1. Dana’s Story – The background to Deportation Danuta was born in Hutka, near Slonim, in 1925. Her father, Stanislaw, was responsible for the Albertyn

Vilnius – Siberia – Altaisk It was June 1941 and I was 16 years old. I was walking down Wielka Street on my way back

3. Arrival in Exile Aleisk, Kedrovka, Charysh We stopped at Aleisk,  a small town between Omsk and Tomsk having left behind us Novosibirsk and Barnaoul.

Return to Charyshskoye When we returned to Charyshskoye,  we were billeted on some locals. We had to go through our landlord’s kitchen to get to

5. Real Life in Exile We had to change lodgings. Unfortunately, not for the better. On the one hand, we didn’t miss our disagreeable landlady.

To begin with we had to get food. My father and brother had to make several trips to the neighbouring villages to try and exchange

General Ander’s Army We reached the town of Guzar in Uzbekistani Soviet Sociaist Republic. Many people had already died there after a previous outbreak of

There were fewer and fewer sick soldiers and civilians in the field hospital set up in the mosque in Guzar. Despite this people still died

The good news finally came – there was a train! Accustomed to military discipline we marched to the station in full military dress loaded down

During the day we walked up and down the fields and bought eggs and tomatoes very cheaply from the villages. We fried them in our

We found ourselves once again by order of the military heading for an unknown destination – although we did have an inkling having listened to