Topics addressed: Stanisław Pogorzelski (10.03.190–3.07.2002); Cyprian Makarewicz; Grodno region (Second Polish Republic); Home Army (AK); partisans; German repressions; Soviet repressions; post-war deportations of Home Army soldiers from the Eastern Borderlands (Kresy); Soviet prisons; political prisoners; labor camps / Gulag; lives of prisoners’ families in Poland; death of Stalin (1953); repatriations / repatriates; inhabitants of the Eastern Borderlands; court trials; life and education in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL); trauma of Siberia; patriotism; compensation; post-memory;