Updated June
2011
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Deportations to Siberia
Soviet labor
camps & GULAGS
Displaced
Persons' (DP) camps
Katyn
The Middle
East: Persia (Iran), Iraq,
Palestine and Egypt
Poland in
World War 2 - General
Polish
Forces in World War 2
Polish exiles
in Africa, India, New Zealand,
Australia and Mexico
Polish
History - general
Directories and
maps
The Kresy
Archive
resources
Genealogical
resources
Associations
and groups
Miscellaneous
The
Deportations to Siberia
- The Polish Diaspora
Project
This is the website for an
oral history project where Polish Displaced Persons and ex-Servicemen
and Women from all over the world tell their stories. Members and
students of the Polish Diaspora are invited to become involved by
sharing their experiences and documents.
- Polish-Soviet WW 2
claims and testimony
about the
Rippentrop-Molotov agreement to divide Poland in 1939, useful links on
the deportations, and info on the initiative to see up a Fund for
Polish Victims of Soviet Crimes of Genocide and Deportations in WW 2.
- Deportation, 'Amnesty',
and the Polish Diaspora
Lecture by Prof. Tadeusz
Piotrowski for the Polish-Canadian publication 'Miedzy Nami'.
- The General Langfitt
Story: Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal
and Resettlement
story (and photos) made
available by the Australian Department of Immigration &
Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs.
- Kolyma (Siberia) - the
Land of Gold and Death
detailed autobiography by
Polish soldier and survivor of Kolyma, Stanislaw J. Kowalski..
- White Auschwitz of Kolyma
a second (shorter) account
of Kolyma by Stanislaw J. Kowalski.
- The History of the
Czapski family
has useful articles about
the deportations, on the Association of Former Pupils of Polish
Schools, about reunions of Sibiraki, and a list of links to other
sites.
- Poland's Holocaust - A
Family Chronicle of Soviet and Nazi Terror
the memoirs of Janina
Sulkowska-Gladun.
- Pictures from Siberia
from the life of a Polish Soldier after September 1939
The family of Zbigniew
Ireneusz Wajszczuk recounts his experiences as a survivor of the
deportations through photos and maps.
- Tales of the Deported -
My life in exile 1939-1946
the online memoirs
of Danuta Gradosielska (nee
Maczka).
- A Siberian Diary
the online memoirs of
Zygmunt Frankel.
- By cattle truck into
slavery
the online memoirs of
Feliks Chustecki.
- Trying to get enough to
eat
the online memoirs of
Romuald Lipinski - including contact details.
- Romuald Lipinski: Poland - Siberia 1941;
the knock on the door ——
Pologne -
Sibérie
1941;
on frappe a la porte
the online memoirs of
Romuald Lipinski for 'Timewitness'.
- Romuald Lipinski: The journey to Siberia
—— Le voyage en
Sibérie
the online memoirs of
Romuald Lipinski for 'Timewitness'.
- Romuald Lipinski: Trying to get enough to
eat
——
Essayer de manger a sa
faim - (3)
the online memoirs of
Romuald Lipinski for 'Timewitness'.
- Romuald Lipinski: The Bath
—— Le bain
the online memoirs of
Romuald Lipinski for 'Timewitness'.
- Death by a Thousand
Cuts
Zofia Ptasnik's diary of
deportation, forced labour, and death in Kazakhstan: April 13, 1940-May
26, 1941.
- BLANK PAGES - The Soviet
Genocide against the Polish People
review of book by G.C.
Malcher with publisher details.
- Polish deportees in the
Soviet Union
excerpts from book by
Michael Hope.
- The Horror Trains: A
Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War II
review of book by Wanda E.
Pomykalski.
- The Brief Sun - a novel
Robert Ambros tells the
story of 16 year old Andrzej and his companions in a Norther Siberian
labor camp in 1941, and beyond.
- Six Years 'Til Spring -
A Polish Family's Odyssey
review of autobiograph yby
Teresa Mikosz-Hreview of historical novel by Robert Aintzke
- September 17, 1939 - The
Soviet aggression on Poland
links to a virtual photo
exhibition.
- Na Czerwonym Szlaku (On
the Red Trail)
the memoirs of Stanislaw J.
Kowalski.
