Regions - Eastern Borderland (Kresy)
Poland of the past - eastern boarderlands - regions of today Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania
A Forgotten Odyssey  [offsite link]
This site is connected to ´A Forgotten Odyssey´, a recent documentary film by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. It deals with the forgotten tragedy of 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. Eastern BorderLands of the II Polish Republic  [offsite link]
Very comprehensive website with maps, photographs, history, tradition and mythology of the Eastern regions. Kresy - Albums with photographs and pictures [offsite link]
Maps of Poland before WW II, albums with photos of people who lived there or were sent to Siberia, information about Polish evacuees to Iraq - worth to see! Kresy-Siberia · Kresy-Siberia Discussion Group [offsite link]
The "Kresy-Siberia Group" brings into contact people from countries around the world with a special interest in the tragedy of over one million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) arrested or deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) Lemkos - Ruthenians - People of Karpathians [offsite link]
Very extensive website with resources available in many languages about Lemkos - Rusynes - Ruthenians - Ukrainians - people of Carpathian mountains. Photographs and Maps from Polish Kresy [offsite link]
Interesting website with photographs and maps of Polish Eastern borderland. InPolish Polish Second Corps [offsite link]
A history of the Polish Second Corps formed by deported Poles in Soviet Union. Stalin´s Ethnic Cleansing [offsite link]
Tales of the deported Poles from Eastern Poland. Zaporoze (kozzaks) and Poland [offsite link]
Check this interesting website to learn about the autonomy of Kozzaks and their relations to Poland. Links marked with the [offsite link] designation point to websites not associated with BellaOnline.com. BellaOnline.com is not responsible for the material found there.
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