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 ...
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...
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.
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
Irena Bondarowicz
Zofia Daniszewska (Kłusek)
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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
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...
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.
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...
Egon Morgenstern
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 ...
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...