Thank you, Stan, for undertaking to create a list of ships and departures in the first exodus March-April 1942. You have had such success finding other ...
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 ...
Tilford, you are absolutely right about the subject. Please refer to the following for further explanation. There is more to this than meets the first...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/gulags-were-a-horrific-cornerstone-of-stalinist-russia/273703/ Gulags Were a Horrific Cornerstone of...
Here is a start for the search for ships in the first Evacuation of March-April 1942 Gustaw Herlingwrote: March 26th, 1942 10th division from Lugovoye was...
Hi, This site lists those murdered in Lwiw from 1939 to 1947. The sight is in Polish, but I have translated it to English.  Unfortunately, it also...
Forgive me if this has been previously posted! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& ...
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...
Being that Mieczysław Ludwik Boruta-Spiechowiczbecame the commanding officer of the newly formed Polish 5th Infantry Division on Russian soil ( until 1943)…...
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) ...
Dear UK members, Please find attached details below of a fantastic little musical play about Wojtek the bear which will be held on Sunday 17 March in...
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: ...
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...
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...
This is disturbing, but as with all notorious people, someone has to write a book and make a movie, as they did with Hitler. Quote - Montefiore believes...
Am always more than a little wary of psychological speculations as to how people developed their character. My own research and investigations into how the...
Hi group Details below are from Basia about her family Some details about my father. His full name - Jozef Zielinski His parents Jozef Zielinski and Anna...
Krystyna, I have read Poles Beyond the Borders of the II RP in KSVM and it brought forward tears. It is a good description and especially gives recognition of...
Please welcome new member Joe who is the great nephew of Father Francis Pluta, the commandant of the Balachadi orphanage near Jamangar, India, during World...
For those interested in the Settlements in the Kresy, I have uploaded the chapters from a book about this topic that were translated into English, under the...
Anyone know of this organization? "Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR" I found a membership card of my grandmother for the period of 1942-1945 when they...
Dear Friends, It is my understanding that new members often introduce themselves to the group upon joining. My name is Chris Conway and I am a professor of...
