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Warsaw

Zdzisław Karpowicz

Ján Bačkovský

Born on 24 October 1919 in Štefurov near Bardejov. In 1939 he decided to escape to the USSR and left home at the end of November that year.

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...

Jan Hoppe

Born in Poland in 1902. Politician and journalist arrested by the NKVD in 1945, released in 1947. Two years later arrested by secret police of comm...

Franciszek Michał Amałowicz „Tatar”

Born in Poland in 1903, doctor and oficer of Polish Army in the rank of major. Arrested in November 1944 by Polish communist. In December 1946 sent...

Wanda Chwastowska-Bystram

Born on 30 April 1916, she was sentenced to ten years for espionage and deported to Perm in 1945. She went through harsh camps in Lyovshin and Bere...

"When we left Crimea, everyone sang and cried." Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago

May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean Tatars - is about to ta...