Usually only the hijacked email account holder needs to change accounts and
passwords. Hania says that Yahoo have promised to get back to her, so they may
clarify further (they may say it's a virus or they may say that a bunch of
accounts and passwords have been compromised, in which case they should contact
all concerned and it'll be a major news story). An anti-virus application will
fail to spot such a virus if the recipient has already accepted it by opening
it. The warning choices displayed when you receive an attachment always say
something like "Do wish to scan this before opening it?" and most people assume
that if it's from someone they know then it's safe. It's a huge nuisance. Many
people would like to do unspeakable things to the perpetrators!
Henry Pavlovich
_______________________________
My book, Worlds Apart: Surviving Identity and Memory, is available from online
retailers, e.g. Amazon. There is more about the book and the context behind it
at www.henrypavlovich.com (ISBN 978-1-84728-226-2)
Some photos are on www.pbase.com/pavlovich

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "Barbara Milligan" <bwbm@...> wrote:
>
> Do all of us have to set up new accounts and passwords or just Hania?
>
> Basia
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: henrypavlovich
>   To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:56 PM
>   Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Hijacked email accounts
>
>
>     This is unfortunately a common scam nowadays. It is the same as that which
affected the Hotmail account of British Justice Secretary Jack Straw. An email
purporting to be from him went to his own office and hundreds of his
constituents informing them he needed cash in Lagos, Nigeria, because he had
lost his wallet. He had not been to the country. Usually the hoax email asks the
recipient to send money by Western Union. It is a computer virus targeting
Hotmail or Yahoo user names and passwords. The virus gets past computer
firewalls and anti-virus applications by pretending to be something benign which
the recipient clicks open and activates (usually an attachment like a photo or
spreadsheet). You have to set up new accounts and change all your passwords.
Henry Pavlovich
>   _______________________________
>   My book, Worlds Apart: Surviving Identity and Memory, is available from
online
>   retailers, e.g. Amazon. There is more about the book and the context behind
it
>   at www.henrypavlovich.com (ISBN 978-1-84728-226-2)
>   Some photos are on www.pbase.com/pavlovich
>

Many group member's email adresses rejected this bogus email and I was notified
of that...as their email address didn't like the recipient and so on. So some
people's computers were able to not accept this...I don't know why some did and
others didn't.

hania


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Also I'd like to warn people that the Yahoo page that appeared on my screen
about a week ago said that changes were being made in the accounts and passwords
had to be retyped and info filled out or you wouldn't be able to use your
account.�This did not come as an email that I opened...the screen appeared on my
page from nowhere....�Questions that were asked of me were " my favorite
teacher'...and " my first car"....and of course my password.....this�page with
the questionaire did pop up yesterday�during my initial sign in with Yahoo...as
I was opening my email messages...then I lost my password.�Not everyone is as
smart as John to actually contact Yahoo....who has the time when something looks
so authentic...but my gut feeling at the time was to question whether this was
legitimate but everything looked authentic and I didn't think it was possible to
be from somewhere else.

hania�


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Hello all,

Here is a message I received from Danka Pniewska in the UK:

Krystyna Szypowska
Group Moderator

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
----
    I am involved in two fundraisings -
    a) the chapel Golgota Wschodu in Częstochowa and
    b)The Komitet 70 a group of 5 organizations of people who
    were young 70 years ago, survived deportations, organized Polish
    schools, churches, scouting, etc. abroad, and now are dying out.
    We are organizing a show and an exhibition in POSK London on
    the 6th of February 2010 aimed at the Polish Saturday Schools
    pupils and the new Polonia, trying to pass to them our memories.
    Should we gather any interesting exhibits or testimonials,
     we will gladly pass them over to KSVM.

