article_snippet.sent: Tomasz Lazar spent hours photographing and interviewing adults who were ripped from their homes as children in the 1940s and forced to live thousands of miles away in Siberia.
article_snippet.sent: Soviet authorities invaded Poland during World War II and deported hundreds of thousands of Poles.
article_snippet.sent: Some were sent to prison camps in the frozen wilderness of central Russia.
article_snippet.sent: In effect, Moscow stole much of an entire generation of young Poles, a handful of whom Tomasz Lazar has located seven decades later.
article_snippet.sent: Some lost mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters -- killed by the Soviets.
article_snippet.sent: Tomasz Lazar remembers hearing 84-year-old Boguslaw Dokurno recall 84-year-old Boguslaw Dokurno grandfather's dying wish.
article_snippet.sent: Dokurno's grandfather asked Dokurno's grandfather grandson to return home to Poland after his grandson death to retrieve Polish soil and bring Polish soil back to his grandson Siberian gravesite.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Soviets invaded Poland in World War II and deported hundreds of thousands of people .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tomasz Lazar photographed some of these Poles and listened to some of these Poles stories .