Dear group Please welcome new member Paul who is researching his wife's family, (Maszczonski) from Rajca, 20km south-east of Nowogrodski Here are the known...
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Eva
eszegidewicz
Jan 18, 2013 9:37 pm
Just a reminder that author/historian Halik Kochanski will be speaking at the National Army Museum in London next week on Thursday 24 January - please see...
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Krystyna Mew
krystynamew
Jan 18, 2013 8:56 pm
An excellent book. Just finished reading it. It helped put all my rather fragmented pieces of Polish WW2 history knowledge into some semblance of...
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Krys Dobrzanski
krysdobrzanski
Jan 18, 2013 8:31 pm
Dear Group, Amazon informed me of a new book called - "The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War" by Halik Kochanski. I believe it will...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 18, 2013 1:00 pm
Beata In a strange way I am bettter off than you. Both yours and my policeman were killed. The edge I have is that mine is named on a list but no body...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 18, 2013 10:37 am
Hi Elzuniu, I have mixed success. I have filled in their forms giving information about my family but they have not come back to me nor have they updated the...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Jan 18, 2013 10:37 am
B ASIA COME TO MELB ON 2 FEB BED WAITING FOR YOU From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Basia Sent: Friday, 18...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 18, 2013 10:22 am
Beata. I suppose good camouflage of Soviets actions, as no papers, no bodies, no evidence, people do not look further. I was told my grandfather drowned while...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Jan 18, 2013 10:20 am
I feel totally exhausted reading this insightful article. My father would have been part of this exodus. This year I plan to fill in more gaps. I need to...
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Beata Hanks
beatahanks
Jan 18, 2013 9:10 am
Hello Mark and Lenarda I too, was told by my father that his father, Jan Nikiel a policeman, who had been arrested from his home in Troszyn, taken to the...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Jan 18, 2013 8:49 am
yes, they do update. I know that Archangelsk is complete but the other areas are not. My dad was in Komi and he is there now, whereas he wasn't a few years...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Jan 18, 2013 5:23 am
707181 Zakrzewski Adam 17.04.1920 plut.pch. / Sgt Pilot brak dalszych...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Jan 18, 2013 5:10 am
http://www.mojawyspa.co.uk/artykuly/29861/8222Im-dluzej-zyje-tym-wiecej-piek na-dostrzegam-wokol Im d³u¿ej ¿yjê, tym wiêcej piêkna dostrzegam wokó³" ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 18, 2013 12:57 am
Hi M.T. Do not remember the tow boat and barges, but something about a river crossing ferry type barge, now I will have to search and find the info, I hate...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 18, 2013 12:23 am
Sorry, I did see the list now. You did provide it before; no grandma! Thanks Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: Elzunia/Elizabeth...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 18, 2013 12:10 am
Elzie, I can't see the list. I am frustrated on that site because I cant read polish and was never able to navigate a purchase of any of their stuff. Contact...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 18, 2013 12:02 am
Hi LS I think you mean the book by Louis Fitzgibbons? (sic)  "The Lost 10,000" The story was that the NKVD used a tow boat to pull two barges out to sea....
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 17, 2013 11:56 pm
Thanks Elizabeth; I will check. I havent found much in the labor camp search. I didnt realize that there were updates. The strange thing about this search is...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 17, 2013 11:21 pm
Mark T. Many years back in my personal research, I did read that one method of disposal of prisoners was to load them all onto a barge, raft, to cross the...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Jan 17, 2013 10:43 pm
Hi Mark I don't remember if I answered your question below and maybe you've already found the information, but just in case you haven't, try ...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 17, 2013 10:20 pm
I was looking through a site that Stan sent me awhile ago 'myaktobe.kz' to look for clues for the labor camp my grandmother was at. Somehow I came across the...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 17, 2013 6:55 pm
Thank you so much Rafal. I can's say this is pleasant reading but it is what I have been asking for. I try to visualize and feel the stories. From your...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Jan 17, 2013 6:47 pm
This is the thesis of Oleg Azarov from Syktyvkar - about SevZelDorLag, 2005 First of all, interest for bibliography. For those, who want to delve into Komi...
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Józef Taran
jozef.taran@...
Jan 17, 2013 6:41 pm
Hello Stan and Rich, It is a great help the monograph about Uchtizhemlag you allowed us to learn, Stan. Thank you very much. Reading some pages (53, 60) there...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Jan 17, 2013 5:29 pm
Dear Richard! Yes, you're right, IÂ find another Kozlowski, perhaps, it is the most common surname in Polska! But I express doubt, that your father was in...
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Józef Taran
jozef.taran@...
Jan 17, 2013 2:40 pm
Hello Rich, It stands quite clear in the letter from the Republic of Komi: prisonner of Uchtizhemlag NKVD, born 1917. By the way the surname Kozlowski is very...
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Richard Kozlowski
r52302
Jan 17, 2013 1:55 pm
Stan and Jósef: My father is not the one that you found, Stan. He was in a camp cutting down trees. I think the person born in 1918 was another Kozlowski....
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rafal_zawadzki
Jan 17, 2013 1:14 pm
Hi Mark! Here you'll find all the profiles (even some photos) of Poles murdered in Kalinin (Tver) and buried in Miednoje: ...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 17, 2013 12:14 pm
Roots Trust have a lot of wonderful pics of Uchta. My father was in Uchtizemlag. Basia (UK) ... Roots Trust have a lot of wonderful pics of Uchta. My father...
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Józef Taran
jozef.taran@...
Jan 17, 2013 11:34 am
There is a lot of photos from Uchtizemlag http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?stype=image...