    I also wanted to inform you that on the 12th of November at 6.30
    PM we will hold a launch of our book "Second World War Story
    of Poles in India 1942-48" at Nehru Centre in London,
    everybody welcomed. Can you pass this information to the
    other members of Kresy-Siberia?
    Thanks,

    Danka

I received such certificate from Tarnopol, a request instigated by Memorial. A
very helpful lady, Pani Olga Czeperova, Czlonek Komisji Polskiej, has also
contacted other organizations on my behalf. i.e: Russian Red Cross, Uzbek
Archives, etc. -all on her own initiative!  It is no wonder they received an
Award!

Aniela
Auckland N.Z.

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "George" <ghelon@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> "Elizabeth Olsson" wrote:
>
> How did you know about or get this certificate? Is it something you applied
for?
>
> How can our family members be pardoned for crimes they never committed? They
were never accused of any crimes or sentenced by a court! Well, at least not the
civilians who were sent to Posiolki.
>
> ANSWER:
>
> I did not apply for any such Judgement of "Rehabilitation" and I had no idea
such a Certificate was being sent to me.
>
> "Rehabilitation" in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the
Post-Soviet states [Including the Ukraine], was the restoration of a person who
was criminally prosecuted without due basis, to the state of exoneration.
>
> The restoration of one's former: status, rank, privileges, or rights; albeit,
theoretically.
>
> I wonder if anybody else has received such a Document?
>
> [Wieslaw] George Helon
> Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
>

----- Original Message -----

From: Anne Kaczanowski

To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:20 PM

Subject: Re: [Kresy-Siberia] Hijacked email accounts

 

Thanks for the information Henry.  I scanned my computer and it showed no virus...then I uninstalled and reinstalled Norton anitvirus software, and rescanned the full system.
....and it says no virus or spyware found. Do you think that it is possible there is still a virus or spyware attached here somehwere.  I have contacted Yahoo because this happened while I was in my account at Yahoo and it definitely took my password.  They said they would get back to me in 24 hours.

 

hania

---

From: henrypavlovich <henrypavlovich@yahoo.com>
To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 7:56:14 AM
Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Hijacked email accounts

 

This is unfortunately a common scam nowadays. It is the same as that which affected the Hotmail account of British Justice Secretary Jack Straw. An email purporting to be from him went to his own office and hundreds of his constituents informing them he needed cash in Lagos, Nigeria, because he had lost his wallet. He had not been to the country. Usually the hoax email asks the recipient to send money by Western Union. It is a computer virus targeting Hotmail or Yahoo user names and passwords. The virus gets past computer firewalls and anti-virus applications by pretending to be something benign which the recipient clicks open and activates (usually an attachment like a photo or spreadsheet) . You have to set up new accounts and change all your passwords. Henry Pavlovich
____________ _________ _________ _
My book, Worlds Apart: Surviving Identity and Memory, is available from online
retailers, e.g. Amazon. There is more about the book and the context behind it
at www.henrypavlovich. com (ISBN 978-1-84728- 226-2)
Some photos are on www.pbase.com/ pavlovich

Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now!

----- Original Message -----

From: Lucyna Artymiuk

To: 300PolishSquadron@yahoogroups.com ; com, POLISHAUSTRALIANGENEALOGY@yahoogroups. ; Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:26 AM

Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p18s01-hfes.html

Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees

Hello. Thank you. Goodbye now. These words are the extent of my Farsi, so when a caretaker answered the bell at the gate of Tehran's Roman Catholic cemetery I froze. Truthfully, I hadn't anticipated that anyone would be watching over this quiet monument to a time most have forgotten.

The caretaker looked at me and his one-word question provided the password to enter.

"Polish?" he asked.

"Polish," I replied.

Last spring, I set out to explore Iran. As an American, I saw the trip as an opportunity to experience everyday Iran, to move beyond the political suspicions and outrageous rhetoric that have kept our countries at odds for 30 years. I looked forward to 12 days of art, history, Iranian food, and the chance to meet locals in a culture famed for its hospitality. It wasn't until I mentioned the trip to my grandmother that I began to consider searching out the piece of my family history that lies buried in the capital of the Islamic Republic.

I grew up hearing the story of my grandmother's long journey to America. Awakened in the middle of the night by soldiers on her farm in Poland, shipped off to Stalin's Siberia, then on to Tehran, and finally India, my grandmother spent her youth in the World War II refugee camps of Asia.

