Gallery – "Amnesty" for the innocent
Grandfathers notarised Death Certificate
Jan Zak’s notarised Death Certificate notified by Franciszka Zak to the Polish Garrison Chaplain in Tehran 1942.
Iran
Teheran
Russian Amnesty Database Records (31/08/41) of what they called ‘Special Settlement’ areas basically their Gulag Labour Camps.
Russian Amnesty Database Records (31/08/41) of what they called ‘Special Settlement’ areas basically their Gulag Labour Camps.
Jan Zak 1882-1942 & Aniela Zak 1899-1942 (Arrived in the region 23/02/40)
Jan Zak 1882-1942
Jan Zak 1882-1942 my maternal Grandfather, he is one of 17 Zaks (of 128 listed on IPN Records) of my family that were associated with the Exile of Poles to Siberia.
Ipn File - Franciszeka Witek nee Zak 1921-1973
Franciszeka Zak - Exile to Siencybino Archangel
LAC Ewald ( Edward ) Wawrzyniak
He was in the Polish Airforce in Poznan, then was captured by the Russians and sent to Riowne camp, were he spent 2 years, He joined Anders Army in Totskoye , then to Persia and finally to England He landed in Blackpool in July 1942 his service number was703650 Polish Airforce in England . He was Electrician with ground crew in 304 Squadron then 302 with whom he stayed with in Europe till the end of the war