O'Malleys report notes that around 180,000 Poles were taken prisoner by the
Soviets after Sept 1939 and the 15,000 Officers of "Katyn" include around 6,000
Police. O'Malley says that the report focuses on the Army officers only because
of "the need of officers to command the Polish troops recruited in Russia". He
goes onto say that he does not suppose that the police/civilians/other POWs had
a fate any different to the Officers.

In 1943 the Germans only uncovered the Katyn forest grave containing the
approximately 4,400 bodies of Army Officers from the special camp at Kozelsk. At
that point the other "Katyn" burial sites had not been uncovered.

It was only in 1990 with Gorbachev's disclosure that the Ukraine and Belarus
list "civilian" prisoners were concretely linked to "Katyn" due to the order of
the 5th March from the Politburo and the continual numerical listing from victim
1 to 21,857.

Although the world knew about Katyn from 1943 I think that perhaps it was
assumed that the victims were only army officers? Growing up, I only knew that
my grandfather had been a policeman, had been arrested and deported by the
Soviets and then "disappeared". It was not until 1990 and the disclosure of the
Katyn Ukraine List that we actually knew that he had been killed in the Katyn
massacres.

Kind regards
Anna Pacewicz
Sydney


--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
>
> ...especially hard to read if one of the men could have been yours.
> The horror of the guys who did not have their coats pulled over their heads
and looked into the pit makes my blood boil.
> Do you think it odd that our guys from list 4 and 5 do not seem to be missed
at the time of these reports? Do you think they may actually have been at one of
the big 3 camps at some time and moved to their previously undiscovered
destination?
> I dont think we will ever find out much detail since those witnesses are
probably all gone.
>  
>
> Mark T.
> Canada
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: annapacewicz
> To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:00:01 PM
> Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
>
>
>  
>
> Thank you Mark. O'Malley's report is a must read. Churchill's opening words to
Roosevelt say it all:
>
> "(this is)a grim, well-written story, but perhaps a little too well-written."
>
> And O'Malley's closing words are haunting:
>
> "and so, lf the facts ·aoout the Katyn massacre turn out to be as most of us
incline to think, shall we vindicate the spirit of these brave unlucky men and
justify the living to the dead. ·
> I have, &c. .
> OWEN O'MALLEY"
>
> By the way, Paul Allen's book "Katyn" gives a very good account of the efforts
to suppress Katyn and the documentation in the US.
>
> Kind regards
> Anna Pacewicz
> Sydney
>
> --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> >
> >  Letter from Winston to Roosevelt
> >
> > Mark T.
> > Canada
> >
> >
> >
> >           WSC_to_FDR_8-13-43ChurchilltoRoosevelt.pdf
> > 18 MB
> >           Your file(s) will expire in 30 days
> >    
> > Powered by YouSendIt - The simple way to send large files within Yahoo!
Mail. Try it!
> >
>

Dear Group,
A thrilling spy story set in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin in the years
leading up to the Second World War will be shown on BBC4 tomorrow, Wednesday at
9 pm.
The film was directed by our friend and contact Coky Giedroyc (daughter of
Siberian survivor Michal Giedroyc and sister of Mel Giedroyc TV
presenter/actress).
David Tennant plays a French military attaché who was a decorated war hero of
the 1914 war.
For more details please see -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/spiesofwarsaw/
Best regards.
Eva Szegidewicz
Director, Kresy-Siberia (UK)

 

O'Malleys report notes that around 180,000 Poles were taken prisoner by the Soviets after Sept 1939 and the 15,000 Officers of "Katyn" include around 6,000 Police. O'Malley says that the report focuses on the Army officers only because of "the need of officers to command the Polish troops recruited in Russia". He goes onto say that he does not suppose that the police/civilians/other POWs had a fate any different to the Officers.

In 1943 the Germans only uncovered the Katyn forest grave containing the approximately 4,400 bodies of Army Officers from the special camp at Kozelsk. At that point the other "Katyn" burial sites had not been uncovered.

It was only in 1990 with Gorbachev's disclosure that the Ukraine and Belarus list "civilian" prisoners were concretely linked to "Katyn" due to the order of the 5th March from the Politburo and the continual numerical listing from victim 1 to 21,857.