I was raised on Long Island, the second generation afforded the placid comforts of suburbia. My grandmother's history was powerful but distant, almost incomprehensible.

In 1939, my grandmother lived on the fault line of a world breaking apart. Poland was partitioned between the USSR and Nazi Germany. She lived in the east and was among the tens of thousands of Poles exiled in the early years of the Soviet occupation as part of Stalin's plan to populate Russia's northern regions. Along with her mother and three sisters she struggled to survive in Siberia. Later, when Hitler invaded Soviet territory, Stalin saw potential Allied soldiers in the Polish men he had uprooted and exiled. They and their families were freed and sent to Persia to rally as the Polish division of the Allied army.

By the time my grandmother and her sisters arrived in Tehran they were hungry and broken. Starvation and the harsh Siberian winter killed many Poles that year, my great-aunt among them. Seventeen years old, weakened and ravaged by the journey to Persia, Zenobia Kaftan never left Tehran.

A few days before my trip I e-mailed the Polish Embassy with my great-aunt's name. To my surprise they responded with directions to Dulab Cemetery in south Tehran where Zenobia had been buried in 1942.

My grandmother asked me to place four white roses on her grave, one for her mother and each of her sisters. I promised to try, but 67 years and a world of change had passed since my grandmother had buried her sister. I held little hope that the grave of a teenage refugee, one among thousands, would be traceable.

Iran is a beautiful and fascinating country. Spring break turned out to be everything I had looked forward to. On my last day in the capital, a friend and I found a taxi and set out in search of my great-aunt's grave. Our young driver made circles around the crowded southern neighborhood the Polish Embassy had pointed us toward until, tucked away on a side street, we spotted a tall gate with a cross. I rang the bell nervously, worried I might not find a way in. The two caretakers who answered seemed surprised to have a visitor. But they knew why I had come. They offered me tea and helped me search.

In Dulab Cemetery, the Polish plots are laid in pink stone, forming a small sea of those lost between 1942 and '43. "Zenobia Kaftan, 12/24/24 � 2/2/42 R.I.P." I placed my hand on the headstone, moved by the strangeness of finding family in a place so foreign.

My grandmother and her sisters had been marked by Stalin as disposable people, forgotten by a world that was falling to pieces. Persia became a home in their time of need.

Recently, the world bore witness to the violence being meted out in the streets of Tehran. Yet, in spite of the brutality, Iranians continued to gather; they refused to be silenced. As I watched I thought of my grandmother's journey, of the human costs of political corruption and greed, and not least of the surprising tenacity of the human spirit.

---

No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.424 / Virus Database: 270.14.47/2478 - Release Date: 11/03/09 07:36:00

----- Original Message -----

From: Lucyna Artymiuk

To: 300PolishSquadron@yahoogroups.com ; com, POLISHAUSTRALIANGENEALOGY@yahoogroups. ; Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:26 AM

Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p18s01-hfes.html

Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees

Hello. Thank you. Goodbye now. These words are the extent of my Farsi, so when a caretaker answered the bell at the gate of Tehran's Roman Catholic cemetery I froze. Truthfully, I hadn't anticipated that anyone would be watching over this quiet monument to a time most have forgotten.

The caretaker looked at me and his one-word question provided the password to enter.

"Polish?" he asked.

"Polish," I replied.

Last spring, I set out to explore Iran. As an American, I saw the trip as an opportunity to experience everyday Iran, to move beyond the political suspicions and outrageous rhetoric that have kept our countries at odds for 30 years. I looked forward to 12 days of art, history, Iranian food, and the chance to meet locals in a culture famed for its hospitality. It wasn't until I mentioned the trip to my grandmother that I began to consider searching out the piece of my family history that lies buried in the capital of the Islamic Republic.

