BBC director/actor Adam Irving dressed up as Woijtek for the purposes of a new film being made on the famous soldier bear No, I'm not kidding... And I've...
I have added my mother's and brother's photos from Lusaka, Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) to my album in the KS photo gallery. which you can see access at...
Please see below - hope someone of us can go and announce our group and find survivors to interview. Otherwise, we might contact the priest to do so ... ...
check out this link for more info. There are lots of Polish legends, and worth reading through them to get a better understanding of history and the meaning...
A post by one of the academics on the H-RUSSIA listserv this morning called attention to a parliamentary proposal in Hungary that could essentially facilitate...
Greetings, all. My name is Dee Axelrod, and I live on an indian reservation in the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest of the US. I come to your group...
Dear Kresy Group, Thank you for your clarification of the term ( maz zaufania.) It makes much more sense now and family members are not rolling in their...
Aquila Polonica press has released its latest book about the experiences of Poles in World War II. Krysia Jopek's Maps and Shadows tells the story of her...
Dear Friends, There is a new facebook page devoted to what happened to Poland during WWII. It is called: The Way Back -- Stories of Poland's Rape, Murder,...
I visited Krakow last summer and in the Rynek Glowny is a church with a tower called the Mariatski, in which a trumpeter plays the hejnal every hour, although...
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The story of the Polish soldiers in Samarkanda and the Trumpeter is a very old one. If I'm not mistaken the Asiatic people date this back to the Mongol/Tatar...
To any member in the Christchurch area: You have to know that the thoughts and prayers of all of us in ‘safer’ areas of New Zealand, are with you during...
Hello, I think i I may have found my Grandmother's name of Karta http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/en/szczegoly.jsp?id=32523 Roza Hecht 1919. How can I get a full...
In Bloodlands, Snyder tells rather dramatically how Polish officers were rounded up after Lwow's surrender on September 22 in the "central square" and then...
The film helps many of us to see the Russian camps as they would have appeared to those who experienced them. Even the escape in many ways would have mirrored...
Dear Kresy Group, Found another note in my father's handwriting. I'm ignorant about some of the terms used. Would appreciate any clarification. Apparently,...
Well, I'm 'dumbfounded' My family in Ukr, mentioned 'Krasnoyarsk'when I was there, and dad's War Records state 'Russian Military' - so I assumed that he was...
Hello! Yesterday, Friday, February 18, our beloved Mom passed away peacefully at 8:19 P.M. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Eugenia(Lipinska)...
I have been asked by someone to find out some information about his relative. The name of the person is Kazimierz Zgraja. Apparently he had been deported to...
Hello, My name is Rosa Stewart and I am re-introducing myself to your group after an absence Of a year. I have no excuses other than almost fulltime work/ and...
Dear Friends, Krysia Jopek's new novel Maps and Shadows is based on the experiences of her family tells of their being taken to Siberia by the Soviets and...
Linder, perhaps little clarification please. You said he was the only bread winner as an illiterate farmer. In his documents it is given that he was employed...
Barbara, Thank you for posting your father's record where it says, as I have always said from previous copies I have seen, that a person was on the active...
