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In June, two major deportation operations took place, in 1940 and 1941, targeting citizens of the Second Polish Republic. During the latter, the Bia\u0142ystok region suffered particularly heavily. Every fourth Polish citizen deported during this operation came from our region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main commemorative ceremony was held at the Monument-Grave of the Unknown Sybirak. The memory of the deportees was also honoured at the Memorial to the Polish Golgotha of the East and at the Monument of the Sybirak<\/em> Mother, located in front of the Sybir Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among those attending were Micha\u0142 G\u0105sowski, Deputy Voivode of Podlaskie Province; Wies\u0142awa Burnos, Deputy Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship; Rafa\u0142 Rudnicki, Deputy Mayor of Bia\u0142ystok; representatives of the uniformed services; delegations from public offices and institutions; and, above all, Sybiraks themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jolanta Hryniewicka, Chair of the Bia\u0142ystok Branch of the Association of Sybiraks, spoke about the importance of preserving the memory of the deportations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must remember these deportations; they continued even into the 1950s. Many people died during the journey. They were thrown from the railway wagons without a cross, without a grave, and that was the hardest thing for those who continued travelling into the unknown,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark the 86th anniversary of the mass deportations, the Sybir Memorial Museum prepared a special commemorative programme. It included the educational workshop \u201cThey Came at Dawn\u201d and a guided tour of the permanent exhibition \u201cThat Summer, We Were Taken from Our Homes\u201d, dedicated to the deportations of June 1940 and 1941. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way, we strive not only to remember the events of the past but, above all, to pass this memory on to future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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