I grew up hearing the story of my grandmother's long journey to America. Awakened in the middle of the night by soldiers on her farm in Poland, shipped off to Stalin's Siberia, then on to Tehran, and finally India, my grandmother spent her youth in the World War II refugee camps of Asia.

I was raised on Long Island, the second generation afforded the placid comforts of suburbia. My grandmother's history was powerful but distant, almost incomprehensible.

In 1939, my grandmother lived on the fault line of a world breaking apart. Poland was partitioned between the USSR and Nazi Germany. She lived in the east and was among the tens of thousands of Poles exiled in the early years of the Soviet occupation as part of Stalin's plan to populate Russia's northern regions. Along with her mother and three sisters she struggled to survive in Siberia. Later, when Hitler invaded Soviet territory, Stalin saw potential Allied soldiers in the Polish men he had uprooted and exiled. They and their families were freed and sent to Persia to rally as the Polish division of the Allied army.

By the time my grandmother and her sisters arrived in Tehran they were hungry and broken. Starvation and the harsh Siberian winter killed many Poles that year, my great-aunt among them. Seventeen years old, weakened and ravaged by the journey to Persia, Zenobia Kaftan never left Tehran.

A few days before my trip I e-mailed the Polish Embassy with my great-aunt's name. To my surprise they responded with directions to Dulab Cemetery in south Tehran where Zenobia had been buried in 1942.

My grandmother asked me to place four white roses on her grave, one for her mother and each of her sisters. I promised to try, but 67 years and a world of change had passed since my grandmother had buried her sister. I held little hope that the grave of a teenage refugee, one among thousands, would be traceable.

Iran is a beautiful and fascinating country. Spring break turned out to be everything I had looked forward to. On my last day in the capital, a friend and I found a taxi and set out in search of my great-aunt's grave. Our young driver made circles around the crowded southern neighborhood the Polish Embassy had pointed us toward until, tucked away on a side street, we spotted a tall gate with a cross. I rang the bell nervously, worried I might not find a way in. The two caretakers who answered seemed surprised to have a visitor. But they knew why I had come. They offered me tea and helped me search.

In Dulab Cemetery, the Polish plots are laid in pink stone, forming a small sea of those lost between 1942 and '43. "Zenobia Kaftan, 12/24/24 � 2/2/42 R.I.P." I placed my hand on the headstone, moved by the strangeness of finding family in a place so foreign.

My grandmother and her sisters had been marked by Stalin as disposable people, forgotten by a world that was falling to pieces. Persia became a home in their time of need.

Recently, the world bore witness to the violence being meted out in the streets of Tehran. Yet, in spite of the brutality, Iranians continued to gather; they refused to be silenced. As I watched I thought of my grandmother's journey, of the human costs of political corruption and greed, and not least of the surprising tenacity of the human spirit.

---

No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.424 / Virus Database: 270.14.47/2478 - Release Date: 11/03/09 07:36:00

This is the internet term for what Hania was a victim of: the hacker copies a
real web site (belonging to Yahoo, Hotmail, Paypal, or more often even a bank)
from the genuine original website and then sends it to a victim with a lie. The
design of the email copied from a genuine original and the lying message are
designed to make the recipient think it's genuine and voluntarily to give up
account and password details. The lie is often that there is a security check,
or that your account has been blocked temporarily, and that you need to enter
your account details and password. If the "phishing" involves a fake bank or
Paypal request, then your money disappears. If a bank is involved, it is best to
contact the real bank (not through the received email) to ask if the message is
genuine. Most anti-virus packages (e.g. Kaspersky) will spot phishing attempts
and warn you (loudly if you have the sound switched on). Unfortunately for
Hania, Yahoo will say it was her fault. Thank goodness she didn't lose any
money; I hope she didn't. Henry Pavlovich
_____________________________________________
My book, Worlds Apart: Surviving Identity and Memory, is available from online
retailers, e.g. Amazon. There is more about the book and the context behind it
at www.henrypavlovich.com (ISBN 978-1-84728-226-2)
Some photos are on www.pbase.com/pavlovich

Antoni, I have the Skwarek/Skwarok name in my family tree.  In the ancestral
records from Jasienow Polny: Births 1876 - 1889 Flm No 2205426 Item 6 the name
is spelt Szkwarko.

