Thank you so very much for all the links, where I can look for pertinent information about poles who were deported to Russia. I appreciate your help. Warm...
I am not sure that Stalin decided to help the allies by sending them some soldiers. I think that Churchill convinced Stalin that he needed help to fight the...
Hello Brian I'm sure you're more likely to get a response to your questions if you sign you posting from Brian Belczaki, Auckland NZ. Also give as much...
Helen Thank you for clarifying this posting and welcome Brian. As there was no name, sign off, or country, was not sure if from member in group or spam or...
At one stage, unless a posting was signed off by a member, we did not open, just in case. So please all members sign off and give country and check where...
Hi Brian Found your places, towns. Kolonia Krzyzowe, district Podberezie county Horocho. They are in Wolyn and called Krzy¿owce, Podberezie, Horochów, ...
http://htmlimg4.scribdassets.com/2nuvgughfkxhvdo/images/1-05c11b38a4.jpg More of newspaper in link below http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en ...
Hi group, this is in Russian, but can be clumsily translated to English, relating to the recovery of names - I do not read Russian so a big guess of its...
Novo Ilevka. The history of repression in a small village on the background of the Great Terror (¹ 6 [244], 05/04/2012) Author: Arkady Shefner My father,...
The previous posting link did not work,Russian will not copy to a direct link, my apologies for the length, but we have discussed this many times, the...
Thanks for this, Lenarda. I hope I live long enough to find the Tver security files. This will probably get me as close as I can get to the facts. IBut, Â am...
Thank you so much for that pointer! I had not seen that list before. On it I managed to find all five of the family I am writing about. Question: one sister is...
Were the Caspian crossings in the first days of April 1942 (1st and 2nd) in stormy conditions with heavy sea swells? I require this information for context in...
I suspect they were all (or mostly) bad. Few if any of the passengers had ever made a sea voyage before, the conditions were indescribably crowded, and...
Thanks for that Dan. My great uncle and his battalion came across on the tanker Profintern on 2 April, been trying to find image of this ship without luck....
Hi Chris, I was 9 yrs and 3 months old when as a "junak" crossed the Caspian.. From my that young memory I can state that this must have been a first...
Hi Louise, Thank you for all the links, I will have to spend some time trying to understand all the ones that have pertinent information. I responded the other...
Hi Everyone, I wonder whether "Profintern" and "Krasnyi Profintern" are one and the same ship. I recorded the ships name, in my ancient notes, as "Krasnyi...
Andrew We would very much welcome your Recollections to share in our Virtual Museum. Can you e-mail them to me? Best regards Stefan Wisniowski Sydney...
Dear group Can anyone take a stab at a possible explanation of the below 1948 mystery? Could it be a belated medal related to Tobruk? Or to the Heliopolis...
Thank you for the reply's and recollections. The crossing in the first days of April that I was curious about was from a post by John Halucha in mid Dec 2011....
Excellent question, Chris. Perhaps these notes regarding weather during the March-April evacuation may help: - "It was March 1942; Some 2 years after our...
John, You have just answered a question, I had for over 15 years, which I thought was a mad woman’s ranting, about the ship sinking with Polish souls on...
What sort of decoration? Was it a written citation and/or award such as a medal or ribbon. If you have images of either it would help narrow things down a bit....
