100 Images of Migration gallery

Polish airmen

Polish members of the Air Bridge Association gathering at Newark Cemetery in 2009 for the annual remembrance of the 250 airmen who died trying to supply resistance fighter during the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Many Polish squadrons were posted near Newark during the Second World War and 346 Polish airmen who died during the conflict… Read more

Elena, Olga, Kyril and Lev, 1924

The small boy in the photograph is Kyril Zinovieff. He was born in 1911 in St Petersburg of wealthy parents with allegiance to the ruling Tzars. Kyril’s mother was Maid of Honour and then Lady-in-Waiting to the Empress Alexandra, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and wife to Tzar Nicholas II. As a young girl she had to… Read more