Well sure. The Soviets deported "osadnicy"; (military and civilian "settlers";) first of all in the 10 February 1940 mass deportation, as well as government...
As it Happened 8:30pm - 9:30pm The Polish Battle of Britain This dramatised documentary recounts how during the most decisive phase of the Battle of Britain, a...
Ha! yes indeed. My family were deported because they were considered 'bogaty'. Basically, they were farmers and owned some land. Also, I believe my grandfather...
Dear Group, I keep reading everywhere that the first wave of deportations , on February 10, 1940, took the families of political leaders, policemen and border...
Joanna The stories your father could tell! Is there any chance we could interview him for the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum, to preserve his stories for future...
Hi Wanda What time is the mass in Montreal? I have made no plan yet but would like to meet Montreal members and other Siberians between the Friday 12th to the...
Hello everyone-There was a displacement of Polish population during Czarist timed.When Poland gained it's independence after World War I,there was an exchange...
Hi Vincent Thanks for the e-mail and the thought. As it turns out Marian Moszoro has made contact with me and made a few points worth exploring, so who knows....
Hello Ela and Beata, I have had a copy of the film since it was issued, but have yet to watch it. I keep waiting for someone to volunteer to watch it with me,...
Beata, I can only imagine what your father would have felt. It is heart breaking. To think that all these men were just murdered because the Russians had...
Ela, My mother's family was arrested by traitor to Poland, (per court determination) Piotrowski, imprisoned in Wizna, then taken by a Russian cavalry and...
In case anyone didn't know of these... http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/WW2.html#Siberic and "The Siberic Gehenna" The Links at the foot of the section...
Hello Ela I watched this film a few months ago. My grandfather Jan Nikiel, a police sergeant in the village of Troszyn near the town of Ostroleka in Poland,...
Hi Jadziu, Perhaps his forebears had been deported? My grandfather was born in Russia - his grandfather had been deported but his children were considered free...
... Not impossible.... People were deported to Siberia from the Kingdom of Poland (the official pre-1917 name of Russian-occupied Poland) and from Russia...
Hi group, I think this is probably off topic, but I would be very grateful if somebody could help answer some questions. According to 'common family knowledge'...
Hi Stephan, Have you been able to make arrangement to speak in Montreal? I do not speak Polish and do not have connections in the Polish community. I spoke...
Stefan, Zdzis & Alex Apologies for my delayed response and thank you all for the replies! To quote Alex it's encouraging to hear of the good luck and...
Hi Marian Let us try to find out if we might be related. When was you grandfather born? My father was born in Przemyslany in 1921. This was the estate...
Campaign against ‘Polish concentration camps’ gains momentum 04.11.2010 09:00 Lech Walesa and former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński are...
Linder, You did it again! You created another beautiful memory book. Thank you so much for your hard work in putting it together and presenting it to Aneta's...
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Well, my name is Marian Moszoro. My grandfather Kazimierz was born in Kolomyja and studied Mechanical Engineering in Lwow. During WW2 he was enrolled in the...
Hi Jan Thanks for this information which I will now follow up. I wrote to Opole and received a reply which quoted his prisoner number and other details....
Now that is interesting! Mikel Moszoro was 75% Armenian and 25% Hungarian. Maybe not so much of a fantasy. Thanks, I'll follow that up Regards Richard ...
Richard Try using this site to search for your family in various pre-war directories: http://www.genealogyindexer.org/ e.g. searching for Pach Edward links you...
Teresa, Please look at the www.katedrapolowa.pl/html.php and especially at the 'Tabliczka' page with Major Rudolf Wizimirski name on it. antoni530 [Non-text...
In case the original version had some mixed up text, here is a re-send of Hania's poem: -- KRYSTYNA SZYPOWSKA Winnipeg, Manitoba Executive Director,...
