Anna Bykowska Memoirs, 1942, 1958
Collection context
- Creator:
- Bykowska, Anna
- Extent:
- 3 items (2 folders)
- Language:
- Polish .
- Scope and content:
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The collection includes both Polish and German versions of Bykowska's memoirs covering the period 1939-1942. A shorter memoir discusses how she became a nurse in Poland before the war. There is also a photograph of pani Piechkowska (1942)
- Biographical / historical:
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Anna N. Bykowska, nurse in the Polish army, in September 1939 was captured by the Soviet occupiers in eastern Poland, imprisoned in a number of Soviet prisons, and then sent to Siberia. In the winter of 1941-1942, when General Anders' Army was being formed from Polish prisoners of war in the USSR, she was able to leave Soviet territory and went with a military hospital to Persia. Her relatives didn't know anything of her fate from 1939 to 1958.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is located on-site.
- Terms of access:
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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- Preferred citation:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Anna Bykowska Memoirs; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- Location of this collection:
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