Although the world knew about Katyn from 1943 I think that perhaps it was assumed that the victims were only army officers? Growing up, I only knew that my grandfather had been a policeman, had been arrested and deported by the Soviets and then "disappeared". It was not until 1990 and the disclosure of the Katyn Ukraine List that we actually knew that he had been killed in the Katyn massacres.

Kind regards
Anna Pacewicz
Sydney

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, Mark wrote:
>
> ...especially hard to read if one of the men could have been yours.
> The horror of the guys who did not have their coats pulled over their heads and looked into the pit makes my blood boil.
> Do you think it odd that our guys from list 4 and 5 do not seem to be missed at the time of these reports? Do you think they may actually have been at one of the big 3 camps at some time and moved to their previously undiscovered destination?
> I dont think we will ever find out much detail since those witnesses are probably all gone.
>  
>
> Mark T.
> Canada
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: annapacewicz
> To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:00:01 PM
> Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley report
>
>
>  
>
> Thank you Mark. O'Malley's report is a must read. Churchill's opening words to Roosevelt say it all:
>
> "(this is)a grim, well-written story, but perhaps a little too well-written."
>
> And O'Malley's closing words are haunting:
>
> "and so, lf the facts ·aoout the Katyn massacre turn out to be as most of us incline to think, shall we vindicate the spirit of these brave unlucky men and justify the living to the dead. ·
> I have, &c. .
> OWEN O'MALLEY"
>
> By the way, Paul Allen's book "Katyn" gives a very good account of the efforts to suppress Katyn and the documentation in the US.
>
> Kind regards
> Anna Pacewicz
> Sydney
>
> --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark wrote:
> >
> >  Letter from Winston to Roosevelt
> >
> > Mark T.
> > Canada
> >
> >
> >
> > WSC_to_FDR_8-13-43ChurchilltoRoosevelt.pdf
> > 18 MB
> > Your file(s) will expire in 30 days
> >  
> > Powered by YouSendIt - The simple way to send large files within Yahoo! Mail. Try it!
> >
>

Hi Mark, I know from my grandfather's file that he was deported from the prison
in Rowne on the 28th March straight to Kiev. The general information I have is:

It has been harder to piece together the fate of the 7,305 executed prisoners
who were held in prisons created by the NKVD in various places in Eastern
Poland, such as Pinsk, Luck, Rowno, Lwow : 3,435 prisoners from prisons in
so-called "Western Ukraine" were deported to prisons in Kiev, Kharkov and
Kherson. There they were executed and buried in a mass grave in Bykownia, near
Kiev. Finally 3,870 prisoners from prisons in the so-called Western Belorus were
deported to prisons in Minsk. Their bodies have never been found.

Separate to that, there were 6,000 or so policemen included in the POW's of the
3 special camps. They were held in Ostashkov camp . The 6,291 prisoners here
were largely policemen, gendarmes and KOPs. These prisoners from Ostashkov camp
were executed in the basement of Kalinin prison, their bodies buried in trenches
in Mednoye, near Tver.

However, in addition there were thousands of policemen who were held as
"civilian prisoners" in "Western Ukraine" and "Western Belarus" (Soviet terms
for Borderlands) prisons and deported to prisons in Kiev, Kharkov and Kherson in
addition to Minsk. i.e. My grandfather. I also met the relatives of several
policemen when I went to the Bykownia ceremony in Sept. I don't know how many
policemen were part of this 7,000 or so of the Ukraine and Belarus list.

I also don't know why the 6,000 or so policemen at Ostashkov were held at that
special camp as "POWs" versus the thousands of policemen from the civilian
prisons of "Western Ukraine" and "Western Belarus". Perhaps it was a matter of
rank. My own grandfather was a Constable. Perhaps only the Officers were held as
POWs at Ostashkov. But anyway, I'm still not sure how that would account for the
difference between "POW" and "civilian prisoner".

