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The film "Upper Silesian Tragedy 1945" by Aleksandra Fudala and Adam Turula was made for the Polish History Museum in connection with the 70th anniversary of the deportation of thousands of civilians from Upper Silesia in 2015. This event went down in history as the "Upper Silesian Tragedy 1945" and this term describes the still little-known episode of internment and deportation to forced labor deep in the USSR of at least 30 thousand residents of Upper Silesia - regardless of their nationality. Research is still ongoing and the number of repressed people may reach as many as 50-90 thousand. How many exactly - is still unknown... It is known that the Soviet industry weakened by the war needed workers and any pretext and sometimes a neighbor's tip-off was enough for the NKVD to "carry out the plan" of arrests and deportations. This drama began at the turn of February and March 1945 and lasted for about 3 months. Of those deported, probably more than half remained in the "inhuman land", dying during transport or hard labor - primarily in mines, steelworks, quarries and forests. The first returns began at the end of 1945, but the last survivors returned only in the early 1950s. This topic, covered by censorship during the Polish People's Republic, slowly began to penetrate the public consciousness only after Poland regained independence in 1989.