There are approximately 20 million Polish people residing
worldwide outside of Poland.
There are approximately 38 million Polish people residing
in Poland.
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There are thousands of Polish people trying to find their
relatives and friends for the last 77 years that were scattered through the world
because of WW2.
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There has been little if any help from the Polish
government, all Polish private and public agencies and all countries and data
storage organization throughout the world in this effort.
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As I mentioned before this would be a simple task to
accomplish especially at this stage of technology.
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The question is “why has the Polish community been silent
on this matter” and not demanded action to help these suffering family members searching
through scraps of information ?daily for
family members?
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I suggest that all of us contact all Polish Embassy
through the world, all foreign government that we know gave refugee to the
Polish refugees and all libraries of nations involved in the WW2 effort and
request their entire database regarding the Polish refugees and current Polish population
databases. ?
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?Yes I also think
that Stefan and his Kresy-Siberia Organization should take the lead to organize
this effort.
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CONSULATES
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I am asking that all of us add to this list all libraries
that we know have databases throughout the world that might have information
that would be important to this effort.
I ask that we share OCR programs that transfer jpeg pages
into a word documents and excel type that then can be sorted for easier
searches. I ask that we transfer all PDF pages into regular word documents for
the same reason.
I have English based OCR program but I do not have a Polish
OCR program does anyone have one that can used for that purpose?
Can everyone list all important polish government officials in
this document and their e-mail addresses so all of us can contact them to help
in this effort or ask why they refuse to help in this effort.
Once we have standard word type pages each of us can have
the pages translated in Google for free. That program does not give us a
perfect translation but it is excellent tool to find our families and some
basic history about them.
Our hearts bleed for information about our relative. Poland and
all of us should do everything possible to help our people.
Julian Plowy
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