Kind regards,

Anna Pacewicz
Sydney

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
>
> Yes right, Anna.
> From reading that, I surmised that our policemen could have been in the
Ostashkow camp and when the disposition was being organized they were scheduled
and taken to the jail in Kiev. Being in the overall group marked for death, they
could have been routed to any of the murder sites.
>
> Mark T.
> Canada
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: annapacewicz
> To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:28:33 PM
> Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
>
>
>  
>
> O'Malleys report notes that around 180,000 Poles were taken prisoner by the
Soviets after Sept 1939 and the 15,000 Officers of "Katyn" include around 6,000
Police. O'Malley says that the report focuses on the Army officers only because
of "the need of officers to command the Polish troops recruited in Russia". He
goes onto say that he does not suppose that the police/civilians/other POWs had
a fate any different to the Officers.
>
> In 1943 the Germans only uncovered the Katyn forest grave containing the
approximately 4,400 bodies of Army Officers from the special camp at Kozelsk. At
that point the other "Katyn" burial sites had not been uncovered.
>
> It was only in 1990 with Gorbachev's disclosure that the Ukraine and Belarus
list "civilian" prisoners were concretely linked to "Katyn" due to the order of
the 5th March from the Politburo and the continual numerical listing from victim
1 to 21,857.
>
> Although the world knew about Katyn from 1943 I think that perhaps it was
assumed that the victims were only army officers? Growing up, I only knew that
my grandfather had been a policeman, had been arrested and deported by the
Soviets and then "disappeared". It was not until 1990 and the disclosure of the
Katyn Ukraine List that we actually knew that he had been killed in the Katyn
massacres.
>
> Kind regards
> Anna Pacewicz
> Sydney
>
> --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> >
> > ...especially hard to read if one of the men could have been yours.
> > The horror of the guys who did not have their coats pulled over their
heads and looked into the pit makes my blood boil.
> > Do you think it odd that our guys from list 4 and 5 do not seem to be
missed at the time of these reports? Do you think they may actually have been at
one of the big 3 camps at some time and moved to their previously undiscovered
destination?
> > I dont think we will ever find out much detail since those witnesses are
probably all gone.
> >  
> >
> > Mark T.
> > Canada
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  From: annapacewicz
> > To: mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:00:01 PM
> > Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > Thank you Mark. O'Malley's report is a must read. Churchill's opening words
to Roosevelt say it all:
> >
> > "(this is)a grim, well-written story, but perhaps a little too
well-written."
> >
> > And O'Malley's closing words are haunting:
> >
> > "and so, lf the facts ·aoout the Katyn massacre turn out to be as most of
us incline to think, shall we vindicate the spirit of these brave unlucky men
and justify the living to the dead. ·
> > I have, &c. .
> > OWEN O'MALLEY"
> >
> > By the way, Paul Allen's book "Katyn" gives a very good account of the
efforts to suppress Katyn and the documentation in the US.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Anna Pacewicz
> > Sydney
> >
> > --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> > >
> > >  Letter from Winston to Roosevelt
> > >
> > > Mark T.
> > > Canada
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >           WSC_to_FDR_8-13-43ChurchilltoRoosevelt.pdf
> > > 18 MB
> > >           Your file(s) will expire in 30 days
> > >    
> > > Powered by YouSendIt - The simple way to send large files within Yahoo!
Mail. Try it!
> > >
> >
>

Dear Group
Please welcome new member Rafal who is researching for his aunt Krystyna
Zawadzka  born in Kovel (former Poland, now Ukraine) on 15th of Feb 1937. She
was a daughter of Stefan and Rozalia. Stefan was a brother of Rafal's
grandfather and he was a State Policeman, arrested by the  Soviet NKWD in Sept
1939, then imprisoned in Ostaschkov lager and finally murdered at the end of
April 1940 in Tver (USSR). His body is buried in a massive grave together with 
more than 6,000 other bodies of Polish policemen, prison guards, clerks etc. in
Miednoye (now Russia).

Rafal's family know about Stefan's fate due to some documents released by Russia
some years ago, but  they don't have any information about his wife Rozalia and
their daughter Krystyna, with whom the contact was broken about 1939/1940. It
was thought, they were taken to Siberia like other members of policemen's
families and probably lost there.

