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Ivano-Frankivsk

Previously known as Stanislaviv. A Polish city after WWI, it was occupied by the Red Army at the end of September 1939. From October 1939 to June 1941 housed an NKVD prison and interrogation centre. After the war the location of a camp for POWs and People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR internees.

Václav Djačuk

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. Arrested entering the USSR in July 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Kolyma. Released in 1943.

Henryka Milewska (Drobik)

Born in 1925 in Stanisławów (todany Ivano-Frankivsk). Deported with mother to Kazakchstan in 1940. Worked in sowchoz as a tractor driver. Released...

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Ivano-Frankivsk

Václav Djačuk

Henryka Milewska (Drobik)

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