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Dear Group Members, Apparently, the entire Yahoo organization has been hacked and over 500 million accounts have been "compromised" (data stolen). As a precaution, we have frozen the Kresy-Siberia Yahoo Group, putting all new comments on screening and moderation. We recommend that you make any new posts be made on the FaceBook version of the Kresy-Siberia Group, which is a closed and private group with messages only seen by members, who are all by approval only. https://www.facebook.com/groups/KresySiberiaGroup Regards, Stefan Wisniowski Group Founder

Drogi Polacy and friends of Poland, On behalf of the Canadian Air Force Officer's Association and the Polish Consulate, you are cordially invited to the annual commemoration of the Battle of Britain at the RAF Memorial Garden in Stanley Park {Vancouver, BC} this Sunday at 11:30am. Medals are appropriate to be worn by all veterans. The ceremony will include the unveiling of a plaque honouring the Polish pilots who flew in the battle. In all Commonwealth nations, Sept. 15th is recognized as Battle of Britain Day. Pozdrawiam z Seattle, USA-- Antek Haapasaari-OLPINSKI www.305squadron.com Begin forwarded message:

The Kresy-Siberia Group was founded in Sydney, Australia on 17 September 2001, on the 62nd anniversary of the 1939 invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union, which together with its ally Nazi Germany, perpetrated the 4th Partition of Poland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grupa Kresy-Syberia zosta?a za?o?ona w dniu 17 wrze?nia 2001r., dniem 62-ej rocznicy napa?ci Zwi?zku Radzieckiego na Polsk?, którym wykona?a IV rozbiór Polski, razem z ich sprzymierzeńcami, Niemcami Hitlerowskimi. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you come over to join us on Facebook yet? Over 1000 members now :) Security Check Required Security Check Required View on www.facebook.com Preview by Yahoo All the best, Stefan Wisniowski Sydney

"Dekalog" was a miniseries for Polish television in 1988, set in late-Communist Poland and loosely based on the Ten Commandments. It was made by Krzysztof Kie?lowski, who also adapted some of them for theatrical release. The series has now been re-mastered and will go into limited release in the United States. (Three theaters on September 2, more later, but probably still a small number, since the whole thing must run nearly ten hours.) It will also be released as a DVD collection by Criterion, including additional material such as the two movie versions.l It gets a rave review in the Wall Street Journal today (September 1). The WSJ has a paywall, but you may be able to read the review by Googling the exact title: ‘Dekalog’: Where Biblical Law and Polish Cinematography Meet -- Dan Ford USA

Aug 29/16 Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich!:- Here is an interesting article about us published today in the Times of Israel:- State burial in Poland for WWII heroes slain by communists with text copied below. Some points:- (1) It's quite telling that we get this news from "foreign" (ie non-Polish) newspapers, what would we do without all the "foreigners" (can you say "Norman Davies" et al) who are so interested in helping us to recover our own history. (2) It describes how the Communists systematically erased the soldiers of the Second Republic from Polish history books for decades and here we are already 26 years after the fall of Communism in 1990 and Poland is only very grudgingly and slowly starting to "remember" our parents. (3) I really get irritated a lot by mainland Poles who like to characterize Polish soldiers of the free Polish forces of the West who "chose" to leave Poland during the war and fight in foreign armies and then further "chose" to "resettle" there. Likewise many AK soldiers also fled from Communist Poland after 1945 when they realized which way things were going and the Communists again portrayed this as some sort of "choice". The reality is that Polish exiles of WW2 had only two "choices":- the Soviet Gulag or the Western "gulag" created for them by Poland's erstwhile "allies":- they did the best they could and chose the less bitter option and also often "chose" life in exile over death by execution but it all tasted very bad regardless. Unfortunately there are still a great many mainland Poles who grew up during the Communist era who keep repeating the Communist lie about our parents "choosing" to "resettle" outside of Poland after 1945 and it is so very frustrating to listen to this nonsense. The reality is that we knew far more about Communist Poland than they ever knew about us and we their children have actually fully inherited the traditions of the Second Republic unlike them who have been corrupted by Communism (although they did get most of the real-estate minus the traditions) but they continue to maintain an attitude that they are the "real" Poles and that we are just a bunch of "foreigners" of distant Polish ancestry:- sometimes I feel like shoving "Trail of Hope / Szlak Nadziej" (opened to any page at random) in their faces to help them understand things a bit better and I really wish that someone would make a Polish television "special" to better educate the Polish public about this history but unfortunately that will not happen in "Kaczpolska" with its addiction to Communist-style "politics of memory":- we still do not seem to fit into their preferred historical narrative. (4) I see that Mr Duda seems to have a fetish for Polish soldiers who die in combat screaming "Long Live Poland!" which seems to be the Polish Communist version of the "Za Stalina!" reputedly screamed by Red Army soldiers dying in battle:- obviously Mr Duda has spent his childhood wallowing in far too much Communist propaganda! In reality Polish soldiers of the Second Republic were not political fanatics of the Third Republic:- they were honest citizen-soldiers of the Second Republic who were doing their duty even though they knew that often that duty was suicidal and most of them did not really scream anything when they went down although apparently there are credible eye-witness accounts at Danuta Siedzikowna did say that to her Polish-Communist executioners. (5) It is good to see that the Polish government is now trying to recover all this lost Polish history so long suppressed by the Communists but I really wish that they could be less political and more non-partisan about it:- a lot of that history is not really "history" for my generation, it was very much part of childhood for many of us as we listened to the veterans ceaselessly talk about it and sometimes it could be so very overwhelming for a small child to listen to it and I really would like them to be a bit more sensitive to the children of the survivors in their remembrances. I would also like them to devote more public resources to the Polish Red Cross

