Barbara (and all who found my dad's recounts amusing), I have to say that we all try to find facts about where they came from, what they went through and where...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Jun 1, 2012 7:30 am
Hi Mark If I may add just an opinion rather than adding information as so many learned fellow Kresy Group do. It is mind boggling indeed, from every aspect and...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Jun 1, 2012 7:20 am
It's stunning isn't it Jozek. I too am relatively new (2 months) and am totally astounded at what I have been able to find out about my father. Basia Zielinska...
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Frances
frncsgts
Jun 1, 2012 3:38 am
Here's a good picture of the Military College in Lwow, with an article about its early development. http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/uid/picture/?pictureid=667...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jun 1, 2012 3:32 am
Mark I fully agree, with very patriotic, of high-values and principles and tough as nails. They were a unique people and a special generation and in the Kresy...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
Jun 1, 2012 3:20 am
Compulsory service has been discontinued now, but probably existed at the time. I cant be sure because it wasnt an issue in my research because my dad was...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jun 1, 2012 2:28 am
Hello Stan With acknowledgement and thanks to Strony O Wolyniu, found this information on Zwierzynski name, are any of them your relatives? ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jun 1, 2012 2:23 am
With grateful thanks to Strony O Wolyniu. More information on name Turkiewicz. Wie¶ PISZCZATYÑCE gromada Piszczatyñce, gmina Katerburg, powiat Krzemieniec, ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jun 1, 2012 1:41 am
Hi Stan and Mark Found these names on Strony O Wolyniu, are they your family? Original Polish text. Kolonia CZMYKOS gromada Czmykos, gmina Bere¼ce, powiat...
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halinamcd
Jun 1, 2012 1:40 am
Jozek The publication SPOTKANIA SWIRZAN – Nr 4 (59) Lubin 2004 contains the following list of people deported from Dobrzanica on 10 Feb 1940. It lists 29...
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Konrad Wraczynski
konsim1
Jun 1, 2012 1:18 am
Hello Louise and others. I asked the question about what I term, National Service and the Lwow Military School, because my father gave me the impression that...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 11:39 pm
Yes, we are who we are. I feel much richer now having undertaken to learn all of this now. It is mindboggling that none of this was shared earlier within the...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 11:36 pm
Thanks, when the KS website is back in action, I will check your maps. Your dad was a bit older than my dad, he was only grade 3 of secondary school when he...
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Joseph Jagiello
jjagiello...
May 31, 2012 11:06 pm
Dear Halina, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thank you so much for that link about the camp. I have down loaded it ( rather my wife Joy has ) and we...
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l.blazejowska
May 31, 2012 11:05 pm
Hi Folks My dad was in the Jozef Pilsudski Military School in Lwow (Batory Street) before the war. He had just obtained his school certificate in 1939 when war...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 11:03 pm
Thanks Dan. Mark Turkiewicz Canada ________________________________ From: Dan Ford <cub06h@...> To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31,...
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Yona Nadelman
yonakdesigns
May 31, 2012 10:38 pm
Since i have joined the Kresy-Siberia group, i have been reading the most interesting stories about Polish people who were deported to the then "Soviet...
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Joseph Jagiello
jjagiello...
May 31, 2012 10:01 pm
Hello Margot, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Like your mother and family, my father and mother were in a camp near Omsk, and also working in the...
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Dan Ford
godanford
May 31, 2012 9:25 pm
Basically, you were dumped in Kazakhstan to survive as best you could. The first stop I think was usually a collective farm. Many eventually got out of the...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
May 31, 2012 8:32 pm
Stan You did an absolutely marvellous piece of research, locating the co ordinates of Gribanova for Jozek and with Halina helping, to start you off. Amazing...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
May 31, 2012 8:09 pm
Dear John, Thanks to Halina, without her help I would not find this damn Gribanova. You were wrong for 2000 km - your family is really thrown in Irkutsk...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 7:05 pm
Thanks Dan. I had reviewed the train list on K-W and there is a couple of obvious-looking trains, until I read that some folks were brought to different...
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Dan Ford
godanford
May 31, 2012 3:11 pm
Oh, I didn't catch that. Yes, definitely, the families of the Katyn victims were indeed deported to Kazakhstan. That was in April 1940. On the Kresy-Siberia...
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Eva
eszegidewicz
May 31, 2012 12:08 pm
Hi Chris and Zaneta, welcome to the Group! Hope you find the Kresy-Siberia Group friendly, helpful and interesting. It was great meeting Chris last Thursday in...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 11:46 am
Seems like a perfect time for a big US donation to advance the K-S effort as a good gesture. Mark Turkiewicz Canada ________________________________ From: John...
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Mark Turkiewicz
turkiewiczm
May 31, 2012 11:41 am
Thanks Dan. I think you may have properly re-directed me. I do know my dads mom was in Kazak for sure so he probably was too. I also think it makes sense that...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
May 31, 2012 11:38 am
Perhaps it was deliberate rather than a gaffe? Foundation for calling Gitmo "a Cuban prison" to take responsibility away from the American administration? The...
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Dan Ford
godanford
May 31, 2012 10:36 am
It sounds to me that your dad enlisted as a "free exile" in which case he was probably in Kazakhstan and found the army the same way the civilians did, rather...
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cynthia pukiello
cynthia134461
May 31, 2012 9:43 am
Hello Christopher, I would like to wish you a warm welcome to our Kresy site, I'm sure it will surprise you in many ways & keep you busy but it is well worth...
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cynthia pukiello
cynthia134461
May 31, 2012 9:38 am
Hello Kris, A big warm welcome to Kresy, i'm sure you wil find a lot of info; but be prepared to work hard at it & something will turn up for you I am sure. ...
