Thanks for this post Stefan. Father Krolikowski is an excellent writer, and I will be ordering his book soon. Although I'm sure we have all read many...
Dear Members, Thank you all for sharing your stories and time. I am grateful to this group and the foundation for your dedication to uncovering the history of...
Dear Members, Thank you all for sharing your stories and time. I am grateful to this group and the foundation for your dedication to uncovering the history of...
Dear members, I was in touch with this group just over a year ago seeking information to do research on my father’s family who was deported from the Wilno...
Hi group, a page full of photos of Krasnovodsk, Tehran, Persia, ships, camps, army and Polish Exiles etc. etc. etc. Little trick I learned, if you want to...
Rys, Inspired by your success, I've searched out information about Uktym, in the Yarensk region of Arkhangelsk, where my family were deported. I've found...
Dear Members in Canada. I'm trying to trace this man for a dear friend who is also a Kresy member. I've been helping him trace his Polish ancestors. Eddy...
Most amazing book. There is introduction and some of it can be read online. This is a must read. I cannot copy section to give you idea, but it writes of...
Hello group I heard a curious story from my mother this weekend while trying to help her unravel her family journey through Siberia and across to Omsk Olast,...
Dear UK members, Plymouth is holding a special event to commemorate the Polish Navy and Armed Forces on Monday 25 June with an exhibition running throughout...
Dear group, I am reading 'The Inhuman Land' by Józef Czapski and there is a very emotive description of General Anders (with whom Czapski worked closely with...
Were there also civilians who went to India along with children mentioned in earlier posts? If so are there any documents with names of adults who went to...
NDET 14-5-12 RKH 11 Sibyl Rodowicz-Rutowicz with portrait of husband war hero Leon Rodowicz-Rutowicz. Published on Wednesday 16 May 2012 10:39 A CHESTERFIELD...
Does a hero stop being a hero when he dies? Sincere apologies if I offend those who are fortunate enough to be still with us today and are able to tell the...
Hi Stefan. Pare lat wstecz napisalem krotkie moje wspomnienia dal kwartalnika polskich rodzin w Heliopolis [Egipt] Jezeli beda nadawac sie do urzytku to moge...
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone knows if there were any camps either in or near to Gorki? Â I am sure I remember my Dad telling me that that is where is was...
Dear Group, Kresy-Siberia has been awarded a grant to do a Heroes of Anders Army project during this year, that marks the 70th anniversary of the formation of...
GO TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE FOR AMAZING PHOTOS\ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18116112 Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere By Lucy Ash In the Russian...
Please welcome Olivia to the group. We met Olivia and her mother Zaneta at our last POSK get-together and then her uncle Chris Manka also became a member a...
Dear Group I am quite new to this, although Ive been a member for some time Ive not had the know how to get all the information I could find. My father died...
For the very first time I've seen my father-in-law's name on an official list. Antoni has helped me so much in my fruitless searches to date. Adolf, the focus...
Hi, group. At request of Roger trying to look Poles in Uzbekistan, and came across this article. I decided to post it for everyone, especially for those,...
Hello, Group, I received the following letter from Komi today via email. Because I cannot read Russian, I tried first converting the file to readable text...
Dear Group I am looking for Zbigniew Pecak, born in osada Bortnica and now living in Canada? He is the author of the map of Osada Bortnica-Krasnica published...
Hi group Question to group, do we have any members who escaped through CHINA? I know of two families, both Polish, one family had older daughter and a son who...