Hello Eve-Marie Thanks for your offer. Unfortunately we did not get sufficient numbers to undertake this project and it has been shelved for the time being. Regards Chris.....

Thank you Lenarda - the 9 characters represent each of the stages of the Kresy-Siberia experience. For an explanation of the characters and to learn more about the histories, visit www.kresy-siberia.org/galleries/ PS The new web address for the Conference is www.GenerationsRemember.org ______________________________________________________________________________ Stefan Wi?niowski Kresy-Siberia Foundation President ~ Prezes Fundacji Kresy–Syberia Virtual Museum ~ Wirtualne Muzeum: www.Kresy-Siberia.org Discussion group ~ Grupa dyskusyjna: www.facebook.com/groups/KresySiberiaGroup//

Great looking poster, very precise, honouring all those who went through this terror. Regards Lenarda from Sydney Australia

A Polish language version will be online soon Tim Bucknall Congleton UK

Hi, I would certainly be interested in helping with this work and as a former archive clerk at a big bank here in Toronto I do have considerable experience with this type of work and being semi-retired I certainly have lots of time for it! Unfortunately I'm on a very limited income so travelling to London and staying there etc is basically impossible for me. One thing they could do would be to get local volunteers to simply scan the documents into digital form and then make these available to global volunteers who can read them and classify them correctly by keyword and do the cataloguing online. Incidentally, I was born in a Commonwealth state (ie Canada) prior to 1983 so apparently I'm allowed to live and work in Britain without a visa so if I found a paying job there I could do the cataloguing in situ in my spare time:- does anyone there need a dotty secretary-receptionist with a wicked sense of sly humor (can you say "irreverent"?) who also speaks the "Queen's English" with a flawless near-Midwest accent (for some reason everyone always thinks I'm from Chicago including people from Chicago!). Cheers!

Hello, a good place to get help in typing exclusively Polish literals is at http://polish.typeit.org/ :- you just type in the English characters as usual but use the extra keyboard on top to type the desired literals and then you can copy and paste your typed phrase elsewhere although it does help greatly if you do know some Polish so that you can tell the difference between proper Polish and jibberish. I have only "kitchen" Polish but that at least allows me to detect improper Polish spelling and grammar most of the time:- for example your father's name somewhere got Anglicized as "Wozniakowski" from the original "Wo?niakowski" and that is perhaps how you grew up pronouncing it but my "kitchen" Polish is enough to tell me that is incorrect and to look for the correct Polish spelling:- ie the Anglicized form feels very awkward if you palatize (soften) the "n" as even rudimentary Polish-speakers will invariably do so I would know that the "z" must be palatized too and that form would have a Polish literal of its own in the form of "?":- please try learning a bit of basic Polish, it's really not that difficult despite outward appearances! Another useful tool is the Google Translator which you can find by simply Google-searching (surprise!) " Google translator " :- however this translator is far from perfect and again if you know some Polish it does help a lot in using it so even "kitchen" Polish will help greatly. However you can cut and paste Polish phrases into the translator to get their equivalents in English or other emigre languages such as Portuguese and so on (and yes we do speak a lot of languages among us, we are very multilingual here!). Cheers!

