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...
Jiří Bezděk
Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...
Jozef Bobalik
Born in 1928 in the east of Slovakia. In 1947 his family left for the Soviet Union. In 1948 arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Gulag
Leopold Brumek
Druhý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror „Prchajíce před kapitalistickým vykořisťováním a nezaměstnaností, přijeli před třinácti lety d...
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...
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...
Jurgis Dirvonskis
Born 1926 in Lithuania, 1946 deported to Russia, spent many years in camps in Mordovia and Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Came back to Lithuania in 1959.
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.
Leonid Levko Dohovich
Born in 1935, for political protests he was sentenced to ten years in the Gulag in 1950 at the age of 14. After attempting to escape, he was senten...
Imrich Gablech
Born in 1915. Fled to Poland in 1939 as a military aviator. Arrested by Soviet soldiers and sentenced to five years in the Gulag. Released in 1941.
Anna Havranová
Born on 7 April 1992 in the village of Sinevirská Poľana in Carpathian Ruthenia. Following the Hungarian occupation in 1939 she decided to escape ...
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...
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...
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...
Franciszek Korzeniowski
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...
Sofia Malylju
Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. Studied in Prague. Arrested in Lvov in 1948. Passed through the Gulag at Kolyma and Tayshet. Released in 1956.
Jaroslav Martínek
Born in 1900 in Bohemia. Moved to the USSR in 1923 as a teacher to the Czech minority. Arrested in 1927 and imprisoned on the Solovetsky Islands an...
Dzidra Meldere
Born in 1928 in Latvia, after 1945 in partisan movement, 1949-1956 imprisoned in Gulags in Kazakhstan, return back to Latvia in 1968.
Egon Morgenstern
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 ...
Gertrud Platais - German in female camp
In 1932, she left for the Soviet Union in the hope of a better life. In 1938 she was arrested and sent to the Alzhir women's camp in Kazakhstan. Sh...
Jan Plovajko
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...
Yelena Posnik
Born in Russia in 1924, she was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag in 1945 as a twenty-one year old for speaking to German soldiers as a German tea...