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...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 6, 2013 11:04 am
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...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 6, 2013 11:07 am
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...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Feb 6, 2013 12:35 pm
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...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Feb 6, 2013 1:47 pm
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antoni530
Feb 6, 2013 3:11 pm
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...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Feb 6, 2013 3:40 pm
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...
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Basia Glinski
bglinski
Feb 6, 2013 6:16 pm
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...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Feb 6, 2013 6:45 pm
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,...
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annapacewicz
Feb 6, 2013 8:51 pm
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...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 6, 2013 9:52 pm
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...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 6, 2013 10:18 pm
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. ...
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kazameena
Feb 7, 2013 2:16 am
This was one of my first really good books when I started researching my dads journey. hania...
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Basia
basiag@...
Feb 7, 2013 6:36 am
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...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Feb 7, 2013 8:34 am
Dear group Please welcome new member Ryszard whose mother's family name was Rytwinski. Ryszard's grandfather, Stefan, was imprisoned and his grandmother with...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 7, 2013 8:53 am
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...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Feb 7, 2013 2:08 pm
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...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 7, 2013 9:17 pm
Julia welcome to group, you will find a wealth of information within the Kresy-Siberia Group. Lenarda, Sydney, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
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Antoni Kazimierski
antoni530
Feb 7, 2013 10:14 pm
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...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Feb 7, 2013 10:37 pm
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...
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Robert
helpsln
Feb 7, 2013 10:38 pm
Dear Anna In all of my readings so far I have never come across the use of the term Operation Scrivener (Scrivner) in relation to the transport by ships of...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Feb 7, 2013 10:47 pm
My father was also transported to the UK through South Africa, spending an extended period of "fattening up" there in the summer of 1942. He arrived in...
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Robert
helpsln
Feb 7, 2013 10:53 pm
Dear Martin I suspect that I may be entering this conversation rather late. Rather than only photographs why not include details of the military record of the...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Feb 7, 2013 11:05 pm
Google shows, "This man was struck by what he heard and took Farran to see Peter Scrivener, the minister." on Page 105 of "Major Farran's Hat: The Untold Story...
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szypowska
Feb 7, 2013 11:31 pm
Dear Robert, The Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum is set up in such a way that when you upload photos or documents to a family Collection in the Hall of Memories,...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Feb 7, 2013 11:55 pm
A "scrivener" was a clerk who wrote out texts. See Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener"....
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annapacewicz
Feb 8, 2013 12:12 am
Dear Antoni Thank you so much for the reply. May I ask you what the Navies in Exile book is that you referred to? I would love to source a copy. I hadn't heard...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 8, 2013 12:56 am
Links to more information about Polish Navy WWII. My Sources for <http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&sqi=2&ved ...
