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Novosibirsk

City in south-western Siberia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Siblag, Novosibirsklag, Kamenlag) and POW camps.

Zdzisław Karpowicz

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...

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

Adolf Kučera

Koncem 30. let se Sovětským svazem přelila brutální vlna státního teroru proti vlastním obyvatelům. Oběťmi byli často občané „podezřelých“ národnos...