- Polish children Beg for
Help in 1942
Petition to General
Wielikowski at the Polish War Mission from Polish citizens Alfreda
Borowska and Lidia Fiedorowna
- The deportation story of
Eugenia Lipinska Stankiewicz
- The Siberic Gehenna:
Travails of the Poplewski Family
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Soviet
labor camps & Gulags
DP
camps
Katyn
- Katedra Polowa
List of several thousand
names entered in the memory
records and "Bialoruska lista Katynska" with the names of all KOP
(Border Patrol) officers/members murdered in 1940.
- Katyn - Family Stories
moving accounts by
relatives of men arrested and put to death in the Katyn forest.
- Katyn - The Forest
Massacre
includes history, maps,
useful weblinks, and photographs.
- The Lost 10,000 A September 1979 article by Louis FitzGibbon.
-
A Katyn Diary of Leon Gladun, Polish Officer
- Katyn Memorial Wall
Includes background, copy
of Stalin's order, and Memorial Wall of names of the murdered
- The Katyn Forest
Massacre: Morals in
American Foreign Policy
an essay by Prof. Janusz K.
Zawodny, PhD
-
The Katyn Massacre: An Assessment of Its Significance As A Public and
Historical Issue in the United States and Great Britain, 1940-1993
A thesis presented to the
Department of History Western Illinois University
by Louis Robert Coatney, December 1993
- Katyn
photographs
Photographs of the Katyn
massacre. Most of these photographs were taken by the Germans and
published in: Der
Massenmord in Walde von Katyn Ein Tatsachenbericht (The
Massacre in the Katyn Forest an Examination of the Evidence), Germany,
1943.
- Katyn Forest massacre -
Final report to US Congress
Final Report of
the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the
Facts, Evidence and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre of the
United States House of Representatives (22 December 1952): This report
is 54 pages in pdf form. The entire report is over 2,000 pages long and
not on-line.
-
A Special Operations Executive (UK) perspective
"The Katyn Massacre: an SOE Perspective" is in two parts. In Part I, a
brief account of the Special Operations Executive and its records
explains the nature of the documentation. This sets the context for
Part II, a short study on the Katyn massacre and the British
Government's reaction to it.
Because of the
covert nature of SOE operations, and their focus on propaganda and
sabotage as part of the war effort, these files cast a new perspective
on a number of wartime issues.
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British reactions to the Katyn Massacre, 1943-2003
The centrepiece is a
previously unpublished memorandum by the late Dr. Rohan D'Olier Butler,
Historical Adviser to Secretaries of State from 1963-1982. He was set
the task in 1972 of bringing together, for internal use, all the
available evidence from British official records. The 'Butler
memorandum' documents in detail the views of the British Government on
Katyn from 1943 on. It therefore gives an accurate account of what the
British Government knew about Katyn, and why they maintained the public
line about the massacre throughout the Cold War.
-
Our
Shame Still Lies in Katyn Forest
by Kevin Myers, The
Telegraph, London April 27, 2003
-
The
Katyn Controversy: Stalin's Killing Field
by Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA
-
Transcript of Katyn testimony at Nuremberg
In this testimony, German
and Soviet experts contradict each other as to when the deaths occurred
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The Middle East: Persia (Iran), Iraq, Palestine and Egypt
Poland in World War 2 -
general
- Poland In Exile
This web site is dedicated
to the men and women who left Poland to fight against the Nazis and
Russian Communism in the 1939 - 1945 War. Includes information on the
Polish Airforce, Polish Army, Polish Resettlement, The Warsaw Rising,
The Home Army, Blackpool 1940, Enigma and other stories.
- Nazi-Soviet Relations
1939-1941
The Avalon Project at the
Yale Law School.
- Warsaw Uprising
This site is dedicated to
all those who fought for their freedom in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944
as well as all those who, as civilians, perished in the effort.
- The Poles - Victims of
the Nazi Era
Originally
published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a pamphlet
titled 'POLES'. Briefly covers invasion, occupation, kidnapping of
children, forced labour camps and Polish resistance. Includes a
bibliography.
- The Nazi Occupation of
Poland
EyeWitness - history
through the eyes of those who lived it
- The Soviet Occupation of
Poland
A verbatim transcript of the publication "The Soviet Occupation of
Poland", Free Europe Pamphlet #3, edited by Casimir Smogorzewski.
