security Office) (1947–early 1950s); completion of Gymnasium in Ciechanowiec; graduation from the College of Pharmacy/Drugstore Management in Warsaw; studying at the University of Warsaw (Russian philology); academic career.

Topics addressed: 

life in the Sanok–Czarnawczyce area during the interwar period (1920–1939); outbreak of World War II (1939); German occupation (1939); Soviet occupation (1940); first mass deportation (10 February 1940); transport and conditions in the railcars (1940); Siberia – Udachna labor camp (Irkutsk Oblast, USSR); kolkhoz „Trud” (Shelekhovo – USSR – 1942); work norms; labour in the taiga; contact with loved ones; relations with other deportees; religiosity; Union of Polish Patriots / ZPP (1943); repatriation (April 23–26, 1946); life in Sanok

Topics addressed: 

Volhynia – Lavrov (1918–1939); 2nd mass deportation (13–14.04.1940); transport to Kazakhstan (1940); work and conditions in kolkhoz; Maykain (Kazakh SSR); relations with Kazakhs; contact with family in Poland; schooling in Kazakhstan; repatriation – Łobza (1946); the situation of *Sybiraks* after the war in the so-called Polish People’s Republic (1945–1989)

Topics addressed:

The story of the father (Piłsudski’s legionnaire); 1st mass deportation (February 10, 1940); Siberia – Sielsoviet Minayevka (Asinovsky district – Novosibirsk oblast – USSR); North Caucasus – Sovkhoz “Komor” (Stavropol Krai – Molotov oblast – USSR); school in Siberia; diseases; living conditions in Siberia; Polish Army in the USSR (Berling’s Army); repatriation (March 1946); Lublin – Gryfice – Vyshogora; work as a teacher of Russian language in Western Pomerania; starting a family

Topics addressed:  

Warsaw (1918–1939); Vorokhta – Eastern Borderlands (1939); Lviv (1939–1940); Third mass deportation (29.06.1940); posiołek Khvoynyj (near Aldan) – Yakutia (USSR); the story of Stefan Jurewicz – father (1891–1967); Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – Volga German ASSR (1941); repatriation – Warsaw (7.06.1946); medical studies at the University of Warsaw; life in Warsaw