Hi Stefan, it is from my book Sladem Zbrodni Katynskiej by Centralne Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych i Administracji RP (Warsaw 1998) which is a...
Dear Anna.  Yes, as far as the meaning of the statement, it's correct.  Regards. Ed (s.j.) NC usa ________________________________ From: annapacewicz...
John, thank you for all this excellent information, as this is my first viewing, I kept an open mind about the presentation, but after having my knowledge...
Hello Basia, It was so good to hear from someone at last who used to live near to my Michael, what a small world it is really isn't it ?. May I ask if your Mum...
Dear Cynthia, I understand that your Michael came from Wilejka (as in Stara - i.e. Old - Wilejka) which is a long way from Nowa Wilejka which is where my Mum's...
Hi Mark: First a general comment. Mark, I have no problem with you asking for evidence for any argument that I have advanced or what Poles like I believe. That...
Hi Anna If you family were in Lwow as were ine they would have been arrested by the UNKVD. The documents I have from the UNKVD relating to the confiscation of...
Dear UK members, Just a quick reminder that the annual reunion of Ognisko Rodzin Osadnikow Kresowych (Association of Kresy Family Settlers) will be held next...
Hi Louise, that's really helpful thank you. They were in Rowne but the reference is the Rowne oblast of the UNKWD as Stefan translated for me. This is not the...
Wladek, I support your way of thinking. You can not trust soviet statements and numbers. Stalin's statement: "Polish officers must have escapet to...
For those who have not been to one of the OROK reunions at Balham before, there will be a sit down meal with good food as well as music and singing. It is well...
So the arresting troops were completely different from the convoy troops that guarded the trains and took them to Kazakhstan? I suppose that makes sense, if...
Martin, I wish to address a few of your points and conclusion that might differ substantially from mine. You might be correct in your views based on your past...
Martin, I wish to address a few of your points and conclusion that might differ substantially from mine. You might be correct in your views based on your past...
Marin sent in error under the wrong reply Please disregard on this topic link. Julek ... Marin sent in error under the wrong reply Please disregard on this...
Dear group. I am still trying to ascertain the route that my family took when they were deported from Rowne on 13 April 1940 to Kazakhstan -as you know the...
Dan, My family and I immigrated through Ellis Island in 1952. The halls were packed with immigrants like ourselves. There were living quarters provided for...
"Passage of the Immigrant Quota Act of 1921 and the National Origins Act of 1924, which limited the number and nationality of immigrants allowed into the...
I can attest to this. My father Konstanty came to the US from the UNRRA camp at Pinneberg Germany via Hamburg in 1951. The ship was a "Liberty Ship" of the...
I think the answer to Julek's question is that it is one of perception. In speaking to my father and reading extensively on the subject as well as speaking to...
Several thousand Americans went to work in the USSR in the 1930s. They were recruited by the promise of work in the workers' paradise, rather like the...
My next-door neighbor escaped from Poland via East Berlin in the 1980s. He was seventeen or eighteen. Catholic Charities plucked him out of a displaced-persons...
This was not an internal revolution but in fact the invasion of a foreign power so for him it went beyond politics. While I do not believe he actively...
Dear Bernie, If the Poles could do this for them I think the reputation over the holocost is not deserved. I'm afraid it was not a Polish decision to make....
So, you are saying that the Poles would have sent them to Stalin then? And by extension Poles as a whole participated in the holocost? I think not. Bernie...
Hello Dan, Could not help but say a few words re;your neighbour & just how affluent these people are after all they have gone through & good luck to him ,you...
Dear Bernie, So, you are saying that the Poles would have sent them to Stalin then? Gerneral Ander was a good soldier on active service and would have done ...
