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As you may have just heard, Yahoo is closing down all of its groups and deleting the message histories in just a few weeks: "Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user-created content on its sites. New content can no longer be uploaded after October 28, 2019. "

Here are a couple of stories explaining that:

We have over 64,000 messages in the last?18 years of Yahoo group history, which is an invaluable resource, so we are looking into ways to archive those.

Meanwhile, however, the good thing is that we moved our group's hundreds and hundreds of photo files into our Virtual Museum 10 years ago (see?).?

Fortunately, we also moved our?active discussions to Facebook a few years ago and now have about 2000 friendly and supportive members there.?The very best thing to do is to be a member of the group on its new platform at?.

Kresy-Siberia Group's official Facebook discussion forum remains dedicated to research, recognize and remember Poland’s citizens fighting for survival and freedom in eastern Poland and in forced exile during WW2.

Membership is open to all persons with an interest in the topic, who provide their contact information and abide by the group rules. All messages in our group are private and only visible to other group members, who are all screened for acceptance and all subject to our rules of conduct (see below). Group Moderators reserve the right to warn, suspend or remove anyone who is unable to respect these rules. We ask members to all contribute to our mission by: - sharing information and photos in our Virtual Museum at??

- volunteering with recording Survivor interviews, events or charity administration; - making a voluntary donation if possible of US$40/year (or more if able) to help fund our costs at

Group rules from the admins

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Stay on the topic of the group mission

This group is dedicated to research, recognize and remember Poland’s citizens fighting for survival and freedom in eastern Poland and in forced exile during the Second World War

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Strive to avoid disparaging other group members

Comment on the issue not the person. While we should debate issues openly, we are a friendly and supportive group with common goals not a debating society where we try to score points to win arguments

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Do not comment on current politics

While politics related to our history or its remembrance are fine, comments on current politics (especially not at all related to our history) can only cause totally unnecessary dissension.

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Don't make discriminatory remarks

Remarks that describe persons based on their group identity – be it sex, race, age, sexual orientation, nationality, socioeconomic status, and religion – are usually negative, hurtful and wrong

See you all at?

Stefan Wisniowski

Kresy-Siberia Group Founder (2001)

On 20 Oct 2019, at 11:32, 'R.Zawadzki' r.zawadzki@... [Kresy-Siberia] wrote:

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Thanks to Caria Tomczykowska and Gordon Black for this alert, here's some more info.

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On Friday, April 10, 2009 1:19 PM, fpleszak <frank@...> wrote:

I suspect many of you will already have seen these, but for those that haven't, there are some great photos of Anders Army in Russia, Iraq, Egypt, Italy, France, and the UK and lots of Poland.



Frank
(Manchester, UK)

On 9 Mar 2018, at 9:06 am, Lech sandservice@... [Kresy-Siberia] <Kresy-Siberia@...> wrote:

Thank you for this information.
If only I had known of this camp before I retired, as I travelled to Kirkcaldy many times on work visits, and stayed in the area, so could have a "nose"

Very interesting.

Regards

Lech Kluk

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On Thursday, 8 March 2018 jasonnellyer2871 <Kresy-Siberia@...> wrote:

Hi Julie

This might interest you, the "Kirkcaldy Distribution Camp" is actually this:?

Regards

Jason

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On 4 Mar 2018, at 9:04 am, 'Lawrence' geoff.lawrence9@... [Kresy-Siberia] <Kresy-Siberia@...> wrote:

Sybirak Starszy Sier?ant Walerian Julian Stopnicki, after being released from a Soviet prison (Starobielsk) was assigned to an Agricultural Battalion on 12th January 1942 in D?yzak in Uzbekistan prior to evacuation; we are not sure if it was in March or April 1942. He was certainly at Pahlavi by early May 1942, where he met his daughter (my sister) Krystyna for the last time. He arrived in Scotland at the Kirkcaldy Polish Army Distribution Camp on 17th October 1942 (via the Near East and Capetown) and was assigned to the 1st Armoured Corps of the 1st Polish Armoured Division. But he was mentally unfit and was assigned to various support brigades (and including both working and treatment? at the Edinburgh Polish Military Hospital, before being invalided out of the Army (also after an arrest for theft) in December 1944. He returned to Szczecin at the end of 1945, working for the Communist Government in re-assigning German farms to Polish family displaced from Eastern Poland. He lived with my mother, his second wife (although he wasn’t divorced, and his first wife had also escaped the USSR and arrived in the UK with my sister Krystyna in 1950, after years at Tengeru) in a British Liaison Mission monitoring the displacement of Germans from Western Poland, in Szczecin. We are still investigating what Walerian did in London in 1945. His marriage certificate to my Mum in October 1945 declared that he worked at the Polish Embassy, which would have been the Soviet one at the time, but, along with the lie about being divorced and ten years younger than reality, maybe this was also a lie.

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Is this a help to your studies? Anything else you discover about my father would be wonderful.

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Best regards

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Julia Stopnicka-Lawrence

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