Cathy

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "Antoni Kazimierski" <ASKAZIMIERSKI@...>
wrote:
>
> Sofia,
> As far as I know there were ZAOZIERJE,;TOROS-OZIERO; SZOMB-OZIERO; TUSZYLOWO
and POLOWINO camps in the
> Karelo-Finskoj area of the Soviet Union.
> Are these names familiar to your mom?
> Or was Karelja itself where she was and were there other members of her family
in the same region?
> Presumably we are to look for Skwarek name--is it so?
> A little more help is required.
> Antoni530
>

Dear All,

In order to avoid any problems with viruses being inadvertently passed on to our
members it has been decided that the file attachment feature should be turned
off.

Effective immediately, it will no longer be possible to attach files or photos
to your messages.

Krystyna Szypowska, for Stefan Wisniowski

Perhaps some of you know this song, which became a hymn for Polish exiles around
the world.

You can see/hear a rendition of it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYpZgox5RU

It was sung at our All Souls Commemoration by Fr. Czeslaw Krysa, and earlier at
a Reunion Mass of Polish WWII Survivors in Buffalo.


Modlitwa Obozowa (O, Panie...)

Słowa i muzyka: Adam Kowalski

O Panie, któryś jest na niebie,
Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń,
Wołamy ze wszech stron do Ciebie
O polski dach i polską dłoń.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj,
Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj,
By stał się źródłem nowej siły
Nasz dom, nasz kraj.

O Panie, usłysz prośby nasze,
Wysłuchaj nasz tułaczy śpiew,
Znad Warty, Niemna, Bugu, Sanu,
Męczeńska do Cię woła krew.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj

O Panie, wejrzyj sprawiedliwie
Na walkę naszą w ciemną noc.
Modlimy się o to gorliwie,
By okupanta złamać moc.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj

Pieśn ta została ułożona i śpiewana po raz pierwszy 70 lat temu-w
październiku 1939 roku w obozie w Rumunii przez żołnierzy Polskich.


(English Translation)

Camp Prayer O, Lord in Heaven, Extend a just hand, We call to You from all
corners, For a Polish roof and a Polish hand.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land,
Let us return to a Poland that's free,
So that it may be a source of new strength,
Our home, our land.

O, Lord, hear our prayers,
Hear our exile's song,
From the Warta, the Niemen, the Bug and the San Rivers,
The Martyrs' Blood Calls to You.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land

O, Lord, see justly, Our battle in the darkness of night,
We fervently pray,
To break the occupier's might.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land

This song was written and first sung 70 years ago, in October 1939 by Polish
soldiers imprisoned in Romania and continued to be sung by Poles in the various
countries they found themselves in during WWII and after.

Andy Golebiowski
Buffalo, N.Y.
USA

----- Original Message -----

From: Aniela

To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:24 AM

Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Re: Rehabilitaion [Exonertation] Certificate

 

I received such certificate from Tarnopol, a request instigated by Memorial. A very helpful lady, Pani Olga Czeperova, Czlonek Komisji Polskiej, has also contacted other organizations on my behalf. i.e: Russian Red Cross, Uzbek Archives, etc. -all on her own initiative! It is no wonder they received an Award!

Aniela
Auckland N.Z.

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "George" <ghelon@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> "Elizabeth Olsson" wrote:
>
> How did you know about or get this certificate? Is it something you applied for?
>
> How can our family members be pardoned for crimes they never committed? They were never accused of any crimes or sentenced by a court! Well, at least not the civilians who were sent to Posiolki.
>
> ANSWER:
>
> I did not apply for any such Judgement of "Rehabilitation" and I had no idea such a Certificate was being sent to me.
>
> "Rehabilitation" in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet states [Including the Ukraine], was the restoration of a person who was criminally prosecuted without due basis, to the state of exoneration.
>
> The restoration of one's former: status, rank, privileges, or rights; albeit, theoretically.
>
> I wonder if anybody else has received such a Document?
>
> [Wieslaw] George Helon
> Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
>

----- Original Message -----

From: Andrzej w Buffalo

To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:40 PM

Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] "Camp Prayer" O, Panie ktorys jest na niebie

 

Perhaps some of you know this song, which became a hymn for Polish exiles around the world.

