To ALL: Sometime ago there was a discussion as to the wealth of Russia and their ability to pay a fair amount to the people that were deported to Siberia. ...
Okay Polacy, here it is revised...thanks so much for the corrections...I appreciate them. As in terms of using Fatherland and homeland.....I think fatherland...
Hi everyone, Just saw that the history channel will be running a documentary tonight at 9pm/8 central, titled Betrayed - Battle for Warsaw. It will also be on...
I've just translated this little Polish poem learned by every Pole during childhood....in Poland. I'm stuck on two sentences...can someone help me ??? I'm...
Poland will have to pay thousands of euros in compensation after the European Court of Human Rights accused it of breaking International laws. The case...
Raczkowski's photographic journal of a cycling tour made through Volynia in 2002. The text (which is minimal)is in Polish, but the site is mainly composed of...
Hi group, Would anyone know whether there is an obtainable list of the names of Polish soldiers who died defending Lwow in 1919-20? I recently learned that my...
Dear group members Can anyone tell us whether the Polish soldiers fighting in France in 1940 wore their old Polish uniforms, or something else? -- Stefan...
Help! Have we anyone, in our Group, or who knows anyone - who lived in the Lwow area [Nahaczow or Jaworow], just west of Lwow,to be exact, in the 1939-1940...
One thing that can be done to raise awareness is to make readily available well written survivor books in the local language (ie English for many of us) about...
I just received a booklet from the USA about the life of my father's cousin Cecylia. There is not much information about the pre-1940 years in it. She said her...
Hi Denise Thanks for your e-mail, which I have passed on to the Kresy-Siberia Group. It is very commendable what you are doing to keep Polish history alive for...
All Due to excessive spam and other less that savoury material I've had to move my message board to another provider. The new board will be available tomorrow...
Visibility and recognition Dear Group, It is my belief that to spread the word about the Polish Siberian experience the dissemination of knowledge should be...
Family names ending at -stra are typical for the Northern Dutch province of Friesland. Is it your name or do you have a husband with this name ? Jan ... Van:...
Hi, Anyone have ideas or need help on a current project in the NY Metro area? I'm in Central NJ - Middlesex County.. Walt On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:47:14 +1000...
Hi All, A little while back,Halina put word out of a new book "All Men Are Brothers". The Polish Role of Honor during Operation Market Garden,specifically the ...
My cousin from England just phoned me. I asked her about our relatives in London. She said their maiden name was Gnyp. Now I searched the evacuation list of...
Hello List, I have just joined. I recently was able to find and correspond with my mother's cousin in Warsaw. He knew nothing of our branch of the family when...
Hi Andy, thanks I looked at the site - there are several references to Horochow and several different ways of spelling it ! That's what so darn confusing....
Hello Val, Good news - indeed :-) A photo would be greatly appreciated !!! thanks ever so much............ gratefully, janie usa Message: 1 Date: Thu, 29 Sep...
Hi Everyone, I just received my dad's immigration papers, :-) I have a few questions, can someone please tell me where these places are located: Czesnowka,...
To All: The following site and sites have all agreements during WW2. I Think? http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm The below site lists the specific...
Hi Andy, thanks for your input I will check with jewishgen.org in a few days. The most disheartening part of this research is the discrepancies on the various...
Some of you may be aware that the BBC has set up a website called WW2 Peoples War, and invited ordinary people's contributions to it. I have made mine some...
Hi group, A recent message from Janie makes me think of something to do with researching Polish locations for tracing family. While I was in Canada recently,...
To Everyone, From a TIMES MAGAZINE article from 1943, I found out that in the second transport of Polish Refugees that came on the USS Hermitage from India to...
I wonder if there is a member in this group who has been in the above camp. We were taken in the February 10th transport. All I know is that it took...