Two days ago Rafal received from the Polish Red Cross information that a
Krystyna Zawadzka born 1937, a Polish orphan, arrived in Canada in 1949. and
eventually settled   in the United Kingdom. Rafal thinks this is perhaps another
Krystyna Zawadzka  because she was born in 1937?  However if there is any
probability that she is their family member who was lost 70 years ago the
Zawadzki family would be overjoyed.

Rafal, we do have a Krystyna Zawadzka on our Wall Of Names in the Kresy-Siberia
Virtual Museum but there is little information other than she was a refugee in
India and born in 1937.
My very best wishes for  success in your researches
Kind regards
Helen Bitner
Colchester
UK

 

Dear Group
Please welcome new member Rafal who is researching for his aunt Krystyna Zawadzka born in Kovel (former Poland, now Ukraine) on 15th of Feb 1937. She was a daughter of Stefan and Rozalia. Stefan was a brother of Rafal's grandfather and he was a State Policeman, arrested by the Soviet NKWD in Sept 1939, then imprisoned in Ostaschkov lager and finally murdered at the end of April 1940 in Tver (USSR). His body is buried in a massive grave together with more than 6,000 other bodies of Polish policemen, prison guards, clerks etc. in Miednoye (now Russia).

Rafal's family know about Stefan's fate due to some documents released by Russia some years ago, but they don't have any information about his wife Rozalia and their daughter Krystyna, with whom the contact was broken about 1939/1940. It was thought, they were taken to Siberia like other members of policemen's families and probably lost there.

Two days ago Rafal received from the Polish Red Cross information that a Krystyna Zawadzka born 1937, a Polish orphan, arrived in Canada in 1949. and eventually settled in the United Kingdom. Rafal thinks this is perhaps another Krystyna Zawadzka because she was born in 1937? However if there is any probability that she is their family member who was lost 70 years ago the Zawadzki family would be overjoyed.

Rafal, we do have a Krystyna Zawadzka on our Wall Of Names in the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum but there is little information other than she was a refugee in India and born in 1937.
My very best wishes for success in your researches
Kind regards
Helen Bitner
Colchester
UK

----- Original Message -----

From: Frances

To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 9:54 PM

Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: Introducing new member Rafal Zawadzki from Lbiska, Poland

 

Hello Rafal

A warm welcome to the group.
Please refer to message 28714 - it contains a list of those orphans from Siberia/Kazakhstan who spent time in the Polish refugee camp in Tengeru, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) who were sent to Canada.  There is a Krystyna Zawadzka on this list, which may be your aunt.

There is a message board on the link below, it may be helpful.

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.africa.kenya.general/29.2.2.1/mb.ashx

Good luck with your search

Frances
 


--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, Helen Bitner wrote:
>
> Dear Group
> Please welcome new member Rafal who is researching for his aunt Krystyna Zawadzka born in Kovel (former Poland, now Ukraine) on 15th of Feb 1937. She was a daughter of Stefan and Rozalia. Stefan was a brother of Rafal's grandfather and he was a State Policeman, arrested by the Soviet NKWD in Sept 1939, then imprisoned in Ostaschkov lager and finally murdered at the end of April 1940 in Tver (USSR). His body is buried in a massive grave together with more than 6,000 other bodies of Polish policemen, prison guards, clerks etc. in Miednoye (now Russia).
>
> Rafal's family know about Stefan's fate due to some documents released by Russia some years ago, but they don't have any information about his wife Rozalia and their daughter Krystyna, with whom the contact was broken about 1939/1940. It was thought, they were taken to Siberia like other members of policemen's families and probably lost there.
>
> Two days ago Rafal received from the Polish Red Cross information that a Krystyna Zawadzka born 1937, a Polish orphan, arrived in Canada in 1949. and eventually settled in the United Kingdom. Rafal thinks this is perhaps another Krystyna Zawadzka because she was born in 1937? However if there is any probability that she is their family member who was lost 70 years ago the Zawadzki family would be overjoyed.
>
> Rafal, we do have a Krystyna Zawadzka on our Wall Of Names in the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum but there is little information other than she was a refugee in India and born in 1937.
> My very best wishes for success in your researches
> Kind regards
> Helen Bitner
> Colchester
> UK
>

Yes understand Mark. There is so little information on the 7,000 Ukraine and
Belarus List victims versus the 3 special camps. I think that the NKVD archives
were destroyed or have been buried by the Soviets. If it is any small
consolation Minister Kunert at the Bykownia ceremony made a very moving speech
(and was himself moved close to tears) saying that Poland has waited 70 years to
bury these vicitms and that they had never been forgotten.

