Dear Lenarda I have been glued to your posts All this is so much better than any book And I love books Bless you in 2013 Basia ( neighbour) From: Lenarda...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Jan 2, 2013 2:05 am
Hello Tracey It is wonderful isn't it" I am still finding out more and more about my father. Members have been just extraordinarily helpful  and I personally...
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Frances
frncsgts
Jan 2, 2013 5:03 am
Tracey I am so very happy to hear that you are now connected with your father's family. This will be an emotional journey for you - and many of us who have...
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lenardaszymczak
Jan 2, 2013 8:47 am
My apologies, forgot to sign off and noticed that English version looks like blank page, but not, all you need is to scroll down and will see book. Lenarda,...
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J Eddis
joan.eddisto...
Jan 2, 2013 8:48 am
Keep digging, Mark, and surely one day you will unearth more about the circumstances of your grandfather's arrest in Przemysl and his execution/murder. As you...
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annapacewicz
Jan 2, 2013 9:05 am
Hi Beata and for anybody else with an interest/connection to police. The website for the Family Police Association 1939 is: ...
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annapacewicz
Jan 2, 2013 9:11 am
Thanks Mark. I believe that all of these archives are listed in the book Katyn: A crime without punishment edited by Anna Cienciala. It is not a...
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annapacewicz
Jan 2, 2013 9:28 am
Dear group, there are some very good photographs and an article on the opening of the Katyn Bykownia ceremony (September 2012) in the website for the Family...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 2, 2013 10:28 am
Dear Anna, Indeed the material is out there; the problem is to choose the important bits to form some kind of useful narrative. That's the problem historians...
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Barbara Dunleavy
barbaraszcze...
Jan 2, 2013 10:44 am
Hello Tracey, What an amazing and wonderful thing that has happened for you. Â It will, I am sure, be a bit of a roller coaster journey for you mixed with joy...
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antoni530
Jan 2, 2013 10:47 am
Sophea, Happy new Yearto you! Yes, the entry is for Podorozny (Milko) Emilian ref 791/59 792/59 but he did not fill it in fully; so the answer is to write to...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Jan 2, 2013 1:07 pm
"Our Heritage Program" The Forgotten Exiles Polish Museum and Archives in Australia In partnership with Kresy Siberia Foundation Invite you to participate in a...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 2, 2013 1:24 pm
Where do my people fit in, 1937-1938 THE GREAT TERROR. (1ST WAVE OF REPRESSION) ? Lenarda, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 2, 2013 3:16 pm
There sure are some interesting references in the excerpt you shared, Dan. Thank you. It appears "prewar", as in, "prewar Soviet encroachments in Europe," is...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 2, 2013 4:38 pm
Dear Mark Ostrowski, I agree with your comment, "(Although we did have a bit of a polemic re POW status which I really don't want to open up again)". You put...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 2, 2013 4:52 pm
Dear John, If I may leave the POW issue aside for one minute and talk on another point (re your previous post). Whilst I agree that the British may be...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 2, 2013 7:54 pm
Dear John and Mark, So that you don't jump down my throat, I will state right now that I am not a great scholar of history. But, I must defend my dear old G.B....
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 2, 2013 8:36 pm
Dear Basia, Jump down your throat? I really have no interest in bashing my home, the US or for that matter the Soviet Union. There are enough people ready to ...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Jan 2, 2013 9:10 pm
You know, I never noticed that! Of course Mr Weintraub is an American, so perhaps he regards The War as beginning in December 1941? (In much the same fashion,...
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Stefan Jackowski
stejack
Jan 2, 2013 9:12 pm
Dear Mark and group, To add some info re: the situation of the Katyn survivors; According to Prof. Zawodny, of the 15,000 + Polish Officers held in the spring...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 2, 2013 9:28 pm
Dear Mark, I did not mean to blame; I was just joining in your and John's very interesting discussion. I would not wish to offend either of you for the world....
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 2, 2013 10:03 pm
Dear Basia, No offence taken. I have a fairly low opinion of government full stop, and personally do not consider criticism of state policy as a criticism of...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 2, 2013 11:01 pm
Mark, I fully agree with your quote Salomon Tauber: "I bear no hatred nor bitterness towards the German people. Peoples are not evil. Only individuals are...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 2, 2013 11:07 pm
Thanks Anna, great photos to see. Although, I have given up reaching out to that association; seems like they closed their books and my family isnt in it. Mark...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 2, 2013 11:29 pm
Dear Stefan, 448 survivors? Interesting. The usual figure is 395 (also on Wikipedia "395 prisoners were spared from the slaughter,[1] ...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Jan 2, 2013 11:54 pm
That's the name I associate with the survivors. - Dan Ford USn to Gryazovets.^[ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre#cite_note-Miednoje_Katyn-19>...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 3, 2013 12:22 am
Dear Mark and Barbara, First, let me clarify that I was not Brit-bashing or even criticizing the British for the betrayal of Poland. I was deliberately...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 3, 2013 12:41 am
Gryazovets - page 117 free google book http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PZXvUuvfv-oC ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 3, 2013 1:59 am
Military map from 1910 http://www.genealogiapolska.pl/dodane/Europa.php find your village. I found Niwna near Zytomir. Many of these villages, towns no ...
