Deported from Chylin in Wołyń to Arkhangelsk Oblast. Worked with her family in tree logging. After the amnesty they travelled by self-built rafts to Kotlas. Ended up in Guzar and the Valley of Death where Maria lost part of her family. Later evacuated through the Middle East, Maria was eventually sent to India. Maria reunited with her sister, who served in Anders’ Army, in 1948 when she settled in the UK.
Maria Wylot
At the Polish refugee camp in India
With school friends before the deportation from Poland
Maria with her husband Marian and son Ziutek, early 1950s
A page from Maria’s diary describing her passage to India