Observed arrival · 2026-09-30
Kazimierz Bachmiński’s memoir of deportation and exile
An online memoir follows Bachmiński’s family from wartime Wołkowysk through deportation to the Arkhangelsk region, Kazakhstan, Iran and Africa.
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- Readers of Polish wartime memoirs and family histories
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- Chapter estimates range from about four to 65 minutes; the site gives a total reading time of roughly 2 hours 22 minutes.
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The page divides the account into a prewar childhood, deportation and settlement in the Arkhangelsk region, the 1941 amnesty, travel to Kazakhstan, and later chapters on Iran and Africa. Chapter estimates range from about four to 65 minutes, and the site gives a total reading time of roughly 2 hours 22 minutes. The author says he first wrote the memoir in 2015; the displayed second edition was expanded and revised between 2019 and 2021, with his grandson assisting with layout, photographs and maps.
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