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Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Resistance fighter, journalist, writer, literary critic, soldier and Gulag survivor, he belonged to the generation of people brought up in Poland b...

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...