Dear Helen I LOVE the way the Kresy-Siberia emails just arrived. THANK YOU Kind regards Basia Zielinska (Sydney) From: Helen Bitner <helen.bitner@...> ...
Dear Witek, Thank you so much - I really appreciate it. My grandfather was killed in Katyn so I'm a bit surprised there is nothing in the Federal Archives but...
Hi Mark, Superstar, thank you :) It's for the Anders Army in Action section of EGO. I'm also including this wonderful quote from Jozef Czapski 'The Inhuman...
Anna, this quote says it all, this is why we exist. You can destroy the body but never the Polish spirit or the faith in God. No matter what nationality or...
Dear Group 'For There is Hope' Martin Stepek I have just finished reading Martin Stepek's epic poem about his family's Siberian 'experience'. In fact I felt...
Dan, in many cases those who stayed in USSR exiled and repressed in the period of 1943-1947 had no choice but need to belong to this organisation as it was the...
Anna, I got the ame response from these people twice. I will try again next year. Mark T. Canada ________________________________ From: annapacewicz...
Dear Anna, Do not strike the Moscow archive from your list. They have been stone-walling this entire issue for decades, and you are yet another victim of this...
Dear Witold (expensive Witold - my poor Google translate)! You are absolutely right. We are all children of the system that brought us up. Another thing -...
Anna, I've tried my best but some words are very faint. Its from FEDERAL ARCHIVE AGENCY. It says: To inform you that the {Vosnnom?} Russian State Archive {very...
My grandfather Antoni Mieldun was in 2 of the camps you mention. How did the POW's that signed up to join Anders get across the USSR and how does one find out...
I, also, would appreciate some information from "Army in Exile", please. Through my local inter-library loan program, I was able to obtain Anders book for two...
My husband-- Sybirak and Anders Army veteran Aleksander Topolski-- turned 90 last week.... but which day? He always thought his birthday was Feb. 20, 1923,...
Aneta, thank you for this information, it puts another piece together in the jig saw puzzle together of my family, as my mother was in Kolkhoz and my uncle in...
Also please remember to check out our bookstore for many books and films, organised into themes by Kresy-Siberia gallery topics. A new copy of this book can be...
Dear Group, "March 24, 1944 Col. Kazimierz Wisniowski, the Chief of Staff of the 2nd Corps took part in the briefing and he later recalled that Gen. Leese told...
From Anders in Exile ...Page 92-94......Anders Returned to Kuybyshev December 5, 1941….Sikorski caught a cold and couldn’t go to Buzuluk for a few days.....
Hania, this is amazing in 1942 all the young people (including my mamusa – Polish born) were taken by Germans as slave workers from the Zhitomirski Oblast,...
Thank you to everyone (Stan, Witek, Ryszard, Mark, Aneta) for help with translating and comments. Stan in regard to your suggestion, the best response I had...
KS SHOP should sell this movie/documentary. Can we?????????????????? WOJTEK - THE BEAR THAT WENT TO WAR (2011) UK/Poland, 59 mins, HD, documentary, dir. Will...
Dear Anna! I recently enrolled in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (ГАРФ). What could I see out there for you? Please specify me your questions...
Thank you so much for the very kind words about my book Krystyna (and thanks too for yours Helen). It means a lot that it resonates especially for those of us...
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Dear All, I am doing research about Poles in Africa and India in the Forties. After spending long hours in archives I would like to talk to people who were...
Julia Romauld Kubisz is my cousin who survived deportation as a child to Siberia and subsequently Africa and then taken to the UK after the war. He lives in...
