Some amazing and harrowing stories of survival in Siberian concentration camps, during World War Two, were today relived at a special ceremony in Coffs Harbour.
Child survivors of the camps, who later made lives in Australian and New Zealand, were presented with the Siberian Exiles Cross.
SIBERIAN EXILES CROSS AWARDED IN COFFS HARBOUR
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Please get your information correct: there were no “Concentration Camps” in Siberia – they were ‘Slave Labour’, ‘Special Labour’, or GULAGS.
How would I know? Both of my families were deported from their estates in eastern Poland to ‘Siberian Special Labour Camps’ on 10 February 1940.
We whom survive (and not many of us) now live in exile scattered about the world.
Son, grandson, and great grandson of Deportees.