07/06/2026
Ninety years ago, one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of Poles living in the Soviet Union began.
➡ In 1936, the USSR authorities decided to mass deport Polish families from Soviet Ukraine to Kazakhstan. People were brutally uprooted from their homes and loaded onto freight cars. They were sent to the endless steppes, where they faced hunger, hard labor, disease, and a struggle for survival.
➡ The first large-scale deportation affected approximately 70,000 people, the vast majority of whom were Poles. Many of them never returned to their homeland.
➡ On the 90th anniversary of these events, the Institute of National Remembrance presents a unique spot prepared by the IPN's International Cooperation Office using AI technology.
➡ This modern visual format tells the story of people who were deprived of everything: their homes, their security, their futures. However, they failed to deprive them of their memories, their language, and their Polish identity.
Wydawnictwo IPN
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej