Hello to all. ?As you may know, I am new to this group and have joined, like many of you, in hope of fleshing out my family tree and, more importantly to me, gaining a greater understanding of my family's experiences. ?
My mother, still alive, was a child when displaced to the Siberian work camps from Poland. ?While she remembers some of her experiences there, I have no information from her (or her deceased parents) to indicate where she was ... and like so many others, she and her mother wound their way to Persia, and later to one of the Polish Camps in Africa (Abercorn). ?
If any of you have begun your searches at a similar place, I welcome warmly any suggestions you have to help me jump start my search. Specifically, I am hoping to determine: where in Siberia my family was, and in what orphanage in Persia my mother was placed and where my uncle (a child when he dies in Persia) is buried. ?Also, I do not understand how orphans in Persia/Iran were reunited with parents. ?Additionally, I keep my fingers crossed that I will find others who were in the Abercorn camp.
I've begun to work my way through the many resources listed on the Forgotten Odyssey site, and have written to the British Ministry of Defense for my grandfather's records. ?Still, any information or leads you might contribute would be warmly appreciated. ?Thank you, in advance. ?Rachael
