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48163 Sheila Bannister
sheilabeamish Send Email
Feb 1, 2012
9:26 am
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...
48164 martin stepek
martinstepek Send Email
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...
48165 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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:...
48166 Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun Send Email
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: ...
48167 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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...
48168 Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan Send Email
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...
48169 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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...
48170 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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...
48171 Bernard Starzewski
bernard_star... Send Email
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...
48172 Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun Send Email
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...
48173 AtticusFinch1048@...
atticusfinch... Send Email
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...
48174 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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...
48175 eve5j Send Email Feb 1, 2012
2:20 pm
You are incorrect, Dan. Ellis Island closed in 1954. Eve...
48176 eve5j Send Email 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...
48177 eve5j Send Email Feb 1, 2012
3:22 pm
I forgot to change the subject of this string. Sorry for the duplication. Eve...
48178 bstar53
bernard_star... Send Email
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...
48179 Dan Ford
godanford Send Email
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...
48180 Danuta Janina Wój...
gosford27 Send Email
Feb 1, 2012
10:36 pm
The last soldiers of the Second Republic - Outcast Soldiers. Tribute to the fallen (murdered) anti-communist underground soldiers. ...
48181 Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan Send Email
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...
48182 JanZ
zajaczkowski... Send Email
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...
48183 Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena Send Email
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...
48184 annapacewicz Send Email 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...
48185 Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak Send Email
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. ...
48186 Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun Send Email
Feb 2, 2012
6:48 am
Dear Anna, The U is probably "Ukrainian&quot;... NKWD would be the Polish for NKVD. If youn transliterate the Russian into Polish, that's what you come up with:...
48187 annapacewicz Send Email 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...
48188 Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun Send Email
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 ...
48189 stefan.wisniowski@...
skwisniowski Send Email
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...
48190 Vincent Geffroy
skydeberg Send Email
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...
48191 Zenon Kuzik
zenon.kuzik Send Email
Feb 2, 2012
11:10 am
Dear John, How particularly galling that Dzhugashvili&#39;s case is being heard by a court in Tver - the very same city where over six thousand Polish prisoners (a...
48192 Zenon Kuzik
zenon.kuzik Send Email
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";!  ...    ...
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