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\u2014 By choosing the items related to the family, we try to remind that the Soviet deportations are related not only to the period of 1939-1945 \u2014 said Marcin Zwolski, PhD, from the Scientific Department of the Sybir Memorial Museum. \u2014 Although the story told by the Sybir Memorial Museum is mainly associated with the war period, we realize, that the soviet repressions begun in the 30s and did not stop after the war. In 1945 from the territory of the formally independent country almost 40.000 people associated with the polish underground were deported \u2014 explained Zwolski, PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mrs. Janina, together with her mother and siblings was deported in 1948, three years after her father was thought to be an enemy of the people and sent to a labor camp for 10 years. They returned to Poland in 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Before the war my father build a possession 9 kilometers from Kedainiai. I was born there \u2014 in October 1940 \u2014 and my younger siblings. The youngest brother was born in a bunker, the war was on. It was known, that the borders were moved. Parents decided to sell the house and move to Poland. They had to prove we were Poles, father was given a repatriation card. But someone said he told badly about the soviet authorities. On August 4, 1945 he was arrested and then the military tribunal in Vilnius sentenced him to 10 years of a forced labor camp. First, he was near Vorkuta, then in Kolyma, near Magadan. Luckily he kept his repatriation card \u2014 said Mrs. Janina Rutkowska. Her family\u2019s house was confiscated, and the mother, together with the children moved to her relatives. She took two of the youngest children to the relatives to the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014 Me and my older brother started our education in a Latvian school. \u2014<\/a> said Mrs. Janina \u2014 but I did not finish the first grade\u2026 People gathered at the May masses and spoke that deportations were being prepared. That if someone is in a labor camp, then also his family will be punished. And truly \u2014 on May 22, 1948, six days after my First Communion, the Soviets knocked on the door. Mother talked to them, and me and my brother were crying in a bed, being scared of these people \u2014 the Sybirak shared her memories.  \u2014 We were taken to a command, there they found out mother had two more children, so some people were send for them to the city of our relatives. They were brought and then we were packed on a truck. We were going through our city and then our mother said: \u201cLook children, you see it for the last time, probably we will never come back here\u201d. On the right we were saying goodbye to our house\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 In Kedainiai we were locked up in carriages. Crying, despair, songs. Lithuania people sing beautifully\u2026 \u2014 Mrs. Rutkowska kept talking her story. \u2014 There were many mothers with their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 We got off near the Yenisei, in the middle of Siberia. Then we went upriver by a boat and we were taken deep into the taiga. The very first day my mother took me and my older brother to work so we could work for our bread allocation. I was 7, my brother was 9 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Siberian nature is very generous \u2014 the Sybirak said to the gathered teenagers. \u2014 many roots, buds, flowers to eat. But insects were a tragedy. We were bitten by fleas, and in the summer \u2014 by midges. We tried to make face masks, but because of bites we were getting swollen from bites so our eyes were invisible \u2014 said Mrs. Rutkowska. \u2014 Survival dependent on the fact whether a mother managed to get some food \u2014 our mother for four children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The soviet authorities reminded about us, children \u2014 that we should be taught Russian language. We went to school. We had no notebooks, no pencils. My brother, very clever, sharpened sticks so we were able to use them to write. We used the beetroot juice to make notes. Russians made their old notebooks available for us \u2014 we wrote between the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 When I turned 12, I had to, together with my brother, work as an adult, in the summer hay-making and in the winter woodcutting. We were supposed to meet the daily standard, it was work beyond our strength. I remember that water was scarce \u2014 while hay-making I drunk water from a puddle\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stalin died in March 1953. \u2014 Everything changed \u2014 the Sybirak said. \u2014 The number of those, who were keeping an eye on us was lower. We got a message from my father that he was set free from a labor camp and that he was given the sentence of \u201cstaying forever\u201d in Kazakhstan, but he managed to come to us soon. Father, after Stalin\u2019s death was a free man, but mother and me and my brother \u2014 we were still exiled people. Father became a chief accountant and our living was better. Once he met his friend from the labor camp and that friend reminded him about the repatriation card. And it did succeed: December 8, 1955 we were put into a carriage and taken to Krasnoyarsk. There were carriages with subtitles \u201cPafawag Wroclaw\u201d\u2026 \u2014 she mentioned with great emotion. \u2014 Even strangers were hugging each other, because they all returned to Poland from hell. When we were crossing the polish border, there was a late thaw. No one paid attention, people rushed to kiss the polish ground. Me and my siblings could not say a lot in polish. We knew \u201cGood Morning\u201d, so we were screaming from the carriage left and right: \u201cGood Morning!\u201d, \u201cGood Morning!\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Janina Rutkowska, a teacher for many years, ended her colorful and moving story, dreamed up by beautiful polish language with the words of saint John Paul the Second: \u2014 To all the people of good will, I repeat: forgive, and you shall feel relief. My parents forgave. Blame is on the war. War is something terrifying\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mementoes donated by Mrs. Janina Rutkowska n\u00e9e Jasudowicz can be seen until December 2 in the hall of the Sybir Memorial Museum \u2014 free admittance. Presentation of the December Exhibit of the Month will be held on December 6, 2022. Welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014 When we were crossing the polish border, there was a late thaw. No one paid attention, people rushed to kiss the polish ground. Me and my siblings couldn\u2019t say a lot in polish. We knew \u201cGood Morning\u201d, so we were screaming from the carriage left and right: \u201cGood Morning!\u201d, \u201cGood Morning!\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s the way Mrs. Janina Rutkowska n\u00e9e Jasudowicz mentioned her return from Siberia to Poland in 1955. 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