Barbara, I too wish you Happy New Year and this wonderful group for 2013. We will have hiccups along the way, but never never drop the values of the group,...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 1:21 pm
Thanks Mark. I guess that my built-in BS alarm goes off whenever I see those names, Baria, etc.... When I started this search, I figured out the bolshevik...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 1:23 pm
Interesting Rys. Thanks. Did your grnadfather participate in the Bolshevik war? Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: ryszardsys...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 1:30 pm
Thanks Stan. Here lies mystery of my grandfather. He was a State Policeman who could have been arrested and sentenced as you describe in #2 below. Yet, he was...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 31, 2012 2:14 pm
Dear Mark! Having lived most of my life in the Soviet Union, I was very little that surprises! Now all of Lviv churches transferred to believers, there are 4...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 2:17 pm
Yes, Happy New Year all. Lenarda, how did you know I have a bad case of hiccups? Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: LenardaSzymczak...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 2:59 pm
Dear Stan, S nastupayushem prazdnikom! One quick question... the word: rasporyazhenye I translate as "disposal";. Does it have any other meaning I don't...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 3:26 pm
Dear Mark, It seems the answer is his status as a State Police Sergeant, or/and service in the Bolshevik War/Defence of Lwow. Either of these would have been...
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ryszardsys
Dec 31, 2012 3:36 pm
Mark, Yes he did. He was injured in a skirmish near to Grodno (bajonet through the right leg) but held off an attack on his commanding officer and received a...
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antoni530
Dec 31, 2012 5:10 pm
Mark, Ref; RASPORYazheniye.... I think that a better meaning is that to ORDER..to Instruct . (Disposal is RASPOLOZHENIYE or dispoziciya.) On Rasporyadilsia...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Dec 31, 2012 5:54 pm
As the New Year approaches I think of my favorite photos from Lwow... I was able to visit years ago and relived the basic images from my own upbringing in...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 6:05 pm
Dear Antoni, The reason I raised the question is the twin meaning of "dispose": to have at one's own disposal or command but also to throw away the...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 31, 2012 6:37 pm
Yes Распоряжение, rasporyazhenie = disposal, bit less than order. NKWD Order - it is always printed, the first two digits 00 indicate top secret,...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 7:17 pm
Awesome; I am envious of your investigation result. Fantastic story! It sounds typically Polish that Grandad would play it down; its great that he said...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 7:25 pm
Thanks Mark. #1-b covers it. Is it fair to say his 'status' got him on the Arrest List, and then while imprisoned through interrogation or something else...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 7:43 pm
Mark T. I didn’t, but a good dose of correct research, usually fixes it. If not then stand on your head, drink glass water, while holding your nose. Happy...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 8:01 pm
Mark O, you used my grandfather Mikolaj exact words, as remembered by his daughter, my mother” being in the wrong place at the wrong time”. He was taken on...
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STEPHEN STELMASZUK
stephen.stel...
Dec 31, 2012 9:22 pm
Szczesliwego Nowego Roku Happy New Year from Bonnie Scotland the inventors of New Year/NerDay. ________________________________ From: LenardaSzymczak...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Dec 31, 2012 9:25 pm
Maybe I will go out and get some fireworks. I can send our shitsu puppy to his grandma. Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: LenardaSzymczak...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 9:33 pm
Dear Group, Just gone midnighht here. Happy New Year to you all! All the best for 2013. Best regards, Mark Ostrowski...
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J Eddis
joan.eddisto...
Dec 31, 2012 9:53 pm
Don't forget, Mark, to ponder just who was drawing up the NKVD lists of potential future Polish leaders. From my reading and discussions, I have the...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 10:04 pm
Ouch! Lenarda, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Tuesday, 01 January, 2013 8:26 AM ...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 11:35 pm
to all members, can I suggest you give your computer a complete scan for virus and clean up. Do not know whether me personally, something I accessed, or if it...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Dec 31, 2012 11:54 pm
It is these precious treasures which are shared and have such immense deep meaning – even for some members who are not directly linked – which make us such...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Jan 1, 2013 12:23 am
Dear Hania As always I love reading your post. The picture of (You?) and your aunt in the kitchen, I love that. Perhaps because our ancestors starved and were...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Jan 1, 2013 12:44 am
Nope that's not me..it's my cousin...but here's to pierogi anyway...Happy New Year...I've got 6 hours to g yet. hanai ________________________________ From:...
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annapacewicz
Jan 1, 2013 5:10 am
Hi Mark, I've just been reading Katyn: A crime without Punishment by Anna Cienciala, Natalia Sergeevna Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski. It is a compilation and...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Jan 1, 2013 5:42 am
Well, policemen and two other categories of deportees and Katyn victims--the veteran "settlers"; and the foresters--were uniquely fitted for a role in a future...
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annapacewicz
Jan 1, 2013 6:14 am
Hi Dan, thank you - you're absolutely right. I have heard that before, that the foresters had a knowledge of the forest that suited partisan activity pefectly....
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 1, 2013 6:32 am
Dear Rys, We were talking yesterday about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in your case I think it was the opposite your grandfather was in...
