Thanks, Mark! Do you think we can depend on that? -- Dan Ford US...
54061
Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 3, 2013 7:45 pm
Dear Mark, I have to say yes. The figure of 448 survivors applies to the inmates of Starobielsk, Kozielsk and Ostashkov. Kozielsk =24+ 205 Starobielsk = 22+78 ...
54062
Dan Ford
godanford
Jan 3, 2013 7:53 pm
Were there any officers among the tens of thousands who were released before the German invasion of June 1941? (We know or think we know that some officers...
54063
Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 3, 2013 8:04 pm
Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in! Oh Dan, I do wish you wouldn't ask these questions. You know I'm going to have to spend the next week...
54064
Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 3, 2013 9:17 pm
Is that quote from Paulie Walnuts on the Sopranos? I am sending you a document I trnaslated from IPN, hopefully you have an idea about my conclusions. Mark T....
54065
Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 3, 2013 9:28 pm
ICRC in WW II: Polish prisoners of war in Germany 02-02-2005 Why the ICRC was unable to keep track of Polish POWs captured by German forces. Germany, September...
54066
Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Jan 3, 2013 9:33 pm
Don Vito Corleone... The Godfather... Which is why they used it in the Sopranos. Got the Docs... Will get back when I've had a look. Probably in the morning....
Information taken from - 92d Congress 2d Session - COMMITTEE PRINT COMMUNIST TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR A HISTORICAL 'SURVEY PREPARED FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE...
54070
Eva Szegidewicz
eszegidewicz
Jan 3, 2013 10:41 pm
Dear Group, UK member Frank Pleszak and I attended 99 year old veteran Mr Krolczyk's funeral and burial today. It was a very moving occasion and the church was...
54071
Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Jan 4, 2013 12:27 am
Thanks for sharing...the verse his grandaughter wrote to him  is really special and says everything about him...one should be so lucky.  hania ...
54072
Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 4, 2013 1:07 am
Thats right! In the Sopranos, they were reciting from the Godfather. No hurry, I am going to barrie for the weekend for a hockey tournament. Mark T. Canada ...
54073
Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 4, 2013 1:13 am
Very nice, thank you. RIP, Soldier. Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: Eva Szegidewicz <eszegidewicz@...> To:...
54074
Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 4, 2013 8:37 am
Pan Krolczyk lived with honour and respect and in death he is truly respected and honoured by all for ever now and after. Very nice words, very nice...
54075
Gianluca Vernole
gianluca.ver...
Jan 4, 2013 7:09 pm
Robert Gulewicz is buried in the military cemetery of Polish Casamassima, near Bari, Puglia, Italy, from the data we have is born in Pinsk on 15.03.1906 and...
54076
Gianluca Vernole
gianluca.ver...
Jan 4, 2013 9:05 pm
Dear members, first of all I apologize but I feel the need to make a note that I hope will not be taken to evil. The project People of the Polish Second Corp...
54077
Krystyna Szypowska
szypowska
Jan 4, 2013 9:29 pm
Dear Gianluca, I am sorry that the project appears to have upset you. The project is simply a selection of people who agreed to participate in the exhibit,...
54078
Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 4, 2013 9:35 pm
Gianluca, It is truly remarkable that Polish People, Kresy People in Exile, touched so many other Nations around the Globe. We should slowly put together...
54079
terry
tpolewski
Jan 5, 2013 2:31 am
Group, I wanted to add to the Katyn survivor discussion that about 5 years ago I had been pushed by a Polish aquaintance who, knowing my family history, to...
54080
Andrew Stephen
livinginexile73
Jan 5, 2013 5:25 am
Welcome Rebecca. Good to see a few more Sydneysiders.... // Andrew.Sydney Australia. To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com From: helen.bitner@... Date: Fri,...
54081
Janina Hayden
janinahayden@...
Jan 5, 2013 5:31 am
Hello and welcome Rebecca. I would be interested to hear how time consuming it was to gain Polish citizenship.My brother did it some years ago but took him...
54082
stefan.wisniowski@...
skwisniowski
Jan 5, 2013 5:38 am
Hi Janina This is strictly of topic (not to do with Kresy/Siberia/exiles) but of interest to many members. Each case is unique, and it depends on the quality...
54083
Cub Driver
godanford
Jan 5, 2013 12:09 pm
Fairly common, I think. I got an Irish passport easily some years ago (I was already deemed a citizen though foreign born) but my daughter met endless delays....
54084
Stefan Jackowski
stejack
Jan 5, 2013 1:19 pm
 Hi Terry,   Thanks so much for this .. I was moved beyond words to read it ..  We must remember with our heads, and also our hearts ..    Warm...
54085
Stefan Jackowski
stejack
Jan 5, 2013 1:20 pm
 Dear Mark,  Bravo  .. what a remarkable find.  Maybe the definitive book on Katyn has yet to be written ..   Stefan J    ...
54086
Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 5, 2013 9:51 pm
A new book and new numbers on Katyn Children of the Katyn Massacre Children of the Katyn Massacre In the spring of 1940 the Soviet NKVD murdered around 25,000...
54087
Eva
eszegidewicz
Jan 5, 2013 9:59 pm
Dear Group, There are several books about Katyn listed in our Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum bookstore. In particular Katyn 1940 written by our friend and...
54088
Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Jan 5, 2013 10:06 pm
Happy New Year Gianluca! Please do not despair - there is much work left to be done on the Virtual Museum. In the meantime, your exhibition is here for...
54089
Dan Ford
godanford
Jan 5, 2013 11:34 pm
Note that the numbers listed as shot come out to about 15,000, not the 25,000 cited. That's because in addition to the PWs about 9000 were arrested in December...
