Hi Rys You were indeed lucky with your father's birth certificate, but then, as they say, "one good turn deserves another". Well done! I wrote to the parish...
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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Nov 16, 2012 9:15 am
Dear All, I have been reading the various posts about the level of 'spats' that have been going on. Â I understand so well that feelings run high about certain...
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ryszardsys
Nov 16, 2012 9:20 am
Karen, I rang the Priest at Smorgonie church where my father was baptised. He said "all records have been destroyed." Thats why I thought that's the end of...
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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Nov 16, 2012 9:33 am
Dear Anna, I, too, have been asking questions about Red Army Conscription but I still don't understand. Â What I do know is that in Wolyn in about 1940 (not...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 9:46 am
Dear Anna and Barbara My Uncle was conscripted into army from the Zhitomir Region around that time and went to fight the Germans in Poland. Was wounded on...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 10:32 am
http://www.ww2.pl/gallery/ww2/en/head.gif Polish Army on the Eastern Front After bringing into light the Katyn massacre and breaking off the diplomatic ...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Nov 16, 2012 11:07 am
Please welcome Rebecca to the group. Her father was born in 1946 in Greven, Germany, in a displaced persons camp. His family were from Pinsk, Poland but were...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Nov 16, 2012 11:31 am
Halik Kochanski says that 210,000 Polish men were conscripted into the Red Army during the year and a half of Soviet occupation of eastern Poland. The call-ups...
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Andrzej w Buffalo
andywbuffalo
Nov 16, 2012 12:30 pm
Today, in Buffalo, N.Y., author Wes Adamczyk of Chicago, will give a talk and visual presentation entitled "Living in the Shadows of Katyn", about the...
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Eva Szegidewicz
eszegidewicz
Nov 16, 2012 3:34 pm
Message sent from Eva Szegidewicz, Kresy-Siberia (UK), Manchester: Merseyside Polonia would like to invite you for a very unique event with two special guests:...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Nov 16, 2012 8:25 pm
Dear Anna, Unit 2824:8th Dresden Infantry Division http://www.jednostki-wojskowe.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=416&Itemid=26 ...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 8:41 pm
Rebecca, welcome to group, my brother was also born in Germany 1946. My mother immigrated to Australia in 1949 from Eckenforde Germany a British Displaced...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 8:51 pm
Dan, my Uncle was part of this being born 1921, almost missed out. . The call-ups were supposed to affect all men born between 1890 and 1921. All I know is...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 9:56 pm
Hi group, looking through Google, there is some imformation about this topic, but at times controversial, not many want to speak of this. One site spoke of,...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 10:04 pm
Hi Elzunia, is this list useful to KS or other members. Do we have this list on our records?, KFALLEN ...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Nov 16, 2012 10:06 pm
Dear Group, FYI for those who like this sort of thing: POLISH ARMED FORCES UNDER BRITISH COMMAND (British War Office Figures) 35,000 were evacuated from...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 16, 2012 10:24 pm
Dear Group, I forgot to add, this list is not for numbers but gives a LIST OF NAMES, for those members whose family were left behind and think they may have...
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annapacewicz
Nov 17, 2012 12:55 am
Mark, thank you - that's great. Particularly as I'm writing the Overview for Retreat to Fight From the West. However, many of the figures I have come across...
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annapacewicz
Nov 17, 2012 1:01 am
Mark, thank you so much. Very interesting. It seems that the 8th Dresden Infantry Division started as a fighting unit of partisans in Eastern Poland until it...
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alphadea
Nov 17, 2012 5:07 am
Hi Anna and Barbara, My father told a story of being "drafted" into the Red Army. This was in the Ternopil region. He said 2 Russian soldiers came to his...
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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Nov 17, 2012 9:10 am
Good Morning group, I know that you made it very clear that the item you posted is in no way the opinion of the Kresy group. Â I hope and need to believe that...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 17, 2012 9:23 am
Barbara, if you read my recent post, then you will see that my Uncle had no choice either. There are many of us in group who have experienced this forced...
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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Nov 17, 2012 9:32 am
Dear Lenarda, I just want to say how much I always appreciate your posts. Â You do go to so much trouble to find information that you feel will help us all to...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 17, 2012 9:56 am
Barbara, if you were thinking any other way, this would not be Polish. All our parents are heroes. They survived Hell to give us a better life. Until i found...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Nov 17, 2012 10:49 am
It's a wonderful story, Sophia, and it is probably more or less true. One didn't have to shoot down a Russian plane to be accused of sabotage--damaging a rifle...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Nov 17, 2012 11:02 am
Another recent book that's worth reading is Isaac's Army, by Matthew Brzezinski. He's a Canadian of Polish parentage (and nephew I think of Jimmy Carter's...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Nov 17, 2012 11:21 am
Kochanski writes (p. 219): "The Polish Army, so painstakingly built up in France, was squandered to facilitate the retreat of the French Army. It suffered...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Nov 17, 2012 11:50 am
Kochanski also says (P.217) that the Polish Government tried in vain to get the11,000 interned in Switzerland released. Among the Polish community these...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Nov 17, 2012 3:26 pm
Hi Anna! Another shared conection; my Franciszek and your Jan were together on Katyn list #4. Now it looks like your Jozef and my Mieczyslaw may have been...
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halinamcd
Nov 17, 2012 9:04 pm
Mark Have you thought about contacting Boguslaw Turkiewicz (son of your grandfather's brother Jozef) directly regarding further information about Mieczyslaw...
