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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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 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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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 1:21 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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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 12:52 pm
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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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Dec 31, 2012 12:44 pm
Dear Group, I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year. May it bring good health, happiness and peace in your hearts. I wish...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 11:54 am
Dear Group, This is a good one. Some more data from the NKVD files. I am curious what point 4 refers to April/May 1940 was the time of the Katyn murders....
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 31, 2012 11:48 am
Anders at least must have looked like a great find. He spoke Russian and knew the Russian military system and practice, having served in the Imperial Army. -...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 31, 2012 11:46 am
Fascinating! And yes, the documents are intriguing. I look forward to a closer look at them! - Dan Ford US...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 10:54 am
Dear Stan, I know when I was in Lwow then, there were only two working Catholic churches: the Latin Cathedral and Saint Anthony's. The rest had been put to...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 31, 2012 10:47 am
Dear Group, The numbers and location of POWs as defined by the Soviets is as follows. These numbers are one year after the Katyn murders. The Source is from ...
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Carol Hornby-Clements
caz2ukuk
Dec 31, 2012 10:32 am
Great photos. I plan to go to Vilnius in 2013. Carol uk Grandfather Antoni Mieldun Father Jozef Mieldun - Mother Jophelia Baranowska Camp no 501 Urdoma...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 10:01 am
Hey group, hope you are tuned in to Sydney 9pm Fireworks, should be good and better still to come at Midnight with the Grand finale. We have two sets of ...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 31, 2012 9:51 am
Dear Mark! You have made me truly royal gift! Thanks huge! Lviv - this is my favorite city. Then I did not have a color camera. In Vilnius, I was just in...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 31, 2012 9:31 am
Dan! As me explained Mikhail Rogachev of Memorial (his thesis - Polish prisoners in Komi, he knows the question), Polish prisoners of war (POW) were not...
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lenardaszymczak
Dec 31, 2012 9:28 am
Rys, oh my goodness, that is such a story. This also means that there is more of this type of documentation floating around out there, I did not know what...
