Hi! I would like to share some information on my Polish family. My grandfather Tadeusz Buczak (1922-2004) was sent to Siberia in 1939 and forced to cut down...
Thanks for your kind words about my blog Helen. I shared it because I think many members would find it both enjoyable and emotionally enriching to have a focus...
It’s been sometime since I last looked through my blog about Dad and his family in Siberia and Persia. In total it has five pages totalling over thirty...
Hi Richard, Welcome to the group, we have a lot of very knowledgeable members who I am sure will be able to help you in your search. I've made an attempt and ...
Dear all,  On Thursday 21st February Dr Monika Janowski will give what is likely to be a very interesting talk on "Women, Foodways and 'Polishness' during a...
Dear All This may seem an odd request from South Africa. Discussing with colleagues the tropical diseases, malaria, yellow fever, etc, found in countries such...
Hi group I found this on my files, do not remember document being sent to group EMBASSY OF TH... E UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Moscow, February 23, 1944 Subject:...
Dear Group Please welcome new member Richard. His request for details was posted earlier this month as Lenarda will remember. He is trying to organise a trip...
Dear Group, The ISP provider for New Zealand (Yahoo/Xtra) has had a spam attack and has sent out spam using people’s address books. You may have received...
February 10th....Remembering, as I light my candle. The Light of the Candle A cold, frosty window against the darkness of the night A lonely candle burns with...
Hello to you all. I want to start the tracing of my father's family. I have my grandparents names and the family home address in Wilno as provided by the...
Thanks as ever Hania for your lovely poems of remembrance, love and loss. In reply here is the poem I wrote when I tried to put myself into Dad’s shoes in...
A little information about Zaludek and geo co-ordinates Zaludok/Zheloudek/Zheludok/Zholodek/Zholudok/Zoludek/Jelawdik/ Zelodkovskaya at 53º36 24º59 ...
Dear members It can not be denied that many of the ethnically non-Polish residents of Kresy sided against the ethnically Polish residents during the war. T...
Katyn declassified More than 70 years following the Soviet-perpetrated genocidal massacre of the Polish elite, newly-declassified documents on Katyn reveal...
Marcy Kaptur Congresswoman and declassification of U.S.A. Katyn Records - Official Notice Public Opening of Newly Declassified Katyñ Materials Conducted with ...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic novel, was published 50 years ago this month. A short, simply-told tale about a...
The Kresy-Siberia Foundation announces its 3rd Annual 10 Feb 1940 campaign We Remember the Siberian Deportees. You can see the full details concerning the...
This is alarming!!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9854619/Document-pro claiming-death-of-Soviet-Union-missing.html Lenarda,...
Quote - Inside the Dark Applebaum's Gulag. Michael Ledeen If our schools and universities cared about history, Anne Applebaum's magisterial work, Gulag ...
Self explanatory and movie should be adults only rating - Wanted: A good <http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=22&ved=0CDk ...
