Gallery – Forever in the West
Polish Youth Club Membership Card – Wellington
Polish Youth Club Membership Card – Wellington
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Lublin Polish Dance Group – Pahiatua 50th Anniversary
Two Polish girls with their twin Kiwi husbands, who were part of the Lublin Polish dance group, at the 50th anniversary celebrations in Pahiatua. (l-r): Peter and Bella Jones (Przychodźko), Paul and Adela Jones (Wypych)
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Lublin Polish Dance Group – Pahiatua 50th Anniversary
Two Polish girls with their twin Kiwi husbands, who were part of the Lublin Polish dance group, at the 50th anniversary celebrations in Pahiatua. (l-r): Peter and Bella Jones (Przychodźko), Paul and Adela Jones (Wypych)
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Danusia Trask with Children in National Costume
Danusia Trask (daughter of Dioniza Choroś nee Gradzik) with her children Tomek (left) and Zosia (right) dressed in Polish national costume.
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Danusia Trask with Children in National Costume
Danusia Trask (daughter of Dioniza Choroś nee Gradzik) with her children Tomek (left) and Zosia (right) dressed in Polish national costume.
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Ursuline Sisters Farewell, Wellington 1958
St. Anne's Hall, Newtown, Wellington, 9 March 1958. The Ursuline Sisters are farewelled and thanked for their years of dedication and service in the Polish Boys' and Girls' Hostels in Wellington before their recall to Poland. The Sisters are (l-r) Augustyna Sobczak, Imelda Tobolska, Marcina Maślak, Bernarda Brennan and Monika Alexandrowicz
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Ursuline Sisters Farewell, Wellington 1958
St. Anne's Hall, Newtown, Wellington, 9 March 1958. The Ursuline Sisters are farewelled and thanked for their years of dedication and service in the Polish Boys' and Girls' Hostels in Wellington before their recall to Poland. The Sisters are (l-r) Augustyna Sobczak, Imelda Tobolska, Marcina Maślak, Bernarda Brennan and Monika Alexandrowicz
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Polish Boys’ Hostel – Island Bay, Wellington
A Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Polish Boys' Hostel
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Polish Boys’ Hostel – Island Bay, Wellington
A Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Polish Boys' Hostel
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Pahiatua Polish Jubilee Committee 1994
The Pahiatua Polish Jubilee Committee on the porch of the Pahiatua Museum, 17 September 1994. The museum features many photos of the Polish community and the scale model of the camp. Standing (l-r): Józef Zawada, Helena Wypych (Chwieduk), Dorothy Ropiha, Elaine Perry, Marge Bentley, Jean Eddie, Don Selby, Alistair MacDougall, John Burns Sitting (l-r): Eugeniusz Szadkowski, Piotr Przychodźko
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Pahiatua
Pahiatua Polish Jubilee Committee 1994
The Pahiatua Polish Jubilee Committee on the porch of the Pahiatua Museum, 17 September 1994. The museum features many photos of the Polish community and the scale model of the camp. Standing (l-r): Józef Zawada, Helena Wypych (Chwieduk), Dorothy Ropiha, Elaine Perry, Marge Bentley, Jean Eddie, Don Selby, Alistair MacDougall, John Burns Sitting (l-r): Eugeniusz Szadkowski, Piotr Przychodźko
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Pahiatua
Monsignor Arthur McRae – Pahiatua 10th Anniversary
Monsignor Arthur McRae addresses the 10th anniversary gathering of the Polish Children's arrival in New Zealand at the Polish Girls' Hostel in Lyall Bay, Wellington, in 1955 (the children arrived on 1 November 1944). To his right is Stefania Sondej (Manterys)
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Wellington
Jan and Valerie Roy-Wojciechowski
Enjoying retirement, Jan and Valerie Roy-Wojciechowski on board their yacht in Auckland Harbour.
New Zealand's First Refugees Pahiatua's Polish Children Polish Children's Reunion Committee 2004 0-476-00739-9
After WWII
New Zealand
Auckland
Wladyslaw Pacewicz after WW2
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz. He was deported to USSR and served in the Polish Navy. He settled in Scotland after the War.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz at the grave of his brother, Jozef
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in the 1990s at the grave of his brother Jozef in Krosno Poland. They were separated in April 1940 when Wladek was deported to Kazahstan with his mother and sister. Their father was killed in Katyn. Jozef escaped deportation, later to be conscripted into the Red Army. He remained in Poland after the War.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Krosno
Wladyslaw Pacewicz at the grave of his brother, Jozef
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in the 1990s at the grave of his brother Jozef in Krosno Poland. They were separated in April 1940 when Wladek was deported to Kazahstan with his mother and sister. Their father was killed in Katyn. Jozef escaped deportation, later to be conscripted into the Red Army. He remained in Poland after the War.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Krosno
Wladyslaw Pacewicz in Gdansk
Wladek Pacewicz in the 1990s at the Polish Navy museum in Gdansk. Wladek served in the Polish Navy from 1942 after escaping the USSR with Anders Army. He had always wanted to visit Westerplatte, where the first shots of WW2 were fired.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Gdansk
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz in Gdansk
Wladek Pacewicz in the 1990s at the Polish Navy museum in Gdansk. Wladek served in the Polish Navy from 1942 after escaping the USSR with Anders Army. He had always wanted to visit Westerplatte, where the first shots of WW2 were fired.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Gdansk
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz reunited with Stanislaw Paradowski
This photograph was taken in the early 1990s when my father Wladek was reunited with his uncle Staszek. They had not seen each other since my father was a child in Wołyn. Wladek was deported from Rowne to Siberia in April 1940 and after release with Anders Army joined the Polish Navy, settling in Scotland after the War. Staszek, from Krzemieniec (my father's mother's brother) fought in the September 1939 campaign in the 43 Pułk Piechoty in Dubno. In 1944 he was enlisted in the 1st Polish Army (Berling's Army under Soviet command). He fought right through the campaign and the Battle of Berlin and was highly decorated for bravery. In 1946 he was "repatriated" with his family (his wife and children chased from their home by UPA) to Legnića in Silesia.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Ruja, Silesia
