Hello Linda!
Iwieniec is on a different map. These cards on 1926 year.
You log on to the WIG site??- the pre-war Polish Institute of Cartography, all Kresy divided into squares. Choose your square.

You can view jn Googl maps the??place of?? your old village.

About grief ofour ancestors -?? it was a very heavy time. But time was heroic, and all who were in a meat grinder and preserved human dignity - they are heroes.

Do not worry about the plight of your father - he was in heaven. And that's where we would get - the big question.

Stan from M.

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Hello Stan,
Thank you for your response. It would be so great if you were able to see the village of Bojarszczyzna. Looking at your map, I couldn't find Iwieniec?
Is the map really old. It looks like an ancient one. Are the villages still around after WWII? Is your family from Iwieniec? If so, have you had any luck finding them? This whole search is getting very interesting.
I learned that my father-in-law joined the Polish Campaign the same day that Nazi Germany attacked and invaded Poland (Sept. 1, 1939). He was captured by the Russians 17 days later and held as a POW for 2 years.
He was given amnesty then and joined the Polish Army in 1941 under British Command and served in Persia (Iran) till 1944. Then took part in the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy till 1945. He was then emigrated to Canada.
He must have had a terrible life during that period and then to never to hear or see his family for the rest of his life.
I appreciate your help.
Linda Cimachowicz
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Hi, Linda!
This village isnot far from Iwieniec, earlier it was inthis district (gmina). On the WIG map??you will find it in the upper left-hand corner.
Village stands in the way from Iwieniec to Rakow on the right side of the road.
??In March 2013??I was there (in Iwieniec), will go there again in July. If I will have a car, I can reach??this place and see if there's any village.

Stan from M.
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Thank you so much Helen and Lenarda.
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On my father-in-laws (Wladyslaw Cimachowicz) military papers it says he was born in Bojarszczyzna (I believe this is a village), the Province of Wotozyn, Nowogrodek, Poland.
I know this area is now in Belarus. Does anyone know about these regions? We're they destroyed in the war? Where would be the best place to look for birth, marriage and death certificates? Would Minsk be the best place to stay while we do our research? We have no photos or papers except his military Demobilization Certificate.
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I contacted the Minister of Defence in the UK yesterday. They do have records on him. I'm sending in a request along with the fee to receive them. That will take 6-8 weeks. This is the first success I've had in my search for my father-in-laws history. I'm very hopeful that the nice people from Kresy-Siberia will be able to help as well.
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Thank you everyone.
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Linda Cimachowicz
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Hey Ewa if you like I can post your images on the Polish section of warrelics forum. There are some very knowledgeable folks there. -Do let me know-. What I can tell you is the photo titled Egypt is a prewar photo taken in Poland. The officer's uniforms might be KOP - Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza or Border Protection Corps.

Chris Calgary

--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., Eva Dryanski <ebard55@> wrote:

Can anyone identify the uniforms in these pictures? I can identify the Polish Army uniforms,
but am uncertain of the darker colored uniforms with the round top caps that my uncles are wearing.
Please see the attachments. We think we labeled the last picture incorrectly. We believe that the
darker uniforms are either police or Reserve/KOP.
Thanks,

Ewa D., Nevada

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For what its worth in the book -General Anders and the soldiers of The Second Polish Corps- by Harvey Sarner on page 33 there is this.


'In Autumn of 1941'...'there was utter chaos when the Soviets collected trekkers and began sending them back to camps in the north. Some trekkers lived in train stations waiting for trains that would never come. Many died of hunger and exposure.'


If you like I can scan the page for you. Might also be worth contacting the author? You might try contacting the Hoover institute and ask for any depositions written by the people you mention. I've done this a few times with interesting results.

Just my 2 cents
Chris Calgary



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Dear group,

I hope that you can help me solve a mystery.

I have two eye-witness accounts of Poles in the Orenburg oblast in winter 1941. I would like to find out more information about this tragic incident.

