Thanks Rys for sharing the story of your dziadek's heroic feats. What he did took a great deal more courage than 'just standing by a horse' Such brave...
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ryszardsys
Feb 19, 2013 11:33 am
Well today I received my dziadek's "Virtuti Militari" from the office of the President of Poland. Together with some documents, I now know why he received the...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 19, 2013 9:02 am
Rys, your journey is educating us all. Again thank you for sharing this knowledge. Warmest regards, Lenarda, Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
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ryszardsys
Feb 19, 2013 8:00 am
Elzunia, What is your e-mail address and I'll send you the scans of the ankieta's (I can't find a way to do it with "send email" option. Rys UK...
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ryszardsys
Feb 19, 2013 7:40 am
Lenarda, My son's curriculum includes WW2, but very focused on Nazi Germany. They have to write a project of how the war affected their family but it very much...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 18, 2013 10:57 pm
Hi group, lots of research material about Poland, with a book worth a read - Jerzy Jan Lerski, A Polish Chapter in Jacksonian America, Madison, Wisc., 1958. ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 18, 2013 8:39 pm
Rys, there is so much information written in your words that will assist other members and I am certain that they will be glued to your words, as I am, with...
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ryszardsys
Feb 18, 2013 12:37 pm
Lenarda, My dad always had his birth date as 15th January 1933, but he always said that his mum couldn't remember exactly because she made him one year younger...
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Frances
frncsgts
Feb 18, 2013 11:16 am
Thanks Basia, I wasn't exactly sure of the family relationship. Frances...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 18, 2013 10:35 am
Rys, always with the joke, so how do you find out what birth date is correct, the local church? I don't know about assistance from Soviets, but did read that...
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atticusfinch...
Feb 18, 2013 10:26 am
Hi Anna Have you contacted Jerzy and George members here who are connected with various departments at Manchester University - I think George covers the ...
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annapacewicz
Feb 18, 2013 9:53 am
Dear group, We have an urgent deadline of this Friday for a grant proposal from MSZ in Poland. One of the projects that we are looking at submitting is on the...
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Stefan Wisniowski
skwisniowski
Feb 18, 2013 9:41 am
Very smooth AK ;) SK...
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ryszardsys
Feb 18, 2013 9:38 am
Lenarda, The dates of the family members are all wrong! I have about 12 documents signed by my dziadek and in each, he has the birth dates incorrect. To top...
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annapacewicz
Feb 18, 2013 9:02 am
Dear all, a million thanks for so many wonderful suggestions (and I hope they keep coming). I'm going to keep a list of all these and follow-up what I can with...
On 17 Feb 2013, at 20:28, "Lenarda Szymczak" <szymczak01@...> wrote: Thank you for sharing your translation of this very precious document It was...
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Kresy-Siberia@yahoogr...
Feb 17, 2013 10:02 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Kresy-Siberia group. File : /Hoover...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Feb 17, 2013 9:50 pm
My father was also "released, transported to Ju¿a, Iwanowska, Rosja" in Aug 1941. We do have a file for Hoover statements, so if you Rysio, or anyone else,...
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martin stepek
martinstepek
Feb 17, 2013 9:41 pm
I have changed my blog and its web address to better reflect how I want to use it in future, giving more space and attention now to my mother’s Scottish (and...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 17, 2013 8:28 pm
Rys, this is great translation, so good you share with group, in the honesty of this ankieta, we see the true horror and also you have year of birth of other...
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ryszardsys
Feb 17, 2013 4:22 pm
I have managed to finally translate the whole "ankieta" written by my dziadek, Stanislaw Sys which he wrote in about 1943. It was on a thin sheet of paper...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Feb 17, 2013 4:09 pm
Frances, Jan Kazimierski was Antoni's brother. Basia (UK)...
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STEPHEN STELMASZUK
stephen.stel...
Feb 17, 2013 1:53 pm
Google 303 sqaudron you will find plenty heroes. ________________________________ From: annapacewicz <annapacewicz@...> To:...
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szypowska
Feb 17, 2013 3:08 am
Dear Frank, Congratulations on having your father’s story published! What wonderful news. I shall be sure to order a copy. Good luck with the second book....
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Frances
frncsgts
Feb 17, 2013 2:37 am
Those men and women who were dropped into enemy-occupied territory were incredibly brave - especially as some of them, such as Jan Kazimierski had suffered in...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Feb 16, 2013 10:29 pm
Frank, Wonderful work, very tiresome, but a release at the same time, to put into words, a book, the truth and history of your fathers'journey, which will...
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fpleszak
Feb 16, 2013 10:04 pm
After years of preparation the book I wrote about my father's journey after being exiled to Siberia from a remote village in Poland and eventually settling in...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Feb 16, 2013 7:34 pm
I would like to nominate Jan Kazimierski who was the first Polish airman to be airlifted into Warsaw. Antoni, do please fill this out. The book is in Oxford...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Feb 16, 2013 4:28 pm
Hi Eva Any of our members can get these free tickets ? It would be a very enjoyable and interesting day out. As is said 'Entertaining and educational" Kind...
