Topics addressed:

Life in pre-war Poland; Napoleon Modl – father; Franciszka Modl (née Dąbrowska) – mother; soviet repressions; prison in Bialystok; III mass deportation (June 1940); preparation for deportation; Sybir – kolkhoz (Jewgaszino – Omsk Oblast Omsk); German-Soviet war (22.06.1941); livinghood conditions; families reunion; raising children – motherhood – mother’s role; nationalities in kolkhoz ; steamboat on the Irtysh River; repatriation (1946); Regained Lands (Bolesławiec – Dolny Śląsk); Red Army in Poland (1945); reminiscence about Russians; Flight and expulsion of Germans after World War II; polish emigration (Australia); life in Polish People’s Republic; Solidarność; opinions about Sybir; recollections; post-memory;