Sentences with phrase «siberian labor camp»

Born in Poland in 1928, he was sent to a Siberian labor camp after the Russians (along with the Germans) invaded to start World War II.

Julian Stanczak (born 1928) was training to be a musician in Poland when he lost the use of his right arm in a Siberian labor camp during World War II.

Inspired by the work of Joseph Brodsky, a Russian poet who spent seven years in a Siberian labor camp before his 1972 exile and emigration to the United States, Darren Almond has made an exhibition of stark contrasts.

It opens in 1940 in Russia - occupied Poland with the sentencing of Janusz (Jim Sturgess), a Polish soldier who has been denounced on trumped - up espionage charges by his wife and sentenced to a Siberian labor camp.

Synopsis: Denounced by his wife as a possible spy in 1939, Janusz (Jim Sturgess) finds himself in a remote Siberian labor camp.

A native of Kopyczynce, Poland, Mr. Ostapiuk was taken with his family to a Siberian labor camp as a child, where he was held until the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces during World War II.

Zdzislaw «Joe» Ostapiuk survived a Siberian labor camp as a child and came to the U.S. as a teen before working his way up the ladder at Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. to become an assistant vice president.

In 1940, during Russia's occupation of the eastern half of the country, Mr. Stanczak and his family were caught up in the first wave of mass deportations of Poles to Siberian labor camps.