This video shows artwork done by an unknown survivor of the Soviet deportation of Polish citizens to Siberia during the Second World War.

All we know of the artwork is that it was once donated to a former Lord Provost of Glasgow City, who in turn, donated it to the Sikorski Polish Club.

The images tell a harrowing story, from the initial deportations, to life during and after the Gulag experience.

The following information accompanies the artwork:

1. Deportation of a family from their home by the Bolsheviks
2. Deportees from a Polish town are herded into cattle wagons by the NKVD (the Soviet Union's secret police organisation)
3. Soviet officers doing a roll call of inmates at a Bolshevik holding prison
4. Inmates are given delousing treatment and a bath
5. Conditions inside the barracks of a northern Soviet labour camp
6. Levelling of land for Soviet military operations by "Lagiernikow" (Gulag prisoners) in northern Russia
7. Polish deportees build a timber road over marsh land
8. Loading timber onto barges in north Russia
9. Recalcitrant workers are interrogated by the Commander of a labour camp (Gulag)
10. Inmates of the labour camp queue for provisions
11. Happy ex-prisoners leave the gulag as a result of the amnesty granted by Stalin following the Sikorski-Maisky agreement. Later evacuated to form a 75,000 strong army in the Middle East
12. A railway station buffet is besieged by released prisoners at one of the stations
13. Evening scene at a Soviet state farm established on confiscated land
14. Ex-prisoners enjoying "freedom" in a collective state farm in Uzbekistan
15. The "freed" need to find extra food to supplement their meagre rations

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