Call for Papers Call for Papers: Refugees and the End of Empire One of the most negative legacies of the twentieth century was the development of the refugee,...
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Barbara Jachowicz Dav...
bdavoust2
Sep 5, 2006 11:30 am
Thanks Simon for putting in your father's paper about the typus epidemic. The suspected geographical origins of the epidemic confirms what my mother told me....
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simonmrzsp
Sep 5, 2006 2:05 pm
Thank you for sharing your mother's story Barbara, how extraordinary that she managed to walk 14 km with typhus! In the clinical section, my father notes...
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Walter Orlowski
walter_orlowski
Sep 5, 2006 3:22 pm
Hello Simon: Your father's memoirs have also jogged my memory. Somewhat belatedly let me describe my mother's experience. Your father was indeed very ...
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Elizabeth Olsson
elzuniao
Sep 5, 2006 9:26 pm
I hope she got treatment for her typhus once she got to the army, Barbara! It’s terrible that she couldn’t get help right away even though the doctor ...
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Elizabeth Olsson
elzuniao
Sep 5, 2006 9:32 pm
My mother describes the same experience in Pahlevi. She managed to save a small case with documents and photos and luckily for us, her diary. Everything else...
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Zosia Krukowska
zofiakrukowksa
Sep 5, 2006 10:59 pm
I have always thought that the old family photos my mother had were so precious considering what they had to survive too. Recently I discovered a small black...
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Simon Pugh
simonmrzsp
Sep 6, 2006 3:53 pm
Walter Thank you for sharing your story, it is hard for us who weren't there to imagine what it must have been like. I like the story about how the children...
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J Eddis
eddis_top@...
Sep 6, 2006 8:16 pm
In his memoir WITHOUT VODKA: Adventures in Wartime Russia, my husband, Aleksander Topolski, tells of his experience with lice and with typhus (excerpts below)....
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J Eddis
eddis_top@...
Sep 6, 2006 8:31 pm
My apologies for the repetitious, incomplete e-mail from me just posted on this topic. It jumped away from me before I finished and edited it. Like many others...
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Barbara Jachowicz Dav...
bdavoust2
Sep 6, 2006 10:20 pm
Actually, she was never treated as far as I know, certainly never hospitalized. She says she remained deaf for about a week. After they were accepted in the...
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gerald: IT->QA->...
virtualgerald
Sep 7, 2006 2:49 am
I remember my dad telling me about how people in the Soviet's Siberian barracks would be "twitching" at night whilst sleeping from all the bed bugs & lice...
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ted sebestianski
tsebestianski@...
Sep 8, 2006 1:29 am
Its a funny story your dad been telling you with suspended bed? There were shortage of any supply if any of any kind of rope or cable another thing those bed...
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aremmert@...
Sep 8, 2006 2:09 am
I hope I remember correctly the stories my dad told, but I think he talked about putting the bed legs in cans with Kerosene to kill the bugs before they could...
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Wit Bogma
witbogma
Sep 8, 2006 2:15 am
I can remember the smell of " pluskwy= bed bugs" by their smell when squashed and to this day I can not bring myself to drink scotch - to me the smell is the...
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gerald: IT->QA->...
virtualgerald
Sep 8, 2006 3:02 am
yep another 2 or 3 that i remember: [1] ------------------------------------------------- that when he was FIRST captured - near his home that is - that the...
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gerald: IT->QA->...
virtualgerald
Sep 8, 2006 3:10 am
... * yes, i remember, he did mention looking with "candle light" * dad was good with his hands, so volunteered as a carpenter for the Soviet commandant ......
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Simon Pugh
simonmrzsp
Sep 8, 2006 8:08 am
My father used to do the same thing - stand the bed legs in cans filled with kerosene - apparently the bugs would sometimes drop from the ceiling to thwart...
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romed46
Sep 8, 2006 6:04 pm
Just recently going through my souveneers I came across Polish Red Cross 1943 calendar with 17 photos of Polish Armed Forces personnel. I posted them on our...
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chris gmitrowicz
chrisgmitrowicz@...
Sep 8, 2006 8:35 pm
My Dad tells me they stood in the smoke of the fire and you could see the lice jump off!! Chris Gmitrowicz Birmingham From: <aremmert@...> Reply-To:...
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Stefan Wisniowski (Ph...
skwisniowski
Sep 9, 2006 8:52 am
Dear members I just wanted to share with you the news of a wonderful donation of L 200 from the Polonia Aid Foundation Trust in London for the maintenance of...
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Anne Kaczanowski
annekaczanowski
Sep 9, 2006 10:42 am
My dad also said he shook his clothes over the fire and listened to the lice as they crackled to their deaths. hania chris gmitrowicz...
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Elizabeth Olsson
elzuniao
Sep 9, 2006 11:05 am
Here is my uncle’s contribution to the subject. He seems to have had the same experience with his clothes as Dziadzius! I’m sure that my mother said they...
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Barbara Charuba
charubab
Sep 9, 2006 5:23 pm
My mum tells the story that when the family left Poland they were all clean and vermin free. Mom had only one pair of winter boots which she wore. When they...
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Mandel1028@...
Sep 9, 2006 6:01 pm
I am trying to find where my aunt's mother, Genowefa Puczko, and siblings, Ryszard and Regina Puczko, could possibly be buried in Archangelsk, where they ...
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romed46
Sep 9, 2006 6:45 pm
-In April 1941 I was conscripted into the Soviet Army and shipped to a tank battalion in Voroshylovsk (now Stavropol), Northern Caucasus. Every morning at...
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John Roy
polishjohn2000
Sep 10, 2006 8:53 am
Can someone with polish language help this lady? JR Witam Mój dziadek był zesłany na Sybir 1939r , dziadek zmarł a ja nie moge znaleść dokumentów...
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gerald: IT->QA->...
virtualgerald
Sep 10, 2006 3:33 pm
Lidia, try: http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/wyszukiwanie.asp [does this help ?] ... for "Turek" there are 48 results: ... LP Nazwisko Imiê Imiê Data ur. ...
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Stefan Wisniowski (Ph...
skwisniowski
Sep 10, 2006 4:31 pm
Joy My "rudimentary" Russian suggests that "Zelaznaja Droga, Lesopunkt" means "Lumber Camp, Rail line" - so it could be lots of places... Perhaps someone else...
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Stefan Wisniowski (Ph...
skwisniowski
Sep 10, 2006 5:14 pm
Simon Thank you for posting this paper. it gives good background on the disease that claimed the life of my aunt Kazia at age 16. Regards Stefan Wisniowski ...
