Strona polska w przygotowaniu KRESY-SIBERIA VIRTUAL MUSEUM WHY
DOES THE WORLD NEED THE KRESY-SIBERIA VIRTUAL MUSEUM? The year
2009 will mark the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World
War 2. Yet one aspect of Poland’s wartime history is hardly
known to most people – the deportation, imprisonment, and other
repression of the inhabitants of the Kresy, or Eastern
Borderlands, on Josef Stalin’s orders, to Soviet slave labor
camps and Gulags in Siberia, Kazakhstan and eastern Asia. Almost
two million Polish citizens suffered this “Gehenna”. Many died
in the camps from hypothermia, lack of nutrition, or diseases
like typhoid or malaria. Others survived to join the Polish
Forces under Allied command battling Nazi Germany in Africa and
Europe, or to see out the war in refugee camps in the Middle
East, Africa, India, New Zealand and Mexico. Most never returned
to their fatherland because it was annexed by the Soviet regime
after the war. The Kresy-Siberia Group is "dedicated to
researching, remembering and recogni