The permanent exhibition of the Sybir Memorial Museum features numerous artefacts connected with women’s stories. Among them is a remarkably well-preserved sheepskin vest belonging to Małgorzata Młynarz. Deported in April 1940 together with her entire family, she wrapped her one-month-old daughter Basia in it to protect her from the cold. The family returned to Poland in 1946, and years later Barbara recalled: “You could take only what you were able to carry in your hands. My mother took the sheepskin vest and kept me wrapped in it all the time so that I wouldn’t be cold, so that I could stay warm.”

These and many other moving stories of women from Białystok and the surrounding region will be presented during the guided tour.

The event will also offer an opportunity to learn about the story of the interwar stage star Hanka Ordonówna, who rescued orphaned children from Soviet oppression, as well as the fates of women of other nationalities persecuted by the Soviet Union: the Austrian official Margarethe Ottillinger, the Japanese actress Yoshiko Okada, and the First Lady of the interwar Republic of Estonia, Maria Laidoner.

Date: March 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
Tickets: regular 35 PLN, reduced 30 PLN
(Number of places is limited.)