Gallery – Forever in the West

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