From Kolyma to Anders’ Army: Tadeusz Chotomski aka Chodubski

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Marek Kosiński

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Military service under the command of Gen. Władysław Anders proved to be deliverance from almost unavoidable death in a Soviet gulag (labor camp) in Kolyma. Kazimierz Chotomski was a soldier of the September campaign and after its failure, was deported by the Soviets to Siberia. Eventually he joined Anders’ Army...

A page from Tadeusz Chodubski’s photo album with photos of the Corpus Christi celebrations in Quastina, Palestine, June 1942

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From the Holy Land to Italy: Karol Angerman’s Photographs from the Trail of the Carpathian Riflemen

Donated by: Ewa Krystyna Hoffman-Jędruch

For Karol Angerman, the German invasion of Poland meant the beginning of wanderings that would last for thousands of kilometers. He served in the [Polish] Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade and became a chronicler of its history, but his ‘notes’ were taken not by pen, but a more modern tool – a photographic camera.

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,,Basia’s Diary'' 1939–1947

Donated by: Christopher Bik

Wanda Barbara Kociuba was one of hundreds of thousands of Polish children for whom WWII and Soviet deportations meant that the world they knew ceased to exit. During her stay in Siberia (USSR), Iran and Lebanon, Basia wrote a diary – by her own admission – ''for her future children and grandchildren”.

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An Electrician in the Anders’ Army

Donated by: Jolanta Tocholska

In 1938, at the age of twenty, Stanisław Tocholski started a job in a Warsaw electro-technical plant. A year later he was forced to leave it and emigrate. Abroad, he worked in a kolkhoz in Kazakhstan, passed his matriculation exams (mała matura) in Tel Aviv, and fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino.

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