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. |
Tags
- orphanage
- Polish Officer
- USSR
Language:
Polish
Created By:
Shelley Upton
Related Wall of Tribute Record: 118858
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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 |