{"id":6273,"date":"2021-04-13T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sybir.bialystok.pl\/81-rocznica-drugiej-masowej-deportacji\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:25:37","slug":"81st-anniversary-of-the-second-mass-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sybir.bialystok.pl\/en\/81st-anniversary-of-the-second-mass-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"81st anniversary of the second mass deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the NKVD report: \u201cIn April-June 1940, 60,182 people were settled in Kazakhstan. The above-mentioned number was distributed: in collective farms \u2014 36 639, sovkhozes \u2014 15 923, in enterprises and construction sites \u2014 7 630. Among the displaced are about 50% of children and old people, 20% of adult men, the rest are women \u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The people mentioned in the report were taken by the Soviets to Sybir on April 13, 1940. Wives and children of those whom they had just murdered in Katyn, Smolensk, Kharkiv and other places were packed into the wagons. These incomplete families, mostly made up of only women and children, experienced a double drama of deportation, both during a long journey and during their stay in collective farms and state farms in Kazakhstan. They lacked male help with physical work, as well as the care and mental support of spouses and fathers, whose return they were constantly waiting for. Most of all, however, they lacked their closeness, tenderness and love\u2026 They learned about the Katyn Massacre years later, often only after their return to Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year we gather at the Monument of the Katyn Massacre to pay tribute to the victims of the second mass deportation of Polish citizens deep into the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos: Sybir Memorial Museum <\/p>\n\n\n\n