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Yes, there are business oriented shops with large bed photocopiers
(to make a less fragile copy for day to day reference) and large bed
scanners.

My family was in Masindi camp in Uganda (Anna and Zosia Sokolowska
and Marysia Skiba)

Henryk

--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., "bert_bakker41"
wrote:
> When I visited the old site of the Tengeru Polish refugee camp and
> the cemetery recently, I met with two Polish people who stayed
> behind in Tanzania, namely Sabina Szeliga and Edward Wojtowicz.
> They are both around eighty years old.
>
> Edward supervised the vegetable gardens that provided the camp
with
> food, making it into a self-reliance operation.
>
> Later he and Sabina ran a successful butchery which was
expropriated
> by the central government in a wave of nationalisations in the
late
> sixties. They have continued to trade from their private home in
> nearby Arusha until today.
>
> They were left in charge of the Polish Association which was
forced
> to close down after nearly all Poles left Tanganyika. The Polish
> Association owned a house not far from Tengeru, which was handed
> over to the R.C. church some 35 years ago and is now occupied by
> nuns.
>
> Edward and Sabina also looked after the Polish cemetery at Tengeru
> before the Polish embassy in Dar es Salaam took over.
>
> They have quite a few photographs of life in the Tengeru camp,
> which, hopefully one day, they will donate to the new museum at
> Tengeru.
>
> Sabina has a great knowledge of the Tengeru camp. I have recorded
> her story both on audio and video.
>
> Edward pointed out the existence of three interesting books on
> Polish deportees, namely:
>
> "Tutacze Dzieci - Exiled Children"
> with a foreword by Cardinal Jozef Glemp
> published by Fundacja Archiwum Fotograficzne Tulaczy, Warsawa in
1995
> ISBN 83-77079-436-X
>
> and-
> "Journey Without A Ticket"
> by Zdzislawa Krystyna Kawecka in 1998
> published by Fine Print (Nottingham) Ltd
> ISBN 0-9515883-0-3
>
> and-
> "To England thru Siberia"
> Z Kresow Wschodnich Rzeczpospolitej
> published by Ognisko Rodzin Osadnikow Kresowych in 1992
> ISBN 1 872286 33 X
>
> Last but not least:
> Edward has lent me an official list published by the Polish Red
> Cross in Kenya containing the names of all the Polish refugees who
> were sent to Africa, i.e. Tanganyika(Tanzania)-Kenya-Uganda-
Northern
> Rhodesia(Zambia)-Southern Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) and South Africa, as
> well as Palestine, Mexico, and Panchgani, India.
> The list contains some 14,300 names, most of them complete with
year
> of birth and often with the full date.
> The list is fragile but the names are perfectly legible.
> Because of its size (50 x 31cm) I am unable to scan it.
> Can anybody help?????
> In the meantime, I'll be most willing to check if any person is
> mentioned in the list.
>
> When I was in Tanzania, I was told that the Pope had a close
> relative in one of the camps in Uganda and when he visited the
> country made a special pilgrimage to a grave there.
> Can anybody shed light on this?



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