Topics addressed:

life before the war in the Eastern Borderlands; parents’ history: Maria Wypych (née Węgrzyn) and Jan Wypych; deportation Novosibirsk (USSR); life and work in Sybir; amnesty (1941); Anders’ Army ; evacuation; Uzbek SSR – Uzbekistan; Iran; Polish children in New Zealand (1944) ; the children of Pahiatua; Polish orphans; mother’s work in New Zealand; the Polish community in New Zealand; life in exile; preserving Polish identity; Polish House in Wellington; post-memory; memory; commemoration