Stephen
I have forwarded this to the Kresy-Siberia Group for the members' consideration and if any of them would like to request photos of their families graves in Iran. ?Our member Wladyslaw Czapski was there last year, as I mentioned.
My most recent contact info was:
Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Africa Expressway, Pirouz Str. 1/3
P.O. Box 11365-3489
19-174 Teheran
Iran.
Phone: (0-09821) 8787-262/4
Fax: (0-09821) 8788-774
Email: ambrpiri@...
But like you, I never received an e-mail response.
Best wishes for a great trip to Iran!
Regards
Stefan Wisniowski
> From: "Stephan Landis"
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:48:03 -0500
> To: swisniowski@...
> Subject: Re: Location of Polish Cemetery, Tehran
>
> Thank you, Stefan, for the note. I still have had difficulty in gettng any
> e-mail reply from the Polish Embassy in Tehran, and my travel arrangements
> are "a go" for Nov 24, assuming the visa comes through in time. I read the
> note about your young aunt and saw the letter from the Embassy to you. Do
> you have a fax number for them ? I have not tried that route yet.
Have any
> of the people on the "Forgotten Odyssey" chat group been to the Cemetery,
> and would they share the precise location in the city ? Given that it will
> be Eid al Fitr, the post-Ramadan holiday in Iran, when we go, we may not
> have much success about contacting officials regarding the spelling of your
> aunt's name. But we shall investigate who does take care of that cemetery.
>
Anybody want a photo of a key headstone, if feasible ?? Frankly, we are not
> sure what to expect. Maybe some broad shots of the area might be of interest
> to you or your group.
>
> Best wishes, Stephan Landis
>
> PS: I did receive a fax last year from a lady at Stanford University who
> "mined" the Hoover Institute data base and pulled out a document signed by
> my father in about 1943, when he left Russia. If he was still alive today,
> he would have been "blown away" to see such a note. My mother confirmed his
> signature. I have quite a number of letters from those days, including
> several from my grandfather, sentenced to the Arctic Russian work camps. I
> need to see his Tehran gravesite to bring the family story to closure, and
> to offer my children a sense of their past Polish heritage.
>
>
>> From: Stefan Wisniowski
>> To: Stephan Landis
>> Subject: Re: Location of Polish Cemetery, Tehran
>> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:34:18 +1100
>>
>> Stephen
>> It is in "DULAB". ?See photos at
>> http://www.aforgottenodyssey.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album10
>>
>> By the way, I have some information on three people who passed through
>> Teheran:
>> Szuszkiewicz, Antoni (son of Jan, born in 1921 in Tarnopol province)
>> Szuszkiewicz, Franciszek (son of Kazimierz , born in 1895 in Wilno
>> province)
>> Szuszkiewicz, Piotr ???(son of Jan, born in 1898 or 1900 in Lwow)
>>
>> Any relations?
>>
>> Can you do me a favour?
>> The tombstone of my aunt "KAZIMIERA WISNIOWSKA" has two errors on it: ?Her
>> name, and her birthdate. ?You can see the details on my webpage at
>> http://www.aforgottenodyssey.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=albuo11
>>
>> The trick is - who to contact regarding making a correction? ?Perhaps when
>> you are there you can figure something out...
>>
>> Let me know if you need further information or if it would be useful to
>> make contact with some people who actually were there a few months ago.....
>>
>> And by the way, have I invited you to join the Kresy-Siberia Group of
>> people in touch with this history?
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>>> From: "Stephan Landis"
>>> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:12:59 -0500
>>> To: swisniowski@...
>>> Subject: Location of Polish Cemetery, Tehran
>>>
>>> Hello, Mr. Wisniowski, I have been intermittently following the Forgotten
>>> Odyssey website, and am presently living in the United Arab Emirates. I am
>>> planning to visit Tehran later this month and wonder whether you or someone
>>> from the discussion group knows the exact location of the Polish/Catholic
>>> Cemetery in Tehran. I have not been able to get a response from the Polish
>>> Embassy in Tehran nor find its location on the Web.
>>>
>>> I will be the first in the family to visit my grandfather's grave in 60
>>> years. Any help is most appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Dr. Stephan Landis (Szuszkiewicz),
>>> Shaikh Khalifa Medical Centre,
>>> PO Box 51900,
>>> Abu Dhabi, UAE
>>>
>>> E-mail: stephan_landis@...
