Dear all, another fascinating email from Wanda. We must get this book as we can identify Officers by place of birth (i.e. Kresy). Even though there may be some...
Anna and navy group, I am so excited for all of you, this is a tremendous breakthrough and it proves as the years go by, more and more information will be...
Thanks Stan. This is wild to imagine. I had read that anybody from Pilduski's legions were included on the first NKWD arrest lists. I wonder if anybody that...
Hi Anna My father does have various medals, including the Virtuti Militari. My brother in the UK has all of them together, with a couple of the citations. The...
Hi Karen, How wonderful for you! But really I cannot make sense of this book. I will scan the pages shortly and send them to you / post them. There are 52...
I need some help for my son who is in grade 2 with some facts that he could use about Poland. If this is not allowed in this group I would appreciate responses...
Dear group, I am trying to find out more information about the evacuation of Polish Airforce and Polish Navy personnel from the USSR on the 24th March 1942...
Hello Anna Thank you for attempting to get more information for me from Wanda Troman. She sounds as if she has done very extensive research on the Polish Navy....
Dear group Please welcome Gordon who would very much like help to find out more about his mother Stanislawa Szczech from Stanislawowka. Gordon says that she...
I've never seen that name given to it! Nor do I really recall that sailors and airmen were privileged for evacuation. Very interesting. -- Dan Ford US...
I have always loved the term "the country on rollerskates" when it was moved 125/150 miles west. I heard it when I was a boy in the 1940s/1950s, I am pretty...
Karen, I recall being unable to find anything to help you last year with my limited resources. It is very nice to see your development, I had a similar...
Helen, It is virtually impossible to find full details with so little information available; perhaps Gordon can let us know Dobs and patronymic details of his...
Hello Antoni I hope you are well. I have given you all the information that Gordon gave me so I hope he can fill in some more details. Kind regards Helen...
Antoni and Gordon - Yes, Antoni, Stanislawowka was a small village in Lwowskie woj (and pow. Sokal). Gordon, welcome to the group. My father's family was...
Yes, Basia, they were in Czurga with your relatives. I have full base, completed from Polish and Russian courses. It was 4 big relative families - 17 people,...
Thanks for the response. I know that the navy were. For example this is from the National Archives: War Cabinet - Organisation of allied naval army and air...
Gordon welcome to group, can you give us some more details about your mother Stanislawa, such as date of birth, is Szczech her maiden name, brother or...
Antoni, Slanislawowka is sideways from Lwow going to Rowne in the direction of Kiev, but there are one or two villages/towns by that name around Luck/Lwow. ...
This was one of my first really good books when I started researching my dads journey. hania...
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Attached is the monthly News letter we receive from Polish Association, in South Africa. On page 19 of this news letter is the shortened diary of my mothers...
Dear group Please welcome new member Ryszard whose mother's family name was Rytwinski. Ryszard's grandfather, Stefan, was imprisoned and his grandmother with...
Welcome to group Ryszard, all of my mothers relatives, except for immediate family were deported to Kazakhstan 1936 onwards, From Zhitomirski Oblast, you will...
Hi Anna You are digging out much information that is relevant to my late father's experience. I know that he was in Palestine. He was shipped to the UK via...
Please welcome Julia to the group. She is at present writing about the deportation of Poles in the Forties and their evacuation to Africa and India and hopes...
Julia welcome to group, you will find a wealth of information within the Kresy-Siberia Group. Lenarda, Sydney, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
Dan, Like you I have never heard of 'Operation Scrivener'; Scrivener, as you know, is a modern term relating to software manufacture for modern computers and...
I also have never heard of Operation Scrivener apart from the mention in Mr. Wojcik's book "Polish Spirit". (The word scrivener is a Middle English synonym for...
