Soviet Forced Labour (1940-41)

Soviet Tyranny

Room 2d. Soviet Forced Labour (1940-41)

Henryk

Son of Katyn victom, deported to Kazakhstan 13th April 1940 aged 17 years

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Facts

1-2 million Poles were deported to the USSR for forced labour. The work assignments of the deportees varied from felling timber in the frozen Siberian forests to working underground in deep gold mines, building canals…

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