I too would like to know more so will just keep plugging away.

This is your grandfather?

http://www.katedrapolowa.pl/tabliczka.php?imie1=Franciszek&nazwisko=TURKIEWICZ&s\
topien=przodownik&id=17541&num=7

But most importantly you have not forgotten him. I hope they are looking down on
us and know that.

Best regards,
Anna Pacewicz
Sydney Australia

--- In Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
>
> Thanks Anna. You have always shared good info with me.
> I am a hammerhead. My grandfather was a sergeant of State Police, head of
criminal investigations in Przemysl. I dont know wht that means in terms of
officer or civilian status.
> I thought I closed the file with Bykownia but now I am skeptical again. I only
want to travel his fate for him so someone noticed his horror and sacrifice.
Right now, he seems unknown and I hate it. Police Family Assoc want to know
nothing about him, UKR victims have little documentation.
> I cant find anything except that he was killed. Just venting, thanks.
>
> Mark T.
> Canada
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: annapacewicz
> To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 8:35:11 PM
> Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
>
>
>  
>
> Hi Mark, I know from my grandfather's file that he was deported from the
prison in Rowne on the 28th March straight to Kiev. The general information I
have is:
>
> It has been harder to piece together the fate of the 7,305 executed prisoners
who were held in prisons created by the NKVD in various places in Eastern
Poland, such as Pinsk, Luck, Rowno, Lwow : 3,435 prisoners from prisons in
so-called "Western Ukraine" were deported to prisons in Kiev, Kharkov and
Kherson. There they were executed and buried in a mass grave in Bykownia, near
Kiev. Finally 3,870 prisoners from prisons in the so-called Western Belorus were
deported to prisons in Minsk. Their bodies have never been found.
>
> Separate to that, there were 6,000 or so policemen included in the POW's of
the 3 special camps. They were held in Ostashkov camp . The 6,291 prisoners here
were largely policemen, gendarmes and KOPs. These prisoners from Ostashkov camp
were executed in the basement of Kalinin prison, their bodies buried in trenches
in Mednoye, near Tver.
>
> However, in addition there were thousands of policemen who were held as
"civilian prisoners" in "Western Ukraine" and "Western Belarus" (Soviet terms
for Borderlands) prisons and deported to prisons in Kiev, Kharkov and Kherson in
addition to Minsk. i.e. My grandfather. I also met the relatives of several
policemen when I went to the Bykownia ceremony in Sept. I don't know how many
policemen were part of this 7,000 or so of the Ukraine and Belarus list.
>
> I also don't know why the 6,000 or so policemen at Ostashkov were held at that
special camp as "POWs" versus the thousands of policemen from the civilian
prisons of "Western Ukraine" and "Western Belarus". Perhaps it was a matter of
rank. My own grandfather was a Constable. Perhaps only the Officers were held as
POWs at Ostashkov. But anyway, I'm still not sure how that would account for the
difference between "POW" and "civilian prisoner".
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anna Pacewicz
> Sydney
>
> --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> >
> > Yes right, Anna.
> > From reading that, I surmised that our policemen could have been in the
Ostashkow camp and when the disposition was being organized they were scheduled
and taken to the jail in Kiev. Being in the overall group marked for death, they
could have been routed to any of the murder sites.
> >
> > Mark T.
> > Canada
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  From: annapacewicz
> > To: mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:28:33 PM
> > Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > O'Malleys report notes that around 180,000 Poles were taken prisoner by the
Soviets after Sept 1939 and the 15,000 Officers of "Katyn" include around 6,000
Police. O'Malley says that the report focuses on the Army officers only because
of "the need of officers to command the Polish troops recruited in Russia". He
goes onto say that he does not suppose that the police/civilians/other POWs had
a fate any different to the Officers.
> >
> > In 1943 the Germans only uncovered the Katyn forest grave containing the
approximately 4,400 bodies of Army Officers from the special camp at Kozelsk. At
that point the other "Katyn" burial sites had not been uncovered.
> >
> > It was only in 1990 with Gorbachev's disclosure that the Ukraine and Belarus
list "civilian" prisoners were concretely linked to "Katyn" due to the order of
the 5th March from the Politburo and the continual numerical listing from victim
1 to 21,857.
> >
> > Although the world knew about Katyn from 1943 I think that perhaps it was
assumed that the victims were only army officers? Growing up, I only knew that
my grandfather had been a policeman, had been arrested and deported by the
Soviets and then "disappeared". It was not until 1990 and the disclosure of the
Katyn Ukraine List that we actually knew that he had been killed in the Katyn
massacres.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Anna Pacewicz
> > Sydney
> >
> > --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> > >
> > > ...especially hard to read if one of the men could have been
yours.
> > > The horror of the guys who did not have their coats pulled over
their heads and looked into the pit makes my blood boil.
> > > Do you think it odd that our guys from list 4 and 5 do not
seem to be missed at the time of these reports? Do you think they may actually
have been at one of the big 3 camps at some time and moved to their previously
undiscovered destination?
> > > I dont think we will ever find out much detail since those witnesses are
probably all gone.
> > >  
> > >
> > > Mark T.
> > > Canada
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >  From: annapacewicz
> > > To: mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:00:01 PM
> > > Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Re: US files - Winston to FDR - Omalley
report
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Thank you Mark. O'Malley's report is a must read. Churchill's opening
words to Roosevelt say it all:
> > >
> > > "(this is)a grim, well-written story, but perhaps a little too
well-written."
> > >
> > > And O'Malley's closing words are haunting:
> > >
> > > "and so, lf the facts ·aoout the Katyn massacre turn out to be as
most of us incline to think, shall we vindicate the spirit of these brave
unlucky men and justify the living to the dead. ·
> > > I have, &c. .
> > > OWEN O'MALLEY"
> > >
> > > By the way, Paul Allen's book "Katyn" gives a very good account of the
efforts to suppress Katyn and the documentation in the US.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Anna Pacewicz
> > > Sydney
> > >
> > > --- In mailto:Kresy-Siberia%40yahoogroups.com, Mark  wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Letter from Winston to Roosevelt
> > > >
> > > > Mark T.
> > > > Canada
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >           WSC_to_FDR_8-13-43ChurchilltoRoosevelt.pdf
> > > > 18 MB
> > > >           Your file(s) will expire in 30 days
> > > >    
> > > > Powered by YouSendIt - The simple way to send large files within Yahoo!
Mail. Try it!
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

