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? I am not sure on the spelling, is it Nykiel?? If so, and I suspect it is, a Joseph Nykiel was my confirmation sponsor in Detroit, Michigan, USA, back in the 1950s. ? My father was from the Lwow area also, and I think they knew the Nykiel family from there.? I can try to get in touch with the family here, if you think it is the same. ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Rysiek Kasprzak --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Vincent Geffroy <geffroy@...> wrote:
From: Vincent Geffroy <geffroy@...> Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] New Member To: Kresy-Siberia@... Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 5:50 PM Dear Members, My name is Karen Geffroy and I am the daughter of the late Edward Josef NIKIEL, who was born in Zdolbunow in 1921. My father and his mother, Helena NIKIEL (née HERCZYK) were arrested by the NKVD in Lwow in 1940 and deported to separate slave labour camps. My father was sent to Vorkhuta in Siberia, where he spent 17 months. After escaping he made his way via Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Persia, Egypt, Palestine to England, where he joined the Polish navy in exile until the end of the war. It would appear that his mother died in the slave labour camp to which she was sent. My father lost his father, Tadeusz NIKIEL, in the Warsaw Uprising and other siblings during the course of the war. He, as the only survivor of his family, never returned to Poland. I am interested to find information on my paternal family, whom I never knew and about which I have very little information. Regards Karen Geffroy ------------------------------------ Please support the group by subscribing and by making a donation: * KRESY-SIBERIA 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." * Discussion site? Virtual Memorial Wall Gallery (photos, documents) Booklist Film? * To CONTACT the Group Moderators please send an e-mail to: Kresy-Siberia-owner@... To SUBSCRIBE to the discussion group, send an e-mail saying who you are and describing your interest in the group to: Kresy-Siberia-subscribe@... To UNSUBSCRIBE from this group, send an email to: Kresy-Siberia-unsubscribe@... *Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