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz reunited with Stanislaw Paradowski
This photograph was taken in the early 1990s when my father Wladek was reunited with his uncle Staszek. They had not seen each other since my father was a child in Wołyn. Wladek was deported from Rowne to Siberia in April 1940 and after release with Anders Army joined the Polish Navy, settling in Scotland after the War. Staszek, from Krzemieniec (my father's mother's brother) fought in the September 1939 campaign in the 43 Pułk Piechoty in Dubno. In 1944 he was enlisted in the 1st Polish Army (Berling's Army under Soviet command). He fought right through the campaign and the Battle of Berlin and was highly decorated for bravery. In 1946 he was "repatriated" with his family (his wife and children chased from their home by UPA) to Legnića in Silesia.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Ruja, Silesia
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz after WW2
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in Scotland. He was deported to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940 as an 11 year old. After release with Anders Army he served in the Polish Navy as a cook, settling in Scotland after the war.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Scotland
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz after WW2
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in Scotland. He was deported to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940 as an 11 year old. After release with Anders Army he served in the Polish Navy as a cook, settling in Scotland after the war.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Scotland
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz after WW2
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in Scotland. He was deported to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940 as an 11 year old. After release with Anders Army he served in the Polish Navy, settling in Scotland after the war.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Scotland
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in the Polish Navy. He volunteered as a 13 year old in USSR and served from 1942 - 1945 on ORP Piorun and ORP Garland. This photograph was taken sometime after the war. Wladyslaw was demobbed from the Navy in 1947 and settled in Scotland.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Polish navy
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
My father Wladyslaw Pacewicz in the Polish Navy. He volunteered as a 13 year old in USSR and served from 1942 - 1945 on ORP Piorun and ORP Garland. This photograph was taken sometime after the war. Wladyslaw was demobbed from the Navy in 1947 and settled in Scotland.
Wladyslaw Pacewicz
After WWII
United Kingdom
Polish navy
Jozef and mother Julia Pacewicz 1963
My uncle Jozef "Jozio" and his mother Julia Pacewicz in Poland 10th July 1963. Jozef missed the deportation of his family to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940. He tried to join them on the wagons at Rowne station but was held back by Red Army soldiers. He fled to family in Krzemieniec and in early 1945 was drafted into the 8th Dresden Infantry Division of the Polish People's Army. He remained in Poland after the war, settling in Krosno. His mother Julia Pacewicz (nee Paradowska - my grandmother) was deported to USSR with her two remaining children. After release she was a refugee in Koja until 1949. She settled in Great Britain. This photograph was taken on a visit to her son in Poland in 1963.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Julia and Jozef Pacewicz reunited
On a visit to Poland after the war Julia Pacewicz (middle) is reunited with her son Jozef Pacewicz. On the far left is Jozef's wife, Jadwiga. Julia and Jozef were separated in April 1940 when Julia and her other two children Wladyslaw and Jadzia were deported to Kazakhstan. They eventually settled in the UK after the war. Jozef missed the arrests in Rowne on 13th April 1940. He was 17 years old. He made his way to the station and found his family waiting to be deported in the cattle wagons. The Red Soldier guards would not let him join his family. He fled to family in Krzemieniec and in 1944 joined the Polish People's Army, settling with wife Jadwiga in Krosno after the war.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Polish Kosciuszko Division (Gen. Berling)
Paradowska sisters after the war
My babcia Julia Pacewicz (nee Paradowska) far right reunited with her sister Manya on the left after the war in Poland. They were from Krzemieniec, Wołyn. Julia was deported to Kazakhstan was exiled in the West. Manya was forcibly repatriated from Krzemieniec to Western Poland in 1946.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Legnića
Paradowski’s after the war
Paradowski siblings reunited in Poland approx 1961. From left to right: Stanisław Paradowski, sister Manya Paradowska, sister Julia Pacewicz (nee Paradowska), Tekla Paradowska (Stanisław's wife, nee Dobrowolska) and Jozef Pacewicz (Julia's son). The Paradowski's were from Krzemieniec. They were separated when Julia was deported to Kazakhstan with two of her children in 1940. She remained exiled in the UK and this was the first time she was reunited with her family, including her son Jozef who remained in Poland.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland
Paradowski’s after the war
Paradowski siblings reunited in Poland approx 1961. Seated in the middle from left to right: Manya Paradowska, sister Julia Pacewicz (nee Paradowska), Tekla Paradowska (nee Dobrowolska). Standing behind from left to right: Helena Nawicki and husband (daughter of Stanisław and Tekla Paradowski), Stanisław Paradowski (with moustache), Jozef Pacewicz (Julia's son), Marysia and husband (Helena's sister). Children at the bottom are Staszek and Tekla's grandchildren. They were separated when Julia was deported to Kazakhstan with two of her children in 1940. She remained exiled in the UK and this was the first time she was reunited with her family, including her son Jozef who remained in Poland.
Anna Pacewicz
After WWII
Poland