I was looking at my family name on the wall of names ,in the virtual museum,and next to my uncles name is "wrote a schoolchild essay in 1942 in the middle east...
... From: Barbara Milligan To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:25 AM Subject: help please Dear All, In my endless paper...
Hello I am researching my great grandparents Jakub and Maria nee Rybak, Telega. I have traced there records to the town of Studzian just south West of...
Since this week was the anniveresary of Feb 10 deportations, I have been invited to speak on our local Polish Radio in Kitchener Waterloo this coming Sunday,...
Dear Group, Has anyone read about the deportation of the inhabitants of the vicinity of the town Brzezany (Bzhezhany)on the 10th of February 1940 who were sent...
Dear Group, Tomorrow’s Polish program on CKJS 810 radio in Winnipeg, Manitoba will be dedicated to the Deportations of Polish citizens from the Eastern...
Witam; just wanted to share From the CBC Digital Archives.. Five years into the Second World War, the Soviet army was advancing on Nazi-occupied Warsaw. In a...
OROK's winter meeting in London, UK Saturday 19 Feb, 12.30-4-30 pm. At Polish club Orzel Bialy, Balham High Road £15 includes dinner with wine. Registration...
Hello , I posted a question yesterday. People seemed to suggest that I was looking for the Hoover Institute Archives. My next question, is who do I contact,...
As I said on another forum, "rehabilitate" seems about as appropriate in this instance as "amnesty" does to describe the "rehabilitation" of Polish nationals ...
I saw the movie "The Way Back", at a pre-screening in Los Angeles hosted by the Pollish Consul General, last night. I also had the honour of having a brief...
The Way Back chronicles the escape of a group of prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and their epic journey to freedom, travelling thousands of miles...
Hello everybody I found an old message post on your group and I was interested in the email address that someone posted. I am looking for information on my...
Dear Group, Here is an article about this past weekend's Katyn symposium in Cleveland, co-organized by Kresy-Siberia (USA) Foundation President, Maria Szonert:...
I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family & i came down here to Madrid,Spain for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last...
Joan your post should have made it clear that the raid on Washington was in retaliation for the Americans sacking Toronto some 9 months earlier but unlike the...
Does anyone know the duties of foresters? Until Krysia's recent post which said a particular forester had a hundred armed men at his disposal, I presumed that...
Dear Group, We are currently building Galleries in the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum, and we are in desperate need of drawings that depict life in the Gulag....
Does anybody know of anyone who can help with records from the Lwow area? My grandmother was born in Boryslaw. I found that out from her Lodz Ghetto death ...
Settling soldiers in the Kresy is the equivalent of what the British did in North America after the Napoleonic war of 1812. During that –mainly-- European...
Unusual way to teach people about life in Poland under Communism, but if it works, why not? Barbara Soja Revoet Connecticut _The Waiting Game: 'Communist...
The following was published in the October 1989 issue of the Christian Science Monitor. I'm amazed this was in a US magazine back in 1989. Coincidentally...
Hello everyone, I appeal to all members of the group asking for help. How many of you know, for years I searched for the 2nd Polish Corps in Puglia tracking...