It was originally published in December 1940 and so provides a unique
early view of the occupation, before Katyn was discovered.
- Nazi-Soviet
"Non-Aggression" Treaty
The text of the Nazi-Soviet
Non-Aggression Pact including the unpublished secret additional
protocol relating to Poland
- Nazi-Soviet
"Non-Aggression" Treaty
Another site which provides
the text of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact including the
unpublished secret additional protocol relating to Poland
- Genocide of the Poles in
the Kresy Region
This website, in Polish and
English, describes the 1943-44 murderous ethnic cleansing of the Polish
population in the eastern borderlands of the Lwow, Tarnopol, Wolyn and
Stanislawow voivodeships by Ukrainian nationalists whilst under Nazi
German occupation. Some maps and a searchable database are included.
WARNING - contains graphic images which may be
highly upsetting
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A list of printed
publications describing
Polish victims of WWII
Slavic and East European
Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Polish Forces in World War 2
Polish
exiles in Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia and Mexico
Polish
History - general
Directories
and maps
- Archival Maps of Poland
1919-1939
These topographical maps
are from the Polish Military Geographical Institute. They were rated
amongs the best in the world.
- Shtetlseeker town locator
search towns in Central and
Eastern Europe, to display latitude and longitude for each location, as
well as location on an interactive map.
- Detailed map of the
Ukraine online
Ukraine is broken into
regions, and these into areas surrounding major towns. Place names
appear in English, Polish and Ukrainian
- Map of Poland 1921-1939
- Ordering detailed
Pre-war maps of Poland, including the Kresy
- Ordering high quality
maps of the USSR from the former Soviet General Staff
- An interactive map of
Poland (with search)
- A pre-war map of Lwow
- Polish Genealogical
Society of
America's gazetteer
for locating places that
were at one time or another (up to the end of 19th century) under
Polish rule
-
Slownik
geograficzny (1880-1914)
A very detailed gazetteer of
Polish placenames; the main source of information for the one listed
above
- Polish phone book
- Canada phone book
- USA phonebook
- Ukraine phone book
- The 1929 Polish business directory
You can search for a
village, town or city and it shows all the trades
carried on as well as the names of those people carrying out the
business in alphabetical order. It also gives details of the place,
e.g. number of inhabitants, location, nearest railway, if there was a
church etc. It lists almost every town and village in Poland
-
Rocznik oficerski (Officers' Annual) 1932
——
1924 ——
1928
Publications listing all Polish officers in active service
with their names, ranks, units and functions.
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The
Kresy
Archive
Resources
- The Hoover Institution -
an overview of the
Polish Collection
The Hoover Institution
Archives houses the largest repository of documents pertaining to
twentieth-century Poland outside of Warsaw.
- The Hoover Institution -
Search Tool
- The Jozef Pilsudski
Institute of America
- The Electronic Museum -
The Santa Rosa Polish refugee colony, Mexico
- The Electronic Museum -
Soviet Deportations of Polish Nationals
- Archives of the Polish Ministry of Information
and Documentation, 1943
- The KARTA organisation
- Names of Poles Repressed by the Soviet Union
from the KARTA Center - an
independent NGO, documenting and popularizing the recent history of
Poland and Eastern Europe.
- Rogozinski Papers
Papers of a former Polish
Army officer and immigrant to Milwaukee engaged in organizing the
Association of Veterans of the Second World War in the Polish Armed
Forces. Included are several albums compiled by Rogozinski containing
papers, copies of documents, photographs, and text, concerning himself,
other Polish immigrants, and veterans' activities. Also included is a
small newsclippings file about Rogozinski and the Association.
- Records of the
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees
Finding aid to records in
the US Department of State, of the Intergovernmental Committee on
Refugees
- Archival Sources for the
Study of Polish Canadians
Based on Myron Momryk's
"Archival Sources For The Study Of Polish Canadians"
- American Relief for
Poland- Archives
Finding aid to records,
1929-1968, of the Philadelphia Chapter of American Relief for Poland.
Consist of correspondence, minutes, financial records, and other
materials relating to the chapter's aid to Poland, Polish refugees, and
Polish prisoners of war, particularly during World War II.
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