My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz and also Sybirak Jadwiga Socha (z domu Jablonska, and first marriage surname was Raciborska) both enlisted at Tockoje in the 18th Infantry Regiment, in the 6th Infantry Division. My father enlisted on 1st December 1941. At the end of January 1942 the Division was transferred to Uzbekistan.

Both my father, and Jadwiga, recall that a convoy of 23 - 25 wagons containing Polish civilians travelling to the Polish Army in the Winter of 1942 were kept on the sidings for THREE DAYS with the doors shut, with no food and with no fuel for heating. When the NKVD officer finally opened the door to the wagon both my father and Jadwiga saw the frozen, dead bodies of women and children. One woman was holding her baby ?€" they were all frozen and dead.

Jadwiga recalls the station was CZKA???"W ?€" it was in the Orenburg Oblast (note this has since been re-named Orenburg Station).
Jadwiga recalls that she and small group of other Polish soldiers (about 6 - 7) were living near the station. The Polkownik and the small group of Polish soldiers were a sort of "welcoming committee". They were awaiting a trainload of Polish civilians being transported who were due to arrive at CZKA???"W.

Jadwiga recalls the following names who were with her in the group ?€" they included a female doctor by the name of Dr. Maria Chmurzyna, a female soldier by the name of Kama and a male soldier by the name of Wladek (or Wojtek, but she thinks Wladek ?€" we think my father Wladyslaw Pacewicz) and a Polkownik Gwozdziecki.

The group's role was to wait at the station for trainloads of Polish civilians being transported and the Polkownik couldn't understand why days were passing and this particular train had not arrived. The group was waiting to meet the train and organise food to be given out at the station. When the Russian NKVD were asked about the train, they told the Poles that the train had gone through during the night and must have been missed by the waiting Polish soldiers.

A few days later, the Polkownik was told (in confidence) by one of the Russians whom he had become friendly with that there was a train that had been re-directed to a siding about 2km before the station at CZKA???"W. The Polkownik then made enquiries and, after a while, the train was "found".

When the doors to the first wagon were opened by the Polkownik and the male soldiers, Jadwiga heard the Polkownik scream out "Oh my God" (Oj moj Boze). When Jadwiga and the remaining soldiers who were waiting behind him looked in the wagons, they saw a mass of frozen bodies.

Jadwiga vividly recalls the first body she saw was a mother holding an infant to her breast, and the mother and infant had signs of charcoal around their mouths. She said the male soldiers then ran from wagon to wagon opening the doors and the same sight of masses of dead bodies greeting them as each of the doors was opened.

Jadwiga recalls that the Polkownik officially reported the tragedy to the NKVD and his own superiors and General Anders. Jadwiga recalls the bodies were supposed to have been taken out of the wagons during the next two days.

Jadwiga and the small group of Polish soldiers were told not to speak of the incident to anyone else and definitely not to tell anybody what they had seen. Jadwiga said that within two days, the Polkownik called the small group of Polish soldiers to a meeting, told them he had been given tickets for the group by the Russian station worker who had told him about the train being on the siding. The Polkownik told them they all had to escape from CZKA???"W quickly as their lives were in danger. He told them that they were to be dressed and ready to escape; they were to wait in the dark near the station till a train that was leaving CZKA???"W in the middle of the night was almost due to depart the station at CZKA???"W, then on his signal they were to quickly get into a dark wagon. This is how they escaped with their lives.

Personally, my father recalled the incident of the frozen women and children who had not been collected in time from the station to me many years ago. It was clearly a suppressed memory and on two occasions he recalled it, crying and distressed. He did not mention anything about "escaping" or their lives being in danger.

I spoke to Jadwiga, a 99 year old Sybirak, this week regarding this incident. She still has a very good memory and remembered it vividly and was extremely upset.

Her Wall of Names profile is:

Jadwiga is convinced that Wladyslaw (my father) was one of the small group of Polish soldiers that she was part of waiting at the station. She says that is the only way he would have known about the mass of dead bodies, and she recalls a Wladek being with her group.

Jadwiga's daughter recalls her mother speaking of this tragedy at least 55 years' ago, and on many occasions since then.