Dear Ewa, Thank you so much for this post and for helping to solve the "Operation Scrivner" mystery. My Dad, Wladek Pacewicz, was on this ship. His MoD records...
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Frances
frncsgts
Mar 6, 2013 12:01 pm
Anna How amazing!! It's wonderful that you have been able to find more details about your Aunt and her work for the Red Cross in Iran - also it's quite...
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Witold J Lukaszewski
k130440
Mar 6, 2013 4:37 pm
Krysiu, How wonderful, and historically important, that you have your father's handwritten and dated letter from Blagovieshchenka. I would have it preserved by...
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stephen.stelmaszuk@...
stephen.stel...
Mar 6, 2013 4:39 pm
Dear Stan could you pleases look to see if my dad is on this list.According to papers i have he was in the same area as John's dad and uncle.His name is...
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Krystyna Mew
krystynamew
Mar 6, 2013 4:54 pm
Hi Witek Actually I have had it preserved. Last year the USHMM asked whether I would be willing to donate my father's journals and his artwork (over 400...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Mar 6, 2013 5:16 pm
Stephen, Alexander was born in 1928? He was osadnik? His father (your grand) was Feliks? Stan from M. ________________________________ From:...
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martin stepek
martinstepek
Mar 6, 2013 5:18 pm
Wow Frances Thank you so much for sharing this. It is so evocative, had me close to tears several times, sometimes with pity, other times with pride that the...
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ANN SIBURUTH
ann.siburuth...
Mar 6, 2013 6:53 pm
Hi, Elzunia. sounds a really fascinating but very difficult project. I wish it every success.  I will contact my family in Poland to see if they know...
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ANN SIBURUTH
ann.siburuth...
Mar 6, 2013 7:02 pm
I just wanted to tell the group about my first meeting with Eva Szegidewicz, on Monday evening last.  It was a great pleasure to meet you Eva.  We were...
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Tadeusz Brozbar
brozbar
Mar 6, 2013 9:03 pm
Nie wiem czy Pañstwo rozumiecie po polsku ale w naszym przypadku w rodzinie Paszkowskich ewakuowa³o sie 5 braci Paszkowskich wraz z Tat± Miko³ajem ktory...
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ADefi
adefi54
Mar 6, 2013 9:34 pm
Jurek Z Neisser, congratulations on your new position and all the best on your new endeavors! Anna D USA ________________________________ From:...
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Alexandra Copley
alexandra.co...
Mar 6, 2013 10:04 pm
Thank you for this find, Frances. This first person account of the arrival of the early evacuees reaching Pahlevi is an absolute treasure, providing a...
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Barbara Milligan
basia5milligan
Mar 6, 2013 10:16 pm
Panie Tadueszu, Wiekszosc rozmowy jest po angielsku, ale duzo czlonkow mowia po polsku. Niech Pan napisze obszerniej i mozemy przetlumaczy, albo prosto...
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strangerbdazled
Mar 6, 2013 11:04 pm
Hi All, I would like to mention one more detail from my memories about Pahlevi, which is often omitted. We were in the second evacuation, August or September...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 6, 2013 11:13 pm
Pan Taduesz, this is correct (to jest Prawda) and thank you Basia, most of us even if we do not speak Polish, can read or use translator and we wait for more...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 6, 2013 11:24 pm
Romuald, I did read stories of this and two in particular, when the exiles reach their first enlistment point, they were given good food and many became ill or...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 6, 2013 11:45 pm
does anyone know how to set the yahoo site setting to unicode? to avoid all these funny symbols I keep getting Elzunia...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 7, 2013 12:10 am
Did your grandfather live in Wilno Carol? I wonder if your grandfather knew my dad from days before the war then? they were the same age, though my dad moved...
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Mark
turkiewiczm
Mar 7, 2013 3:06 am
Thanks Romuald. I notice that you were in the second evacuation and may not remember the dates, but do you recall if there were more than one vessel or gorups...
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George Neisser
george.neiss...
Mar 7, 2013 10:06 am
Thank you Martin and others.  I will endeavour to fulfil my duties in this role to the best of my abilities.  Many thanks  Jurek ...
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Carol Clements
caz2ukuk
Mar 7, 2013 2:51 pm
I wondered that too. His photos are in your fathers book. I know very little about his life as a young boy. I am in contact with some of his family but they do...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Mar 7, 2013 4:03 pm
This story was referenced in a facebook group and some KS members might find it resonates with their own quest for compensation. Go to the originating site to...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Mar 7, 2013 4:20 pm
Another gem from another forum: ...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Mar 7, 2013 6:51 pm
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/21/could-stalin-have-been-stopped/?page=1  - New York Review of Books review of Roosevelt’s Lost...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 7, 2013 8:32 pm
John this is a brilliant find and the rest is self explanatory, the values are priceless. Lenarda,Australia From: Kresy-Siberia@yahoogroups.com...
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 7, 2013 8:50 pm
John very raw honest article, but what caught my eye, was – Quote - ... At the Potsdam Conference in July–August 1945, both President Truman and the new...
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m.kulik@...
m.kulik...
Mar 7, 2013 9:39 pm
I have just finished the above book which was a fascinating read and which will be of some considerable interest to others. The place referred to in the title...
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Elzunia/Elizabeth Gra...
elzuniao
Mar 7, 2013 10:02 pm
yes, I see T Wojcik in several photos but the name doesn't ring a bell. The saperzy had many get-togethers after the war during my childhood so I do recognise...
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Carol Clements
caz2ukuk
Mar 7, 2013 10:16 pm
Yes someone found him for me on Karta. He was under the surname of Meldun not Mieldun. Granddad and Tad were in the barracks in a little town in Lancashire....
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Lenarda Szymczak
lenardaszymczak
Mar 7, 2013 10:37 pm
Michael, this is where my mother is from, born 1924 after the Riga Treaty of 1921, in Janinowka then moved to Niwna 60k from Slucz River and 30k from ...
