Khalichka Maria Edmundovna
From the interned Polish citizens. Prisoner of Tomsk prison in 1941.
A native of the town of Sambir, Lviv Voivodeship (Poland), a Polish citizen, secondary education. No pension, single, unemployed (former police officer). Arrested on April 7, 1940 in Lviv, on suspicion of committing a crime under Article 54-13 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. She was held in custody in prisons in Lviv, Kyiv, Odessa, and Nikolaev. In July 1941, she was transported to Siberia; from July 24, 1941, she was in prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO in Tomsk, and was listed as a person under investigation by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR.
The attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR and the Great Patriotic War that began on June 22, 1941 radically changed the situation of many Polish citizens exiled and under investigation and imprisoned on the territory of the USSR, turning them overnight from "enemies into allies" in the fight against the common enemy. On August 30, 1941, Maria Khaliczka, on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 12, 1941, as a former Polish citizen, was amnestied. Her subsequent fate has not been established.
Source: Archival file of prisoner M.E. Khalichka
