Please note that I am on Anual Leave from Wednesday the 10th April until Tuesday the 16th April inclusive. For all University business related matters please...
Please welcome Bert Bakker to the group. It is wonderful to have South African representation on the group, and to hear that you are writing a book on...
Please welcome Piotr Sosabowski to the group. We look forward to the sharing of information - anything you would like to post in our photos section? Also,...
Hello All, After the recent screening of Gladiators of WW2, I was wondering if anbody else remembers a televsion series shown here in England around the mid...
Please welcome Cass Glodek to the group. Cass, thanks for the introduction about your family - this let's us make connections and help each other research our...
I wrote an email to "Lestweforget" email address provided in kresy discussion page and my inquiry was bounced back with the following rationale for rejection: ...
Helen and list - Yes, I also find this subject very interesting. I feel that most list members' families lived elsewhere prior to settling in the Kresy. My...
Barbara Luszczynska mentioned the Zwiazek Sybiraków in Poland in another posting. Can anybody fill the group in on this organisation? It would be great to ...
Hello Elizabeth With reference to Penley Hall Camp in Wrexham. I don't know much about it except that I was born there in 1947. I will make further enquiries...
Sometimes a picture is worth 1000 words. I would like to introduce you to two galleries of paintings on the theme of the deportations and harsh labour in the...
Good morning everyone, A thought about databases. Various genealogical web sites that I have visited do not allow you to post information about living persons...
I am forwarding this message from Ela. ... Stefan, Alexander and group Thanks for your help, and thanks Paul for the information that you have made available...
To Catherine Lucy Czerkawska: You are right about your grandfather. Being a landowner and former cavalry man was sufficient for arrest and deportation. I am...
Dear Henry, Wanda, and list, I am sorry. I think you misinterpreted what we are trying to do. What I proposed is a list of place names only. I will not be...
On the matter of the data-base [alphabetical listings of members, osada/towns/villages, etc.]: I think it would be a very useful research 'tool' to identify...
Please welcome Barbara Luszczynska, an original survivor of the deportations and our first member from Missouri USA! Barbara I hope that you can provide some...
Dear List : Does anyone have any idea of what happened to the records of people who arrived in the UK from Italy? (I am aware of the Min of Def, Middlesex,...
Ela (and group members) I am working on getting a digital copy of the Soviet deportation and labour camp map to put on the website (there is a small one in our...
Please welcome Mieczyslaw Jedras. Bonus thanks to Gary Jucha for introducing Mieczyslaw to the group. Our group members all share an interest in the...
To Grace about Penrith: Yes, it is amazing how quickly things are forgotten or were never really appreciated. Here in the States the entire subject of the...
Please welcome Jim Poesl to the group. Jim, I hope that you get a lot out of the group and can also contribute to our goals of research, remembrance, and...
I have placed the complete video minus the initial minute as I was a bit slow in getting to the VCR on my home pages, I'm now awaiting permission from the...
Hello Stefan, Steve, and list - Would the following be a possibility? Could we have a page at the site which would list all osada/towns/villages of list...
Please welcome Catherine Czerkawska. It is great to have a professional writer in the group! Catherine I hope that you will both contribute and receive...
Does anyone know anything about the resettlement camp (Obus) which was located near the villages of Silver End and Kelvedon, and Rivenhall, near Witham in...
Grace if you lived at the camp for 6 years do you remember an Andrzej Mojsiewicz? I am guessing his date of birth was around 1947 [at work no files to hand] ...
hello Stefan Thanks for the offer of help with translation. My Polish is not too bad and I can get local help with the Russian. I have read your most recent...
second query: noticing in my grandfather's handwritten form [for 2nd corps?] the section regarding which areas of Poland [and outside the borders] the soldier...
