The Polish Library POSK in London and the Institute of National Remembrance cordially invite you to the launch of the album entitled
\n\u201cFrom an inhuman land to the land of the maharajas. Polish refugees from the USSR in India, 1942\u20131948\u201d.
\nThe event will be attended by: Marzena Kruk \u2013 Director of the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, and Anna P\u0142o\u0144ska \u2013 co-author of the album.<\/p>\n
We invite you to the Reading Room of the Polish Library POSK<\/strong> Free admission!<\/p>\n Thousands of Poles from the Eastern Borderlands lost their former lives, their hard-earned possessions, and sometimes even their families, in a single night in 1940 or 1941. They were forced to embark on an unwanted and painful journey eastwards \u2013 deep into the Soviet Union. Following the signing of the Sikorski\u2013Mayski Agreement, some of the Poles deported to the USSR were sent to India. Their wartime experiences are presented in this album. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Polish Library POSK in London and the Institute of National Remembrance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11861,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[206,174],"class_list":["post-11863","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-lecture","tribe_events_cat-meeting","cat_lecture","cat_meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11863\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n9 May 2026<\/strong>
\nTime: 4.00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe publication is based primarily on documents and photographs that were transferred to the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw as part of the \u2018Archives Full of Memories\u2019 project.
\nThe authors sought to show not only the tragedy experienced by the book\u2019s protagonists \u2013 those exiled to Siberia and Kazakhstan \u2013 but above all the immense kindness and support they received on the Indian subcontinent. In many cases, the decision was made to give a voice to the participants in the events described \u2013 numerous quotations enrich the narrative and serve as an important complement to it. The appendix presents selected profiles of well-known Poles who resided in India between 1942 and 1948.<\/p>\n