Stanisław Akucewicz
Born in Poland in 1923. Deported to the USSR in February 1940 together with his family. Forced to work cutting forests for three years. Joined the ...
Irena Bondarowicz
Roland Bude
A Czech German arrested in 1950 for his political involvement with the Stasi and handed over to the NKVD. He was sentenced to 25 years and deported...
Zofia Daniszewska (Kłusek)
Ilona Gesko
Born in 1925 in Velký Blh. In 1945 was arrested and sent to the USSR. She was forced to worked there for three years.
Hilja Heinsoo
Born in 1932 in Estonia, in 1949 deported with parents to Irkutsk oblast in Siberia, back home in 1955.
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...
Zdzisław Karpowicz
Irena Kawaschová
In March 1945 she was arrested and taken by Soviet soldiers to Kolyma, where her son Ján was born in the Gulag. After 1953 she returned to Slovakia...
Ján Košút
Ján Košút was born in 1926 in the village of Vígľaš (Detva district) as one of nine children in the family of a railway worker. He attended element...
Ivan Kováč - From Prague to the Gulag to Solzhenitsyn
The unknown story of a man abducted by the Soviets from Prague to the Gulag in 1948. There he led a successful revolt and inspired Alexander Solzhe...
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...
Erika Palmipuu
Born in 1934 in Estonia. In 1941 deported to Kirovsk region in USSR. After 5 years she escaped, but in 1950 was sent back. She came back to Estonia...
Lucjan Pietruszko „Sałatek”
Born in Poland in 1926. Soldier of the Home Army. Interned in July 1944 and drafted into a penal batalion. Released in January 1945. Several weeks ...
Roberts Pūriņš
Born in 1920 in Latvia, after Soviet occupation 1940 in resistance movement, sent to Gulag for 3 years. Returned home and arrested again in 1951, d...
Irena Saulutė Valaitytė-Špakauskienė
1928 born in Kaunas, Lithuania. 1941 deported to Siberia, she spent 1 year in Altai region, 5 years on islands in northern Yakutia. In 1958 she cam...
Irena Wołoszczuk (Kropka)
Born in 1933 in Antoniny in pre-war Poland (today Ukaraine). Deported to Vitjunino in 1940. Forced to work at wood cutting. After the Sikorski-Majs...
Pavel Zoc
Born in Ukraine in 1900. Emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1919. Arrested by the NKVD in May 1945. Sentenced to 10 years in Pechorlag. Returned to Pra...