The Second World War (1939-1945)

The Siberic Gehenna

The Millions of Poles Deported to the USSR in 1939-41
by Peter K. Gessner (630 words)
The Travails of the Poplewski Family
Translated by Peter K. Gessner & Wanda Slawinska (5,040 words)
You Have Half an Hour ...
Chapter 7 of Klaus Hergt's Exiled to Siberia (4,425 words)
Journey by Cattle Truck to the Frozen North
Chapter 6 of Eugene Krajewski's Straws in the Wind (11,065 words)
Beyond the Urals
Chapter 17 of Aleksander Topolski's Adventures in wartime Russia (8,490 words)
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Slave Labor in Germany

Each village had its colony of Poles
passages from Alexander Janta's 1946 book I Lied to Live (3,020 words)

Atrocities

The Jedwabne Tragedy
translations by Peter K. Gessner from the Polish Press (28 ariticles, 44,100 words)
Koniuchy - 860 words
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The Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw Uprising of '44

Battle of Britain

The Great Air Battle
by Rob Wyatt M.D. (2,110 words)
"My God, They Are Doing It!"
Chapter 8 of Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud's A Question of Honor - The Kosciuszko Squadron (7,420 words)
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