deportations

Holocaust survivor tracks down family of Polish woman who saved her from WWII death camp with the help of Facebook

The youngest daughter of what might be the only nuclear family to have survived the Warsaw ghetto and the deportations to Treblinka has miraculously discovered the relatives of the Polish woman who saved her after a desperate last-minute appeal on Facebook. Aviva Landau/Gal Stern family archive/Public domain

Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…

Harrowing artefacts of those exiled to Siberia, including a child's 'dead teddy bear', go on show at new museum in Białystok

Opening to coincide with the anniversary of Stalin’s invasion of Poland on 17 September, 1939, the Sybir Memorial Museum is the largest and most important institution dealing with deportations to Russia and later the Soviet Union.

Tsimanouskaya well, thanks Poland, Polish envoy in Japan says

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a member of the Belarusian Olympic team who turned for help to the Polish embassy in Tokyo to avoid forced deportation to Belarus, is feeling well and has expressed thanks for Poland's assistance in her situation, Polish ambassador to Japan Pawel Milewski tweeted on Tuesday.

Powerful ‘Art and Memory’ exhibition brings Polish women’s stories of WWII and deportation to life

VIDEO: Entitled ‘Forgotten Force: Art and Memory’ the collages, sketches and paintings are a poignant artistic interpretation of an oral history project completed earlier this year by the Piłsudski Institute in which six Polish women recalled their wartime memories and their later lives as refugees.

Incredible story of Polish children rescued by India’s Maharaja in WWII is turned into beautifully illustrated interactive documentary

Entitled ‘Fajna Ferajna w Indiach’ (Brave Bunch in India) and based on a true story, the film which premieres at Kraków Film Festival today follows the fate of 1,000 children deported to Siberia in 1940 and their eventual rescue after a surprising intervention from India.

Doomed ‘Children of Zamość’: Deportations began 78 years ago today

On the night of November 27, 1942, Germans set about clearing all Poles from the Zamość region to make way for German and Ukrainian colonists. What made this even more tragic was the suffering of around 30,000 Polish children, an estimated 10,000 of whom died.

“It was very cold and we had nothing to eat, and as a result the child died of cold and hunger”: testimonies show horror of Soviet deportations

To mark the 80th anniversary of Soviet deportations of Poles from occupied territories, newly released testimonies make harrowing reading.

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