Russian then Polish orphanage in USSR
Name:
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera
Description:
Jozefa describes how she and her younger sister ended up in a Russian orphanage, after their mother and sister died in hospital. A Polish Officer found them there and took them to a Polish Orphanage, where her sister died and Jozefa became the sole survivor of her family.
Language:
Polish
Tags
- orphanage
- Polish Officer
- USSR
Created By:
Shelley Upton
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Author of Memoirs - Jozefa Kapera
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| Place of birth: Poland Tarnopolskie Podhajce |
| Military Experience , , |
| Place of residence in 1939: Poland , Tarnopolskie , Podhajce ,' Osada Szwajcaria', |
| Place of Residence after 1945 United Kingdom, Derbyshire, Chellaston DE73 6RE, |
| Deportations and repressions 26, 08, 1941, , |
| Other Wartime Circumstances , , , , , |
| Orphanages: , , Yes, FIrst a Russian, then a Polish orphanage in Samarkand, Uzbekistan |