Hi Pawel Thank you so much for your help. Not speaking Polish is a big problem for me. Best wishes Chris

Hello Chris, I see there is a problem with Polish letters. You should use ? instead of Z, the system doesn't show the names if you don't use proper letters. I've entered Wo?niakowski, but there are no Boles?aw there. Was he killed during the Warsaw Rising? Please remember the database is still not closed. I didn't find the aunt of my partner, but she knows her aunt was killed there. There are number of Wo?niakowskis there. You can find them in two ways: 1. Copy from this email WO?NIAKOWSKI and paste it in the field SZUKAJ and press the arrow on the right (you can do the same with WO?NIAKOWSKA to find women) or 2. press any numbers on the bottom of the site to move to the page and just change the number in the address bar for 1779 (I put the screen in attachment). For all who don't know Polish the columns Nazwisko (Family Name), Imi? (Name), Data ur. (Date of birth), Zawód (Proffesion), Adres (Address), Data ?mierci (date of death), Miejsce ?mierci (Place of death). Best Regards Pawel Kossowski W dniu .08.2016 o 19:03 christine rhodes chris.rhodes12@... [Kresy-Siberia] pisze: -- U?ywam klienta poczty Opera Mail: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Hi Pawel Thank you for the information it's a wonderful thing to have. I am a non speaker or writer of Polish. My fathers name was Boleslaw Wozniakowski. I looked on the the website and could find Wozniak but no Wozniakowski. Will I need to view all pages to find him or perhaps you would be kind enough to tell me where in the Polish alphabet Wozniakowski is? Many thanks Chris

Pawel, dziekuje Bardzo, thank you very much. My Polish is limited, but following your instructions I found my father’s Jarkiewicz family from Warsaw and now understand why he was so upset after WWII, because he was captured in the first battle and was held in Stalag for rest of war, surviving the Death March, then after Capitulation found out his family were able to fight, when he could do nothing, with many being killed. I wish I knew this when he was alive, because he felt so guilty being spared and being in the Calvary, he was trained to defend his country. Wszystkie Nazwisko Imi? Data ur. Zawód Adres Data ?mierci Miejsce ?mierci Jarkiewicz Edward ok. 1925 - - 13.08.1944 Warszawa-Mokotów + Jarkiewicz Franciszek 04.10.1889 elektrotechnik Karolkowa 60, Warszawa 07.08.1944 zag. wyszed? z domu + Jarkiewicz Jan 1912 - Marii Kazimiery 19, Warszawa 14.09.1944 Warszawa-Marymont - egzekucja + Jarkiewicz Jerzy 06.07.1924 uczeń Zielna 19, Warszawa - - + Jarkiewicz Zenon 1916 - Grabów - Regards, Lenarda from Sydney, Australia

Hello, This is brand new database available on Warsaw Rising Museum site http://www.1944.pl/ofiary-cywilne.html unfortunately it is only in Polish. For those who don't know Polish - it is enough to enter family name where SZUKAJ is written. Best Regards Pawel Kossowski

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Kresy-Siberia is looking for some volunteers and here’s why. During an interesting and informative visit to the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum (PISM) in May 2014 I was told their archive had many documents that were still un-catalogued. With this in mind I recently proposed to Kresy-Siberia’s executive board the idea of approaching PISM to have active Kresy-Siberia members voluntarily help catalogue these unidentified documents. For the moment I am posting this only to get an idea of numbers who would be interested in participating in such an effort. I will add that this is open to everyone and not exclusive to UK members. Once these documents are catalogued the museum would have a better sense of what they have which will provide future academics, historians and the public with a rich source of research material. Now to be clear this is ‘only cataloguing’ which is a careful and respectful inspection and identification of rare irreplaceable documents, not a translation of their contents. I have no idea as to how much is un-catalogued or how long such a project would take, it would likely be a progressive task. Was asked if I would coordinate the project and gladly accepted. Once I have a better sense of numbers I will confer with the executive board after which PISM will be approached with an offer, if they accept plans can then be formulated. That being said please post or message me if you are interested. Chris Wroblewski

Chris, how could a guy who doesnt speak a lick of polish help? Mark T. Canada

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