Was there a particular word for Russian soldiers that might have been used by people in Lwow? I have a "testimonial" written by a young man in Anders Army...
All these wonderful stories, but has anyone had experience (first or second hand) of eastern Kazakhstan? I'm thinking of the stretch between Semey and Ayagoz....
Please can someone give me a hint as how to pronounce Zbyszek? ziz-beck? I am to telephone a gentleman by that name and don't have the slightest idea of how to...
Hello folks going to bring this thread forward. I'm probably a little over eager but still curious if anyone who sent requests has heard back from Halina at...
Dear Group, Mrs Anna Felsztynska, with her husband Stefan, left Warsaw in September 1939 and escaped to Lvov. They were both arrested by NKWD in spring 1940 in...
Everyone uses the name freely, like Black Forest, but what was the forest exactly? It's quite close to Smolensk. Was it parklike? It had an NKVD "resort" on...
Witam; not sure if anyone needs to view and hasn't yet a list of surnames in Lyczakowski Cemetary in Lwow from a book by prof. Stanisław Niciei. This...
Hi, This is addressed to the provider of the Altaj map with the Barnaul. I tried to locate the Vostochnyj Posielok (V. P.) on that map but lettering is too...
I began a dialogue with the organizers of the Baumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration at the University of Minnesota Duluth several months ago about including...
I just came across this fascinating site.......great photos ofgulag camp work, lifr, childhood pictures, etc and sound interviews of survivors. Interview...
Witam; I'm looking for any information about Wladyslaw Bednarczuk son of Ignacy from Wlodzimierz Wolynski. After the war lived in Britain. Currently...
Dear Group: In Poland, A History by Adam Zamoyski, 2009, I came across some interesting facts regarding Poland's devastation after World War I. Among them: ...
Witam, would like to share this article below with you if I may. Pozdrawiam Krystyna,Toronto By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Dan Currell Posted: Tuesday, March...
Dear Kresy members, I spent some time digesting all the information from the Siberia Deportation Lists, old and new Russia Siberia maps, KARTA deportations...
I just checked the Wall of Names....and in editing the information...you are asked if the person died in the war...Yes or No....then you fill in the date when...
Dear Krystyna, We will be taking a tour of Poland this August. Yesterday the travel agent informed me that the Cemetery is closed on weekends. We are flying...
Thank you for posting this list! My great-grandfather, Bronislaw Szwarce, is on this list. Although I knew that he was buried in Lvov (there is a monument to...
I search for pictures from gulag camps to enlistment to the First Evacuation in March 1942...and some of the best of the few that are available are in this...
Today's Charlottesville Daily Progress (Charlottesville is in central Virginia) has a front-page article in its Lifestyle section about my father's, Stefan...
Thank you for all your comments. I have now read them all but I have not found the answer I was hoping to share with some of you. I would have closed the book...
Enclosed please find a close up of Chervyanka close to the Ob river . A Posiolek just south east of Barnaul Siberia. Hope this is of interest to some. Zbigniew...
Helen's email about husband's grandmother, Helena Rajska cutting a piece of the fur coat and wearing it the rest of her life in the collar prompted me to share...
In today's Wall Street Journal there's a review of a children's book about life in the Soviet Union. It contains this interesting paragraph: "Until recently,...
Dobry wieczr! Here's another site with pictures from the camps http://www.xxwiek.pl/tagi/zes%C5%82a%C5%84cy Stefan J, I can't help noticing the abundance of...
Group, I just recently recieved few items from Sikorski Inst from 5 persons in my dad's family which included passport pages from Teheran(1943) with stamped...
My late father was imprisoned behind the Arctic circle in Vorkhuta, where he was forced to fell trees. He had very little warm clothing and spoke of having to...
Hello Could someone help me with translating this E-mail i received Google translate made no sence to me. Szanowny Panie; informuj i opata wpyna na konto Urzdu...
Can we hope that Timothy Snyder will educate a lot more people about the horrors Stalin perpetrated in Poland's Kresy? And wake them up to the fact that the ...
