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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:27
PM
Subject: RE: [Kresy-Siberia]
Introduction
Helo
Peter,
?
I'm
Linder and I live in Long Eaton, Nottingham. The group get's closer. Good luck
in your searches
Linder
Helena,
Thanks for the message -
I will let you have details of any progress I make.
I live in
Nottingham
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Helena
Danielczuk"
To:
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 9:45
PM
Subject: RE: [Kresy-Siberia] Introduction
>
>
Hello Peter
>
> Where are you in UK?
>
> You will
find what you need to and you will learn more because that
has
been
> the one thing which drives any of us, to find out about
ourselves and this
> we do by finding out and understanding about outr
parents and
grandparents.
>
> Since I have hd the honoour and
privilege to belong to this group I have
at
> times been ashamed at
my behaviour towards my parents and their generation
> in the past,
but i am so lucky that I now understand them more and feel so
>
humbled that and so grateful that they are my parents. I am so lucky
too
> that I can still have time with them and take advantage of my
new
> understanding of them and maybe redress and compesate them for
any hurt i
> might have caused them through my own ignorance and
behaviour.
> The one thing you will find we all have in common too is
the reluctance on
> the part of our parents or grandparents to discuss
these things.? There
are
> many theories why this is
so.
>
> Good luck
> Never lose
faith
>
>
>
>
> Bye 4 now
Hela.
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Peter Grabowski"
> >Reply-To:
Kresy-Siberia@...
> >To:
> >Subject: [Kresy-Siberia]
Introduction
> >Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:08:54 +0100
>
>
> >Hi everyone.
> >
> >My father never
talked about the war or even his family or his child
hood.
> >As
far his new family was concerned he was a Pole who fought against
the
> >Germans who invaded his homeland and who ended up in England
to start a
new
> >life. The impression we got from my father was
that the past was too
> >painfull for him to talk about.
>
>
> >It wasn't until just before he died in 1997 at the age of
77 that I
managed
> >to get him to talk a little about his past
and he didn't tell me that
much.
> >
> >His parents
were Polish - Bernard & Maria (nee Brzusinska) Grabowski they
>
>lived in Odessa. His father was a shoe maker and he had two
younger
> >brothers - Piotr and Leonard. He wrote down an address
in Odessa where he
> >lived and I believe that this address still
exists.
> >
> >When he died I had to sort out his affairs
and I found a black box
> >(apparently he stole this from a German
- it has a swastika imprinted on
> >it) in the box I found about 30
photographs mainly connected to his
travels
> >through the war
years. One is a photograph of the Polish army unit I
> >believe
that he fought in - Destazowana Kompani Saperow. I have obtained
>
>his army records from the 24th August 1942 when he served with the
Polish
> >forces under British Command. In these records it states;
" Together with
> >the Polish Army he crossed the Soviety-Iranian
frontier, was evacuated to
> >Iran, thereby came under British
Command with effect from 15th August
> >1942". Via Iraq was
transferred to Palestine. and then on to Italy
> >
> >He
fought at Monte Cassino and I am proud to have in my possession his
>
>"Cross for Monte Cassino".
> >
> >On the 8th November
my Polish friend Marian Rabczak has agreed to go with
> >me to
Odessa to start my quest to try and find out anything I can
about
my
> >father and his family. I am going to start by simply
knocking on the door
> >of the address my father gave me - I have
to start somewhere!
> >
> >I did not know anything about
the Kresy-Siberia group and its reason for
> >being in existence
but I am pretty sure that I am about to learn a lot
>
>more.
> >
> >Peter Grabowski
>
>
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"Dedicated to researching,
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GROUP = RESEARCH REMEMBRANCE RECOGNITION
"Dedicated to researching,
remembering and recognising the Polish citizens
deported, enslaved and
killed by the Soviet Union during World War
Two."
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site :
Gallery
(photos, documents) :
Film
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