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...
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annapacewicz
Nov 17, 2012 10:49 pm
Dear Mark, There are so many parallel stories and I am feeling terrible that my Uncle Jozef is now dead and I really don't know what happened to him in the...
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annapacewicz
Nov 17, 2012 11:13 pm
Dear group, I am just reading Anders memoirs "Army in Exile". He regarding Berling as a traitor because he deserted the Polish Army in the USSR. I quote "I had...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 17, 2012 11:27 pm
Anna, you have described how my Uncle was injured; it was always a guess on my part and never confirmed. But how do you explain a back/spinal injury ...
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annapacewicz
Nov 17, 2012 11:30 pm
Dear group From Richard Overy's "Russia's War" I quote a passage on the Soviet ORDER 227 "NE SHAGU NAZAD" - "Not a step back!" "On July 28 (1942) Stalin ......
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 17, 2012 11:35 pm
This could indicate that the Polish teenagers taken by Germans, while they were retreating as slave workers, in 1942, could consider themselves lucky in a...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Nov 18, 2012 2:12 am
Yes Halina, both my sister and I had been in touch with Bogus, 'met' his family. He does go after some family information but had nothing on Mieczyslaw other...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Nov 18, 2012 2:22 am
I dont know of such archives but I have a few pending requests out there in russia, and will let you know. I had a recent negative response from IPN, very...
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland - Page 277 - Google Books Result ...
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Richard Kozlowski
r52302
Nov 18, 2012 3:08 am
Group, Apologies if I have asked this question before, but does anyone have any information on the Polish 3rd Armoured Brigade that would have taken part in...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 18, 2012 3:11 am
Hi group, find below FREE <http://www.ebookscenter.co.uk/> http://www.ebookscenter.co.uk/images/logo.gif...
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lenardaszymczak
Nov 18, 2012 3:14 am
Rich, my dad was in 8th Pulk, Calvary, captured 1939 and spent the rest of the war in Stalag 1-A. Lenarda, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
