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开云体育Dearest Karen, this is so tragically sad, all the years lost, all the years of anguish, but you never gave up, ?they are together now in Heaven and you have a thread. ? This is heartbreaking news for you, yet wonderful at the same time, thank you for sharing. ? Yesterday randomly going through my Heritage Site, found another Jarkiewicz with the same grandparents as me, which I only discovered their names after the death of my brother last year ?2015 and my father’s Death Certificate from 1984, that my brother was holding of my dad, was passed over to me by his widow, who is now no longer wanting to be connected with the Polish side. ? I found the person in charge of that family tree, ?wrote to them, saying you have the same grandparents as me, are you related? ?Not only did I get a reply but it was in English from Poland and Yes, I have now connected first time in my 65 years of age, with my father’s side of the family and told that they knew there was a cousin in Australia, but because my parents divorced, ?communication was non-existent and as a child I could do nothing, until now, after my mother’s death in January, 2016.? ? Yesterday I had my children with me for my Birthday and was connected for the first time, with my cousins, on my father’s side in Poland.?? The Granddaughter of my father’s brother, called me Aunty, this felt so strange. ? Regards Lenarda, Sydney, Australia ? ? ? From: Kresy-Siberia@... [mailto:Kresy-Siberia@...]
Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2016 11:36 PM To: Kresy-Siberia@... Subject: [Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] Family Searches ? ? Dear Members ? 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!!! ? 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!? ? Regards Karen Geffroy (née Nikiel) ?
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