Hi all This is a website and database on repression. It covers both the Nazi and Soviet repression. Unfortunately the data base is in Polish. But if you...
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Helen Bitner
helenbitner
Mar 4, 2013 5:02 pm
Dear Group Please welcome new member Teresa whose father, Jozef, was born in 1936 in Kremieniec, Poland. He was the youngest of four children. Teresa's...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Mar 4, 2013 5:16 pm
I believe Chris from Calgary took a shot at figuring out the USSR enlistment but nothing panned out. He was underage but lied from this enlistment point I...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Mar 4, 2013 5:19 pm
I am assuming too that Feb.18, 1942 is the day my dad was written up for Polish army in USSR....Keremine as well....and 7th Division. Where he came from.. the...
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skwisniowski
Mar 4, 2013 5:23 pm
Hi Kris Thanks for this link. Actually, the correct link is http://www.straty.pl/index.php/szukaj-w-bazie This Polish government-funded program is actually...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Mar 4, 2013 5:24 pm
Well that is the story for all of us......a patchwork of information put together over years. I would rewrite MOD and ask for a photcopy of the whole file on...
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Kris Fenwick
kbfenwick
Mar 4, 2013 5:36 pm
Hi Stefan, Thanks for the info. My father is from the Pomeranian area and his family is in the database. Best wishes, Kris Toronto, Ontario, Canada ... ...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Mar 4, 2013 5:48 pm
Hi ! I've confused myself in the dates of departure from Pahlavi. I understand that the most accurate information is the date of departure. Arrival date - more...
Did you know that the Kaganowich ship arriving in Pahlevi August 10th had the last Junacki?  932 of them.  hania   ________________________________ ...
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geniopoz8
Mar 4, 2013 7:55 pm
Just looking through some of these messages made me go back to my own research and share some things that may help. ~Sept 1941 The initial recruitment centres...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Mar 4, 2013 8:38 pm
I am going to do this. Funny that in dad's record there is also a charge for playing cards after lights out, and being late for parade once. Â Mark T. Canada ...
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Anne Kaczanowski
kazameena
Mar 4, 2013 8:47 pm
January 15th, 1942..... Anders moves his HQ from Buzuluk to Yangi-Yul.. Just another date to add to files.  hania ________________________________ From:...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 4, 2013 9:18 pm
My dad was in Komi: Komi, Uchto-Peczora – Czyboj: nr 13, SZDL = Siewierneje Zelezno-Darozneje Lagiera. (building railway Kniaz-Pogost to Uchta) There don't...
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Julian Plowy
julek2205
Mar 4, 2013 9:51 pm
Life in Stalin's Gulags inShareMAR 4 2013, 10:38 AM ET *Vorkuta - a labor-camp-cum-city -- was built from nothing on an icebound wasteland by political...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 4, 2013 10:24 pm
Teresa welcome to group, we have much knowledge and will assist in all that is possible. my heart sinks to hear of Antoni dying while marching as I know of...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 4, 2013 10:50 pm
There seem to be a lot of confusion with dates !! These is info taken directly from my dad's autobiography: September 18, 1939 Tarnopol, arrested by Soviets. ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 4, 2013 11:00 pm
Kris and Stefan, thank you. I found my Tatus, Jozef Jarkiewicz Regards Lenarda Szymczak, Jarkiewicz, Chmielewska, Swiecicka, Australia DANE OSOBOWE nazwisko ...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 4, 2013 11:02 pm
This pretty much agrees with my dad's story, even the small details. Dad also mentions a visit from Gen. Sikorski in Jalalabad. On the list of departures from...
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szypowska
Mar 4, 2013 11:42 pm
Hi Teresa, There is a J Basinski on the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum Wall of Names ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 4, 2013 11:47 pm
Thank you Halina for the links and your short notation below, because if not for this personal writing from you, I would not have opened it thinking it to be...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 4, 2013 11:48 pm
You are right Stan - we need to make a list of the first evacuations. There doesn't seem to be an official list available (though there must be one, somewhere)...
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danutakelly
Mar 5, 2013 1:23 am
I did have the original of "LEGITYMACJA NR273/7p.a.c. written in both Polish and Russian. I take this to be his ID papers from Kermine. I have since given...
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danadler2007
Mar 5, 2013 5:44 am
Hi, I thought that the camp my mother's family were at was in Sverdlovsk Oblast area. But I found some notes where my mother also said that they floated logs...
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danadler2007
Mar 5, 2013 5:45 am
I found a sketch of the Asino camp here: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/gathering_fragments/karniel.asp Here is a direct link to the sketch: ...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 5, 2013 6:17 am
Dan, my Grandfather Mikolaj Chmielewski was taken from Niwna, Zhitomirski Oblast by NKVD 1937 to Sverdlovsk na Urali, where he was to cut trees and float down...
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Lucyna Artymiuk
lucyna_98
Mar 5, 2013 6:21 am
I am finding certain walls in part of my family reseach - so I am thinking outsde the box Last year there were some IPN (the Institute of National Memory) ...
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danadler2007
Mar 5, 2013 6:23 am
Julek, That's amazing! Were you on that ship with your mother? Thanks, -Dan New York...
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JackieR
jackie_rze
Mar 5, 2013 6:51 am
Dear Group, I attended a book launch on Sunday 3rd March at the Polish Heritage Trust Museum in Auckland for a book called 'Alone' by Alina Suchanski and I ...