You can see/hear a rendition of it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYpZgox5RU

It was sung at our All Souls Commemoration by Fr. Czeslaw Krysa, and earlier at a Reunion Mass of Polish WWII Survivors in Buffalo.

Modlitwa Obozowa (O, Panie...)

Słowa i muzyka: Adam Kowalski

O Panie, któryś jest na niebie,
Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń,
Wołamy ze wszech stron do Ciebie
O polski dach i polską dłoń.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj,
Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj,
By stał się źródłem nowej siły
Nasz dom, nasz kraj.

O Panie, usłysz prośby nasze,
Wysłuchaj nasz tułaczy śpiew,
Znad Warty, Niemna, Bugu, Sanu,
Męczeńska do Cię woła krew.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj

O Panie, wejrzyj sprawiedliwie
Na walkę naszą w ciemną noc.
Modlimy się o to gorliwie,
By okupanta złamać moc.
O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj

Pieśn ta została ułożona i śpiewana po raz pierwszy 70 lat temu-w październiku 1939 roku w obozie w Rumunii przez żołnierzy Polskich.

(English Translation)

Camp Prayer O, Lord in Heaven, Extend a just hand, We call to You from all corners, For a Polish roof and a Polish hand.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land,
Let us return to a Poland that's free,
So that it may be a source of new strength,
Our home, our land.

O, Lord, hear our prayers,
Hear our exile's song,
From the Warta, the Niemen, the Bug and the San Rivers,
The Martyrs' Blood Calls to You.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land

O, Lord, see justly, Our battle in the darkness of night,
We fervently pray,
To break the occupier's might.

O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land

This song was written and first sung 70 years ago, in October 1939 by Polish soldiers imprisoned in Romania and continued to be sung by Poles in the various countries they found themselves in during WWII and after.

Andy Golebiowski
Buffalo, N.Y.
USA

-----Original Message-----
From: H-Net Network on Migration History [mailto:H-MIGRATION@...]
On Behalf Of Schrover, M.L.J.C.
Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 12:28 AM
To: H-MIGRATION@...
Subject: Cfp: CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND THE MIGRATION EXPERIENCE




CALL FOR PAPERS/ POSTER PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE
CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND THE MIGRATION EXPERIENCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND
CHALLENGES Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London, NW4 4BT - Friday
21 May 2010
Confirmed Keynote speakers:    Prof Viv Edwards, NCLL, University of
Reading
        				 Prof Ann Phoenix, Institute of
Education, University of London

In recent years new patterns of migration to Britain and other European
states have emerged associated with, for example, EU enlargement. These
have had diverse implications for family migration strategies.  In
contrast to historical patterns of migration which were generally
perceived as involving long term or permanent settlement, this new
migration often involves more transitory patterns of mobility.
Nevertheless, short term stay may be extended over time often leading to
family reunion and family formation.  The impact of this new migratory
strategies, especially on children, is beginning to be explored by
researchers and to spark interest among policy makers and service
providers as they respond to new needs, for example of new arrivals in
schools.
This conference will bring together research on a range of issues
relevant to this new phenomenon.

Specific themes may include:
* Current migration patterns, family strategies and family reunion
* Migrants from the new EU states
* The emotional impact of migration
* New arrivals and the transition to schooling
* Migration, education and parental expectations
* Language acquisition, language transition and bi-lingualism

Please send abstracts for papers or poster presentations of no more than
300 words to Magda Lopez Rodriguez at m.rodriguez@... by 16
December 2009.

