Lawrence, Edward (Oral history)

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Polish civilian deported from Poland to Soviet Union, 2/1940-3/1940; interned in Soviet Union, 1940-1941; private served with Polish Armed Forces in the East in Soviet Union and Iran, 1942

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REEL 1 Background in Bukachczwce, Poland, 1923-1939: family; education; reaction to outbreak of Second World War, 1/9/1939. Aspects of period as civilian living in Poland, 9/1939-2/1940: impressions of Soviet Army, 9/1939; effect of Soviet occupation on education; food supplies; relations between Poles and Ukrainians in Stanislawów area; Soviet Army troops buying up of consumer goods. Recollections of deportation from Poland to Soviet Union, 2/1940-3/1940: arrival of Soviet Army troops at home, 10/2/1940; start of rail journey to Soviet Union; message he passed to his aunt at Lwów; reasons for not attempting to escape; rail journey across Soviet Union to Siberia; reception on arrival at forest camp, 2/3/1940. REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of period as forced labourer in Siberia, Soviet Union, 1940-1941: start of work with lumberjack team, spring 1940; problems with insects; reaction to war news, 6/1940; issue of winter clothing, 10/1940; disruption of his Polish Christmas Eve celebrations by Soviet commandant, 24/12/1940; attempt to force Poles to take Soviet nationality, early 1941; going blind through lack of vitamins and subsequent cure; hay making in the taiga, summer 1941; effect on Polish morale of German invasion of Soviet Union, 6/1941. REEL 3 Continues: refusal of Soviet commandant to recognise amnesty for Poles, 8/1941; his attempt to send telegram to volunteer for Polish Armed Forces in the East; how he became a forestry student, 9/1941; abortive escape attempt, 10/1941. Recollections of journey across Soviet Union to join Polish Armed Forces in the East, 1941-1942: journey to Chelyabinsk, 11/1941; problems of forcing his way aboard crowded trains at Chelybinsk, 11/1941; arrival at Aktyubinsk near Aral Sea, winter 1941-1942; how he got separated from friends at Tashkent; arrival and delousing in Jalal-Abad, 12/1942; move to Mikhaylovka, 1/1942; threat of starvation at Mikhaylovka; arrest and subsequent release for attempting to sell tobacco on black market in Jalal-Abad, 1/1942. REEL 4 Continues: survival of Polish group in Jalal-Abad, early 1942; initial contact with Polish Armed Forces in the East and discovery that they had stopped recruiting through lack of food, 2/1942; contracting typhus in Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, 1942. Aspects of period with 5th Infantry Div, Polish Second Army, Polish Armed Forces in the East in Soviet Union and Iran, 1942: joining Polish Armed Forces in Soviet Central Asia, 4/1942; plan by Polish officers to escape to Afghanistan if necessary, summer 1942; issue of British rations on train journey to Caspian Sea; oil pollution in Caspian Sea, 8/1942; desperation of Polish families to get to Iran; overcrowding of ship taking Poles across Caspian Sea; processing of Poles in Pahlevi, Iran; reaction to arrival in Iran; question of why Poles were deported to Soviet Union; impressions of Communist system in Soviet Union

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Lawrence, Edward (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1996-11-11
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 17103

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