Topics addressed: family history; post-memory; Stanisław Marcinkiewicz (father); Wiktoria Marcinkiewicz (mother); Władysław Marcinkiewicz (uncle); life in GULAG (Workuta, Kołyma); Anders’ Army;  Anders’ soldiers; Wojtek the bear; Battle of Monte Cassino (18.05.1944); repatriation to Gdańsk (1946); repressions against Anders’ men; repression against Home Army (AK) soldiers; Eastern Borderlands (Bielarus – Szczuczyn); post-war deportations (31.03/1.04.1951); Czeremchowo (Irkutsk Oblast); coalfield; Life in the USSR (in the 1950s); repatriation (1955); State Repatriation Office in Nowy Sącz (PUR); Regained Lands (Szczecin, Bolesławiec); exchange of families (Germany – Zimmermann Family); the realities of life in the so-called People’s Republic of Poland; Security Office (UB); interpersonal relationships