----- Original Message -----

From: Helen Bitner

To: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:50 AM

Subject: [www.Kresy-Siberia.org] Introducing new member Rafal Zawadzki from Lbiska, Poland

 

Dear Group
Please welcome new member Rafal who is researching for his aunt Krystyna Zawadzka born in Kovel (former Poland, now Ukraine) on 15th of Feb 1937. She was a daughter of Stefan and Rozalia. Stefan was a brother of Rafal's grandfather and he was a State Policeman, arrested by the Soviet NKWD in Sept 1939, then imprisoned in Ostaschkov lager and finally murdered at the end of April 1940 in Tver (USSR). His body is buried in a massive grave together with more than 6,000 other bodies of Polish policemen, prison guards, clerks etc. in Miednoye (now Russia).

Rafal's family know about Stefan's fate due to some documents released by Russia some years ago, but they don't have any information about his wife Rozalia and their daughter Krystyna, with whom the contact was broken about 1939/1940. It was thought, they were taken to Siberia like other members of policemen's families and probably lost there.

Two days ago Rafal received from the Polish Red Cross information that a Krystyna Zawadzka born 1937, a Polish orphan, arrived in Canada in 1949. and eventually settled in the United Kingdom. Rafal thinks this is perhaps another Krystyna Zawadzka because she was born in 1937? However if there is any probability that she is their family member who was lost 70 years ago the Zawadzki family would be overjoyed.

Rafal, we do have a Krystyna Zawadzka on our Wall Of Names in the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum but there is little information other than she was a refugee in India and born in 1937.
My very best wishes for success in your researches
Kind regards
Helen Bitner
Colchester
UK