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Hello Stan
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Thank you so much for your offer of help. I am
still trying to find to which camp my grandmother was deported in?1939. Her
name was Helena NIKIEL (née GIERCYK/GERCYK), husband Tadeusz NIKIEL. That is
literally?all I know about her. I estimate she must have been born
1880-1890, certainly no later than 1895. In 1939 she was living in Zdolbunow,
Wolyn, at ul. 3. Maja, Nr 52, m2. She?may well have been born elsewhere; in
fact I think it is most likely. My father, Edward Josef, was born in Zdolbunow
in 1921, as was his youngest brother Tadeusz in 1928(?).?It would now
appear that my grandmother did not die in the camp, as she was alive in 1960,
living in Prague. I am supposing that she must have been released during Amnesty
in 1941.
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My late father appears in the Osradek KARTA as
Edward NIKIEL, born 1921, Father Tadeusz, with
Sygnatura ZUB-/387/182/13. Would I be able to find
files somewhere with this reference number?
I should really appreciate any help or suggestions that you may
have for me to gain more information.
Kind
Regards????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel)
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Hi Mark, Karen and? all!
I am not dinosaur, but
I hate Facebook too.
Karen, I am glad to see you result ...
Can I help you?
Stan f.M.
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See Stefan, I told
you!
Karen, I am also a
dinosaur, hate the concept of Facebook, but Stefan pulled me in.
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Mark T. Canada
From: "'Vincent'
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Hello Stefan
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Thank
you for sharing my post with K-S Facebook members & for the invitation to
join you all there. I am not a member of Facebook, by choice.......I am still
a bit of a dinosaur!! So I shall continue to get all my K-S messages via
Yahoo.
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Regards
Karen
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Thank you Karen - I have also shared your post with our new Facebook
members. Please join us all there at?
Best
regards?
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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!?
?
Regards
Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel)
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