Hi Martin This is a great idea. My late father, like yours and Anna's, served in the Polish navy. After signing up in Tockoje (23/9/1941) & serving with the...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 1, 2013 1:00 am
Dear group and administrators, I think this is amazing feat and shows much work and research, well done, it is a pleasure to travel through and learn ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 1, 2013 12:29 am
Mark, no smut involved, even if you do not understand Polish, know it to be a simple play on words, it was normal and still is for Polish people to be humorous...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Jan 31, 2013 11:56 pm
News Polish Genetic Database of Victims of Totalitarianism Hi Folks, Wish I could get in on the smutty humor but I dont speak Polish. Only familiar term to me...
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Richard Kozlowski
r52302
Jan 31, 2013 11:20 pm
This is some great stuff, I am compelled to jump in. I remember all of it--niech cie szlak trafi, cholera jasna (always thrown around the house); z kur** syn...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 31, 2013 10:47 pm
Rys, how language differs from house to house and Google is an innocent child. "Szlak trafi"- I asked my mother about this ( last year 2012)and Szlak was a ...
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annapacewicz
Jan 31, 2013 9:43 pm
Dear group, Our friend and Sydney Members Grazyna and Janusz Tydda very kindly scanned the poetry book of Siberak Leokadia Ogrodnik. Pani Leokadia is very...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 31, 2013 8:07 pm
Rys, you're researches are very impressive. As to your last sentence, it's good to see your family has things in the right perspective..... Basia (UK) ... Rys,...
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ryszardsys
Jan 31, 2013 7:57 pm
Today I received some more information tying my branch of the Sys name with the dozens in Belarus and Lithuania. It was from a very old cousin of mine who...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 31, 2013 7:13 pm
Hello Rys, Mac (Match) is very old Polish - Polish and Russian have a common root and it's fascinating when you study old Polish. So we lost it, and they kept...
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ryszardsys
Jan 31, 2013 7:08 pm
Well this has certainly stirred up the essence of what we (or our parents) were. I hear the word "mac" (or "match" phonetically) used widely now with "Kor**" -...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Jan 31, 2013 6:51 pm
The ones I heard were "psia jego mac" (the c=ch in this case) which means " a dog's his mother", "czort" = "devil", "psia kosc/krew" = dog's bone/blood",...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Jan 31, 2013 6:39 pm
I remember as a kid, friends of my parents.....women in particular who were like the baba in the video. I loved those women and how confidently they expressed...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 31, 2013 5:45 pm
What an interesting thread! I hope some of our older more distinguished members are not too shy to contribute. Even if you never used such expressions...
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ryszardsys
Jan 31, 2013 1:51 pm
I wonder if anyone else has picked this up in the news today, but it now official. Polish is the second most spoken language in the UK thanks to the wave of...
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ryszardsys
Jan 31, 2013 1:48 pm
Zenon, I remember dziadek using the term "szlak jasny trafi". This has inspired me to google translate it and it simply means "the trail will clear". I...
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annapacewicz
Jan 31, 2013 11:39 am
Martin, that is a superb idea. My Dad was also in the Navy (I'm sure we have corresponded on this previously). He enlisted in Tockoje and by August 1942 was in...
Congratulations Stefan. Very well spoken Basia From: <stefan.wisniowski@...> Reply-To: <Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 31, 2013 9:27 am
Stefan, congratulations, great interview, I agree with what Elzunia has said, you made an impossible dream come true.\ Lenarda, Australia From:...
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martin stepek
martinstepek
Jan 31, 2013 9:02 am
Lucyna The Polish Navy was very small. Only 4,500. I know this because I have about a dozen to twenty photos of my father and naval friends and colleagues,...
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Zenon Kuzik
zenon.kuzik
Jan 31, 2013 7:41 am
Dear Rysiu, Among the Polish community here in NZ, I remember hearing one of my Ciocias (not my actual aunt, you understand, but a term of endearment for a...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Jan 31, 2013 5:18 am
Does anyone have the numbers in each of the polish armed forces I know airforce was 17500 What about navy, 2nd corpus,. Carpathian brigade and parachustists ...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Jan 31, 2013 3:33 am
Wow I must certainly compliment you as well Stefan.....Your Polish is much easier and cleaner  to understand than the interviewer's. I understand now,...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Jan 30, 2013 11:46 pm
I agree, well-done Stefan! your fluency and accent are impressive and have improved so much since the earlier interviews. But then we know that you are such a...
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Carol Dove
stashaok
Jan 30, 2013 9:20 pm
Hello Group, Wanted to say to John, Well said. Carol Dove Connecticut, USA ________________________________ From: Stanislaw Zwierzynski...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Jan 30, 2013 8:16 pm
Stan and John, this is very sad, because the Polish people that perished, my extended family, including my grandfather taken by NKVD 1937, who was in Czar...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Jan 30, 2013 6:27 pm
Dear John, Yes, I almost agree with you! Just do not now see in Russian enemies of civilization. Many of the facts revealed in the last time. Sometimes I get...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 30, 2013 6:03 pm
Magnificent, Stefan! Congratulations - I bet "w Szczebrzeszynie chrzÄ…szcz brzmi w trzcinie" is easy for you to say. One thing that might catch the ear of...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Jan 30, 2013 5:37 pm
The many excellent posts on this topic have persuaded me that one's ethnicity is a matter of personal choice, sort of "ethnicity is where the heart is."...
