my mother refuses to eat onions and use oil, as that's mostly what she ate for a number of years as a young girl during the war Paul...
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Elizabeth Olsson
elzuniao
Apr 4, 2007 8:59 am
Hi Zbigniew Osada Krechowiecka is NE of Rowne, sorry for mixing in two different osady. Lawrow, is the closest village to Osada Maczkowce - where on their way...
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kms0902@...
szypowska
Apr 4, 2007 10:39 am
Yes. My mother remembers her father begging them to go find a dog to kill and eat - he was that hungry ! - this was just hours before he died ! Krystyna ... ...
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ANTONI KAZIMIERSKI
antoni530
Apr 4, 2007 12:03 pm
I think the 'Westernized group of Kresy-Siberia members', as we are in this Group, are 'wide off the mark' when dealing with the subject of food in camps. ...
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Pauline Jarney
paulinejarney
Apr 4, 2007 12:42 pm
I heard from a family friend that he ate dog meat in Russia, as well. My mother's staple was stale bread on which she broke her teeth.As children, we were...
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Eve5J@...
eve5j
Apr 4, 2007 1:05 pm
Hi Iza, Yes, I can relate to this. One of my aunts refused to eat the poor dog. This must have been difficult for my father, but he was starving. My father...
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Wit Bogma
witbogma
Apr 4, 2007 1:22 pm
HI, Borsuk in Poland was a common food animal and the rendered fat from it was used as medicine for people with lung disease. As to eating dogs I do not...
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Zbigniew Bob Styrna
b_styrna
Apr 4, 2007 3:57 pm
No worries, I found finally. Here is an old 1925 map of your Osada. It is just NE of co-ordinates 50*45' N and 26* 20" E .The little black squares are houses....
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Barbara Charuba
charubab
Apr 4, 2007 4:13 pm
From what I have been able to determine, conditions and the quality and quantity of food varied depending on where the people were sent. My mother and her...
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Valerie
valeriemeare
Apr 4, 2007 4:21 pm
Hi all, Can anyone tell me if Mytnik or Mitnik is a Polish name? Val (Oldham,UK)...
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Carol Dove
stashaok
Apr 4, 2007 4:26 pm
... It was not an isolated issue and yes my father remembers having to eat dog, bugs off your clothing and when your options are to eat dog or die I guess just...
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BBF1000@...
billfrusztajer
Apr 4, 2007 4:29 pm
Regarding the note about eating dogs, yes, in our remote village near Bodaybo, which itself was about 1000 miles (the way we were taken there along rivers)...
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Zbigniew Bob Styrna
b_styrna
Apr 4, 2007 5:07 pm
Bronek, I don't see how anyone had any 'luxuries ' like sweets. One was lucky to eat anything from the stories my mom and uncles have told me over the years. ...
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ted sebestianski
sbstnsk
Apr 4, 2007 5:34 pm
Hi... Remember in Kimenech people seen some Uzbeck woman selling rabits- anfortunetly there were cats!!!! somebody told me that you could not find a rats In...
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Zbigniew Bob Styrna
b_styrna
Apr 4, 2007 5:36 pm
Has anyone heard of a game called “Palant” being played in the pre WWII Poland and specifically Kresy? Regards Zbigniew Has anyone heard of a game called...
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Eve
eve5j
Apr 4, 2007 5:38 pm
Hi Zbyszek - Yes, eating dogs and cats is normal food in some parts of the world, but not for our people. However, I disagree with you about Kazakstan, which...
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Eve
eve5j
Apr 4, 2007 5:45 pm
Bronek - I don't think too much marmalade is eaten in the USA. Perhaps these parcels were from the UK. It doesn't matter anyway because not enough people...
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ted sebestianski
sbstnsk
Apr 4, 2007 5:48 pm
Hi... I was at the posiolek Suchona-and only been privilage to get some ration sugar-confetti,coockies and bottle of wine-on the may 1-ST AS A NATIONAL...
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jean smith
jeantomaniak@...
Apr 4, 2007 6:34 pm
My father saved some of his bread in the hospital to feed to the village dog he knew would chase him when he got back. But the dog never appeared. As a...
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Zbigniew Bob Styrna
b_styrna
Apr 4, 2007 6:36 pm
Ha ha ,,…. Sorry Eve, of course I did not mean to suggest that it was our normal died. All I’m saying is when you’re starving, you’ll eat anything. My...
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ted sebestianski
sbstnsk
Apr 4, 2007 6:58 pm
Yes its American Baseball We in the village on sundays get together and play palanta. ted ... From: Zbigniew Bob Styrna To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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richardwieksza
Apr 4, 2007 7:08 pm
Hi, Yes my father too ate rat and raw potatoe.His prize possesion and only one he left the camp with was a blanket.He would trade this for bread on his long...
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Wit Bogma
witbogma
Apr 4, 2007 7:48 pm
Hi Try MIETEK which is from MIECZYSLAW , Regrds Witold Valerie <vcm@...> wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if Mytnik or Mitnik is a Polish...
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Zbigniew Bob Styrna
b_styrna
Apr 4, 2007 7:55 pm
Thanks Ted, I know a lot about baseball and I wanted to learn, research the connection between Polish Palant and current modern day baseball in Canada and USA....
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Wit Bogma
witbogma
Apr 4, 2007 8:13 pm
I can not be precise but palant was played in Poland in the middle ages--long before Columbus> Witold Zbigniew Bob Styrna <styrna@...> wrote:...
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ted sebestianski
sbstnsk
Apr 4, 2007 8:42 pm
That a difret game played among the boys just like playing with button... palant we used to play with 3,4 5 , boys and it wasnt profecinal game.. ... From: Wit...
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Barbara
bkwietniowski
Apr 4, 2007 8:59 pm
Hi Zbyszek, These links explain the rules of palant: http://www.angielski.co.uk/cricket_palant.htm ...
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lulu
l.blazejowska
Apr 4, 2007 9:52 pm
Dear Anton, My great-grandfather's story about the chickens in Russia not laying eggs (as opposed to the Polish chickens which did lay eggs before they were...
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Andy Golebiowski
andywbuffalo
Apr 4, 2007 10:00 pm
Dear Eve, As far as I can tell, Pani Borstowa was in Kazakhstan at the time in a village called Kratoyark, which she describes as being 120km from Lubiaza. ...
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Valerie
valeriemeare
Apr 4, 2007 10:14 pm
Sorry, I should have said that Mytnik or Mitnik is a surname....
