This collection is located on-site.
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)
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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.
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1961.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1961.
Memoirs Processed 04/--/82.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Bykowska.
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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.
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| Memoirs | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Subject | ||
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |