Topics addressed:

first mass deportation (10.02.1940); Arkhangelsk; Aleksandra Grzybowicz (mother); Lviv; World War I; resettlement of landowners; Kremenets (Ukraine); Gulag; life in barracks; school; 2nd Polish Corps; Iran; Monte Cassino (1944); dilemma of refugee destination between New Zealand, Africa and Mexico; ship journey from Bombay to San Francisco via New Zealand; ship’s Manifest list with names of passengers; Santa Rosa, León, Mexico; Vancouver, Canada; family ties to Poland