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Killing time: Shizhaga, Kazakhstan

The latest guest post on 501 Places is a moving story by Jerry Kubica recalling his travels in a remote part of Kazakhstan as part of his work for the charity Our Roots Trust. He set up the charity to help those families who were uprooted from their Polish homeland by the two world wars [...]

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Aralsk, Kazakhstan; where nature took revenge for man’s folly

The latest guest post on 501 Places is by Jerry Kubica. Jerry was born in Poland but during his early childhood had to survive the horrors of the war and deportation before arriving and settling in England. He set up the Our Roots Trust project to explore the roots of those imprisoned and killed in [...]

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