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Thank you for this information. Sadly the Helena
NIKIELS's mentioned would be too young. I have estimated that my grandparents,
especially my grandmother, would most likely have been born between 1880 &
1890.
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This week I found a photo online of Wanda
SMIGIELSKI with her friend Halina NIKIEL, taken I think in 1943. It seems like
they had both been deported?to?Mamluckij, Smirnowka in Kazakstan. What
drew me to the 2 ladies in the photo was not only the fact that one shared the
same name as?my late grandmother, but the fact that both were from
Zdolbunow in Wolyn. My father was born in Zdolbunow in 1921 & the last known
address of the family was in the same town in 1939. Was this young Halina NIKIEL
related to my family? I would appreciate any information that K-S members may
have about these 2 young ladies. I believe Wanda was the daughter of Boleslaw
& Janina SMIGIELSKI and had siblings Waclaw & Janina. I think they
eventually ended up in a refugee camp in India?after Amnesty.
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I have attached the photo in the hope that somebody
may recognise the 2 young ladies in question.
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Regards
Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel)
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Dear Karen,
There are some information about 2 Helen Nikiel on Russian
memorial site.Both from Lvov region Have a look :
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Никель Елена Королевна??? Nikel Helene
daughter of Karol
Родилась?в 1924 г., Львовская губ., Радехов, Холупь;
поляки; образование Низш.; Проживала:?Львовская обл., Радеховский,
Холуюв.
Приговор: приб. на спецпоселение в Архангельскую обл. 11.03.40,
Верхне-Тоемский р-н, Мучная
Источник: База данных "Польские спецпереселенцы в
Архангельской обл."
Никель Елена Томашевна Nikel Helene
daughter of Tomasz
Родилась?в 1932 г., Львовская губ., Сокальский, Ромаш;
поляки; Проживала:?Львовская обл., Сокальский, Ромаш.
Приговор: приб.
на спецпоселение в Архангельскую обл. 24.02.40, Вельский р-н, Екодим
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Thank you Vincent for sharing this ,I've had no luck in 30 + yrs
?searching for my fathers family as he to was the only survivor of the
Wysocki ?family that we know of and I do lose hope every now and again
,every-ancestry site I enter comes up ?with nothing and I've just
submitted a new request with family tracing Thank you for a little more HOPE
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On Saturday,
April 9, 2016, 2:35 pm, 'Vincent' geffroy@... [Kresy-Siberia]
wrote:
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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!?
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Regards
Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel)
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