On May 23rd (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m, next meeting in the series with travelers, writers, and people curious of the world will take place.

This time, our guests will be members of the „JednoŚladami Andersa” team, who in several teams, have cycled almost the whole trail traveled by Anders’ Army — from Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, the Holy Land, Egypt, Italy to Great Britain.

A scout bike relay race entitled „JednoŚladami Andersa” was organized by the World Scout Jamboree, the Polish Scouting Association, and the association called “Nowak’s Africa”. The Sybir Memorial Museum, as part of the sponsorship, supported the organizers and participants substantively — we conducted historical lectures, thanks to which they learned the exact route of Anders’ Army and could plan the route intentionally. During the journey, cyclists contacted us multiple times to get information about the places they were passing through.

The „JednoŚladami Andersa” project aimed to remind people of the route of the army, which General Władysław Anders formed in 1941 from Polish citizens residing in the USSR — among them thousands of Siberian deportees. Thousands of civilians — women, children, and elderly — were evacuated with the army. For all of them, the trek with Anders Army was the only chance to leave the ‘Soviet hell.’

Cyclists started in Kazakhstan in November 2022. They reached the finish line in Edinburgh (by the statue of Wojtek the Bear) in July 2023..

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