Deportees’ daughter
Topics addressed:
Krystyna Zielkiewicz (née Żelazik) – mother; Zbigniew Zielkiewicz – father; Zofia Żelazik (née Kuleszyńska) – grandmother; The Eastern Borderlands (Sarny–Równe); 5th Zasław Uhlan Regiment; military settlers; The Central Industrial District / COP (1936–1939); Soviet repression; Nazi German repression; I mass deportation (10.02.1940); Arkhangelsk – settlement (poselok) Witunino – Kotłas; taiga deforestation; living conditions in Siberia; sicknesses; amnesty (1941); Anders’ Army; The Combat Trail of Anders’ Army; The 2nd Polish Corps ;The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR) (Gʻuzor – Guzor); Iran; Palestine; field hospital (El-Qantara – Egipt); polish emigration (Great Britain – Argentina – Unites States of America / USA); International Committee of the Red Cross / MKCK (Switzerland); trauma; post-memory; nurturing Polish identity; polish cemetery (Uzbekistan);
Place and date of the recording: Rockville (USA) – Białystok (Polska)/ online 24.11.2025
A report in Polish recorded by Katarzyna Remża