The event is part of a project funded through the ESRC Knowledge
Transfer and Exchange Programme. The project aims to disseminate and
further discuss the findings of a research report Polish Children in
London Primary Schools: challenges and opportunities (funded by
Multiverse) amongst education practitioners, policy makers and
researchers. The final report of the project will be launched at the
conference.

Conference organisers: Louise Ryan, Alessio D'Angelo, Magda Lopez
Rodriguez and Rosemary Sales, Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex
University.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/hssc/research/centres/sprc/index.asp

Dr Louise Ryan,
Reader in Gender and Migration,
Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University,
Hendon, NW4 4BT Co-Director Social Policy Research Centre
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/research/centres/sprc/index.asp

HI ANDY, KRYSIU and ALL:

I seem to remember different wording to that beautiful song, one which now
brings back such wonderful memories from my childhood......

O Panie któryś jest na niebie,
Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń.
Wołamy z CUDZYCH ston to Ciebie
O Polski dach i Polską BROŃ.
O Panie skruć ten miecz co siecze nasz kraj,
Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj.
By STAŁ sie TWIERDZĄ nowej siły
Nasz dom, nasz dom!

Don't remember other verses, but this one is prominent in my mind.  Hope the
accents come out right!

BOZENA - Florida, USA

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "Krystyna Freiburger"
<krystynafreiburger@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy..................I always loved that Hymn. They still sing it in our
Polish Church but they do not sing certain  lines such as "Do wolnej Polski nam
powrocic daj" because Poland is free now but at the moment I can't remember the
words that they have replaced them with.
> Krystyna Freiburger
> Waterloo, Ontario
> canada
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Andrzej w Buffalo
>   To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:40 PM
>   Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] "Camp Prayer" O, Panie ktorys jest na niebie
>
>
>
>   Perhaps some of you know this song, which became a hymn for Polish exiles
around the world.
>
>   You can see/hear a rendition of it at:
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYpZgox5RU
>
>   It was sung at our All Souls Commemoration by Fr. Czeslaw Krysa, and earlier
at a Reunion Mass of Polish WWII Survivors in Buffalo.
>
>   Modlitwa Obozowa (O, Panie...)
>
>   Słowa i muzyka: Adam Kowalski
>
>   O Panie, któryś jest na niebie,
>   Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń,
>   Wołamy ze wszech stron do Ciebie
>   O polski dach i polską dłoń.
>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj,
>   Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj,
>   By stał się źródłem nowej siły
>   Nasz dom, nasz kraj.
>
>   O Panie, usłysz prośby nasze,
>   Wysłuchaj nasz tułaczy śpiew,
>   Znad Warty, Niemna, Bugu, Sanu,
>   Męczeńska do Cię woła krew.
>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj
>
>   O Panie, wejrzyj sprawiedliwie
>   Na walkę naszą w ciemną noc.
>   Modlimy się o to gorliwie,
>   By okupanta złamać moc.
>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj
>
>   Pieśn ta została ułożona i śpiewana po raz pierwszy 70 lat temu-w
październiku 1939 roku w obozie w Rumunii przez żołnierzy Polskich.
>
>   (English Translation)
>
>   Camp Prayer O, Lord in Heaven, Extend a just hand, We call to You from all
corners, For a Polish roof and a Polish hand.
>
>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land,
>   Let us return to a Poland that's free,
>   So that it may be a source of new strength,
>   Our home, our land.
>
>   O, Lord, hear our prayers,
>   Hear our exile's song,
>   From the Warta, the Niemen, the Bug and the San Rivers,
>   The Martyrs' Blood Calls to You.
>
>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land
>
>   O, Lord, see justly, Our battle in the darkness of night,
>   We fervently pray,
>   To break the occupier's might.
>
>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land
>
>   This song was written and first sung 70 years ago, in October 1939 by Polish
soldiers imprisoned in Romania and continued to be sung by Poles in the various
countries they found themselves in during WWII and after.
>
>   Andy Golebiowski
>   Buffalo, N.Y.
>   USA
>

Dear all,
          Go to www.youtube.com and do a search on:

   'Modlitwa Polskiego Zolnierza' (The Polish Soldier's Prayer).

