Deportee’s daughter
Topics addressed:
Krystyna Tomaszyk (née Skwarko) – mother; deported to Siberia; leaving Siberia through Persia, coming to New Zealand at the invitation of the country; Czesław Tomaszyk (father) – soldier of the Polish Underground State; Krystyna Skwarko (grandmother of Nina Tomaszyk) – career of orphans from the Pahiatua camp; daughter’s remorse over having a mother unlike children from the Pahiatua camp, care of war orphans by New Zealand officers, warm reception and welcome of Polish orphans in New Zealand; Association of Poles in Auckland; inheritance of Polish surname from mother by children; open conversations about Siberia in the family; preserving the memory of events in Siberia
Place and date of recording: Auckland (New Zeland) / 31.10.2023
Report in English recorded by Tomasz Danilecki
The project “Bolesław Augustis and the Siberian Exiles from New Zealand: Research and Digitization of Selected Archives” was co-financed by the “Polonika” National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad and the City of Białystok. It was implemented by the Widok Cultural Education Association in partnership with the Sybir Memorial Museum and Polish diaspora organizations in New Zealand.
