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Subject:
[Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] Family Searches
From: "'Vincent'
geffroy@...
[Kresy-Siberia]"
<
Kresy-Siberia@...>
Date:
Sat, April 09, 2016 11:36 pm
To: <
Kresy-Siberia@...>
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Dear Members
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This week has been a bit of a rollercoaster for
my siblings and I. For years I have been trying to find information on my
late father's family, more specifically my grandparents Tadeusz & Helena
NIKIEL. Given the fact that my father was an only survivor from his family,
I have tried in vain to find out to which Siberian camp my grandmother was
deported?in 1939, ?where she died and on what date. In July last
year I contacted the International Tracing Service in Germany to see if they
could find any information on my grandparents. When I opened my Emails this
week, after returning from holiday, there was a reply from the ITS. I was
expecting the usual reply that they were unable to find any information, but
was excited when I learned that they had found information regarding my
grandmother. My excitement very quickly turned?to horror & pain.
Far from being informed of a date & place of death, I was told that my
grandmother had survived the war & in 1960 had made attempts to find my
father & his younger brother, Tadeusz. She was residing in Prague at the
time.?In 1960 we were living in England & had absolutely no idea
that my father had any family that had survived the war, let alone a
grandmother that was trying to find her sons!?It is wonderful to know
that Helena NIKIEL did not perish in Siberia, but so very sad to think what
could have been had she been reunited with my father and us. We would have
had a grandmother & possibly extended family......who knows. The ITS is
going to? investigate further to see if they can find more information
concerning my grandmother & whether she was ever reunited with her
youngest son, Tadeusz. If he survived the war, I may have relations still
alive. Tragically it is too little too late for Helena!!!
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I am informing K-S members of my experiences
this week in order?that it may bring?hope to others who for years
or?maybe their whole life, like me, believed that they had
no?family that survived the horrors of WWII. Never give up hope! Never
give up the search! There are answers out there!?
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Regards
Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel)
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