Jurek Neisser


Quoting tinijoroga <tinijoroga@...>:

> HI ANDY, KRYSIU and ALL:
>
> I seem to remember different wording to that beautiful song, one
> which now brings back such wonderful memories from my childhood......
>
> O Panie któryś jest na niebie,
> Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń.
> Wołamy z CUDZYCH ston to Ciebie
> O Polski dach i Polską BROŃ.
> O Panie skruć ten miecz co siecze nasz kraj,
> Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj.
> By STAŁ sie TWIERDZĄ nowej siły
> Nasz dom, nasz dom!
>
> Don't remember other verses, but this one is prominent in my mind.
> Hope the accents come out right!
>
> BOZENA - Florida, USA
>
> --- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, "Krystyna Freiburger"
> <krystynafreiburger@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andy..................I always loved that Hymn. They still sing
>> it in our Polish Church but they do not sing certain  lines such as
>> "Do wolnej Polski nam powrocic daj" because Poland is free now but
>> at the moment I can't remember the words that they have replaced
>> them with.
>> Krystyna Freiburger
>> Waterloo, Ontario
>> canada
>>
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Andrzej w Buffalo
>>   To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
>>   Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:40 PM
>>   Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] "Camp Prayer" O, Panie ktorys jest na niebie
>>
>>
>>
>>   Perhaps some of you know this song, which became a hymn for
>> Polish exiles around the world.
>>
>>   You can see/hear a rendition of it at:
>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYpZgox5RU
>>
>>   It was sung at our All Souls Commemoration by Fr. Czeslaw Krysa,
>> and earlier at a Reunion Mass of Polish WWII Survivors in Buffalo.
>>
>>   Modlitwa Obozowa (O, Panie...)
>>
>>   Słowa i muzyka: Adam Kowalski
>>
>>   O Panie, któryś jest na niebie,
>>   Wyciągnij sprawiedliwą dłoń,
>>   Wołamy ze wszech stron do Ciebie
>>   O polski dach i polską dłoń.
>>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj,
>>   Do wolnej Polski nam powrócić daj,
>>   By stał się źródłem nowej siły
>>   Nasz dom, nasz kraj.
>>
>>   O Panie, usłysz prośby nasze,
>>   Wysłuchaj nasz tułaczy śpiew,
>>   Znad Warty, Niemna, Bugu, Sanu,
>>   Męczeńska do Cię woła krew.
>>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj
>>
>>   O Panie, wejrzyj sprawiedliwie
>>   Na walkę naszą w ciemną noc.
>>   Modlimy się o to gorliwie,
>>   By okupanta złamać moc.
>>   O Panie, skrusz ten miecz, co siekł nasz kraj
>>
>>   Pieśn ta została ułożona i śpiewana po raz pierwszy 70 lat
>> temu-w październiku 1939 roku w obozie w Rumunii przez żołnierzy
>> Polskich.
>>
>>   (English Translation)
>>
>>   Camp Prayer O, Lord in Heaven, Extend a just hand, We call to You
>> from all corners, For a Polish roof and a Polish hand.
>>
>>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land,
>>   Let us return to a Poland that's free,
>>   So that it may be a source of new strength,
>>   Our home, our land.
>>
>>   O, Lord, hear our prayers,
>>   Hear our exile's song,
>>   From the Warta, the Niemen, the Bug and the San Rivers,
>>   The Martyrs' Blood Calls to You.
>>
>>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land
>>
>>   O, Lord, see justly, Our battle in the darkness of night,
>>   We fervently pray,
>>   To break the occupier's might.
>>
>>   O, Lord, crush the sword that slashed our land
>>
>>   This song was written and first sung 70 years ago, in October
>> 1939 by Polish soldiers imprisoned in Romania and continued to be
>> sung by Poles in the various countries they found themselves in
>> during WWII and after.
>>
>>   Andy Golebiowski
>>   Buffalo, N.Y.
>>   USA
>>
>
>
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