The IOM did not contact many Polish forced labourers even though the germans had a list of all of these people and I myself applied for and received forced...
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martin stepek
martinstepek
Feb 1, 2012 9:31 am
Dear Julek You addressed a message directly to me (sections copied below) and I thank you for this. Ill try to answer the key points succinctly and...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 11:13 am
Can you tell me anything about this man, his book, and his website? http://www.s-ciesielski.com/start.html I was struck by this, forwarded to me by a deportee:...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Feb 1, 2012 11:31 am
Dear Dan, Another can of worms opened... he is one of the new wave of writers who has questioned the old figure for deporatations. His home page is: ...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 pm
That's interesting! Ellis Island as an immigration inspection and quarantine station was closed at least by the 1920s. My father "came over" in 1927 with a...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Feb 1, 2012 12:02 pm
Julian, Thankyou. I will buy it. All the best, Basia (UK) ... Julian, Thankyou. I will buy it. All the best, Basia (UK) On 31 Jan 2012, at 23:40, Julian Plowy...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 12:07 pm
Could you explain to an American what an honours degree entails? I have a friend who changed midway through university to an honours program, with the result...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 12:30 pm
The Oxford English dictionary defines holocaust as 1) a sacrifice by fire, 2) a large-scale sacrifice, 3) a great slaughter, especially by fire, and only then...
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Bernard Starzewski
bernard_star...
Feb 1, 2012 12:55 pm
Yes, but the term "The Holocost" has come to mean this particular genocide. I is without denial I think, the definitive example of systematic elimination of a...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Feb 1, 2012 12:55 pm
Dear Dan, I blame Richard of Devizes who gave us the term in its metaphorical sense in 1189: Now in the year of our Lord's incarnation 1189, Richard, the son...
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AtticusFinch1048@...
atticusfinch...
Feb 1, 2012 1:20 pm
Hi I have a BA(Hons) in History from a UK university and the with honours is exactly the same as summa cum laude or magna cum laude. Just we do not use the...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 1:37 pm
(And thank you for the 12th century holocaust reference! Of course the English were into burning heretics at the stake, so the fire connection might well have...
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eve5j
Feb 1, 2012 2:20 pm
You are incorrect, Dan. Ellis Island closed in 1954. Eve...
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eve5j
Feb 1, 2012 3:11 pm
Danuta, Yes, that is exactly what I am stating. In the most recent settlements from countries or corporations, ethnic Poles were totally excluded from...
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eve5j
Feb 1, 2012 3:22 pm
I forgot to change the subject of this string. Sorry for the duplication. Eve...
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bstar53
bernard_star...
Feb 1, 2012 3:26 pm
My father Konstanty did in fact receive some small compensation as a slave worker some 20 odd years ago. I think many either did not know or did not want to go...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 1, 2012 4:04 pm
Shut down, yes, but after 1924, it was a detention and deportation center. As Wikipedia explains: "After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly...
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Danuta Janina Wój...
gosford27
Feb 1, 2012 10:36 pm
The last soldiers of the Second Republic - Outcast Soldiers. Tribute to the fallen (murdered) anti-communist underground soldiers. ...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Feb 1, 2012 10:58 pm
I have a question for historians who know about birth and marriage certificates under Russian occupation of Poland. I have a photocopy of my great-grandparents...
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JanZ
zajaczkowski...
Feb 2, 2012 1:12 am
Paul, The Karta index lists those deported to Nucht Oziero. To see them just go to http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/pl/wyszukiwanie.jsp go to "wyszukiwanie w...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Feb 2, 2012 2:18 am
Well actually there were some tidbits of compensation.....and tidbits they were....for the ones put into forced labour by Germans into then occupied...
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annapacewicz
Feb 2, 2012 3:33 am
Dear group, one of the sources for my grandfather Jan Pacewicz who was executed in the Katyn massacre (Ukraine List) refers to the UNKWD: /2238/ PACEWICZ Jan...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 2, 2012 4:49 am
Anna Try this link in Polish, it has a translate function for English, but with all translates it is not absolute in correctness. ...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Feb 2, 2012 6:48 am
Dear Anna, The U is probably "Ukrainian"... NKWD would be the Polish for NKVD. If youn transliterate the Russian into Polish, that's what you come up with:...
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annapacewicz
Feb 2, 2012 7:02 am
Mark, thank you. Of course, you must be right. I can't believe I hadn't worked that out because in the same context NKWD ZSSR translates to NKVD USSR... silly...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Feb 2, 2012 7:44 am
Dear Paul and Janusz, "Maybe Mark Ostrowski can point you to the web pages where these children essays are located - I've not managed to work out how to ...
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stefan.wisniowski@...
skwisniowski
Feb 2, 2012 8:01 am
Hi Anna and reference othersŁ The Soviet NKVD had branches in each of the USSR's oblasts (provinces) and/or republics. These local units were all called...
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Vincent Geffroy
skydeberg
Feb 2, 2012 8:45 am
Hello Dan I know that the qualification for various degrees differs in the US. The South African system traditionally followed the British system, but I do not...
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Zenon Kuzik
zenon.kuzik
Feb 2, 2012 11:10 am
Dear John, How particularly galling that Dzhugashvili's case is being heard by a court in Tver - the very same city where over six thousand Polish prisoners (a...
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Zenon Kuzik
zenon.kuzik
Feb 2, 2012 11:15 am
Dear Danielle, I am absolutely thrilled that I have found a kindred spirit concerning the vile substance given the innocuous moniker, "Vegemite";! ... ...
