Syberiada Renaty Jabłońskiej

Abstract

The subject of the article The Siberiad of Renata Jabłońska is the war wanderings of the Polish-Israeli writer Renata Jabłońska (born in 1935 in Łódź), who in 1940 was deported to Siberia with her parents. Jabłońska described her forced stay beyond the Urals, as well as the journey itself on the route Lodz – Warsaw – Lutzk– Asino – Kitza – Bergaievo – the Stavropol Krai – Lodz, in two autobiographical stories from the volume Niknące twarze [Vanishing Faces] (2004), as well as in her memoir book Fragmenty. Urywki wspomnień [Fragments. Fragments of memories] (2004). The stay of the Jabłoński family in exile in the USSR is divided into two periods: the first one covers the years spent in the special settlements (so-called posiołki) in the taiga on the Chulym River (Tomsk Oblast): first in Kitza, and then in Bergaievo. The second period – after the establishment of the Union of Polish Patriots in June 1943 – was life in a sovkhoz in the Pre-Caucasus, in the Stavropol Krai. In March 1946, along with the first wave of repatriates from the USSR, the Jabłońskis returned to Poland.