Gallery – Interwar Borderlands
The inside cover of Adam Krystman’s prayer book
This prayerbook remained in Adam's possession during his imprisonment in the USRR, his release and travels to Isfahan, Iran and finally arriving with him in New Zealand.
Jean Dravitzky
Before WWII
Poland
Page showing the origin of the prayerbook
The origins of Adam Krystman's prayerbook. Printed by J. Steinbrenera. Made in Czestochowa.
Jean Dravitzky
Before WWII
Poland
Page showing the origin of the prayerbook
The origins of Adam Krystman's prayerbook. Printed by J. Steinbrenera. Made in Czestochowa.
Jean Dravitzky
Before WWII
Poland
Cover of Adam Krystman’s prayer book
This prayerbook remained in Adam's possession during his imprisonment in the USRR, his release and travels to Isfahan, Iran and finally arriving with him in New Zealand.
Jean Dravitzky
Before WWII
Poland
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef
Regina Miłaszewicz
Before WWII
Poland
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef
Regina Miłaszewicz
Before WWII
Poland
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Waclaw and Regina
Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Waclaw and Regina
Regina Miłaszewicz
Before WWII
Poland
Waniow village overlaid with family home locations
Waniow village, showing locations of families. Many thanks to the late Mrs Gawlik for family names and positions.
Elizabeth Taylor
Before WWII
Poland
Waniow village overlaid with family home locations
Waniow village, showing locations of families. Many thanks to the late Mrs Gawlik for family names and positions.
Elizabeth Taylor
Before WWII
Poland
Strychanki – Waniow
Village of Waniow - Polish Kolonja settlement, 1936
Elizabeth Taylor
Before WWII
Poland
Strychanki – Waniow
Village of Waniow - Polish Kolonja settlement, 1936
Elizabeth Taylor
Before WWII
Poland
Map of Waniow, Belz & Ostrow
1936 map
Elizabeth Taylor
Before WWII
Poland
Belz, Waniow, Ostrow, Lwow
Policemen in Wysokie Litewskie
The photograph was taken in Wysokie Litewskie, Kresy in the winter of 1938/1939. Tomasz Wojtkowiak is on the left (the uncle of Wanda Troman and brother of Polish Navy veteran Jozef Wojtkowiak). Tomasz Wojtkowiak was born on 17 November 1910 in Nekla in the province of Poznan. In 1939 he was a Policeman in Wysokie Litwskie in the Eastern Borderlands. When the Soviets invaded he was arrested and murdered in 1940 in Miednoye.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
September 1939 Campaign
Kresy Policeman
Wanda Troman's uncle Tomasz Wojtkowiak (brother of Jozef who served in Polish Navy), in 1937 on his way to Wrzesnia near Poznan. He was born in Nekla near Poznan. In 1939 Tomasz was serving in the Polish State Police Force in Wysokie Litewskie when he was captured by the Soviets and was later executed in the Katyn Massacres in Miednoye, Spring 1940.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
Kresy Policeman Tomasz Wojtkowiak
Wanda Troman's uncle Tomasz Wojtkowiak (brother of Jozef who served in Polish Navy). He was born in Nekla near Poznan. In 1939 Tomasz was serving in the Polish State Police Force in Wysokie Litewskie when he was captured by the Soviets and later executed in the Katyn Massacres in the Spring of 1940 in Miednoye. This photograph of Tomasz was taken in Wrzesnia by the Photo Studio of Mr. Wlosik at number 1 Zamkowa Street in 1938. Tomasz was there on holiday. Normally he was serving in Wysokie Litewskie, where the Commander was Sergeant Sidoruk.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
September 1939 Campaign
Kresy Policemen
Wanda Troman's uncle Tomasz Wojtkowiak (brother of Jozef who served in Polish Navy), top left,with Policemen from Kresy. Tomasz served in Wysokie Litewskie. Photograph taken in 1938/39. He perished in the POW camps in Russia after the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie, Kresy, Litwa
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy, 1933
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy, 1933
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Gydnia
Polish navy
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy, 1933
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy, 1933
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Gydnia
Polish navy
Jozef Wojtkowiak Cowes, 1937
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy at The Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. Jozef was in Cowes in 1937 as a commissioner of the building of ORP Blyskawica. ORP Błyskawica, the second of two Grom-class destroyers, was built for the Polish Navy by J. Samuel White, Cowes in 1935–37. The name means Lightning. The two Groms were some of the most heavily armed and fastest destroyers on the seas before World War II.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
United Kingdom
Cowes, Isle of White
Polish navy
Jozef Wojtkowiak Cowes, 1937
Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy at The Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. Jozef was in Cowes in 1937 as a commissioner of the building of ORP Blyskawica. ORP Błyskawica, the second of two Grom-class destroyers, was built for the Polish Navy by J. Samuel White, Cowes in 1935–37. The name means Lightning. The two Groms were some of the most heavily armed and fastest destroyers on the seas before World War II.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
United Kingdom
Cowes, Isle of White
Polish navy
Admiral Czernicki 1929
Rear Admiral Xawery Czernicki of the Polish Navy (16 Oct 1882 – May 1940 in Katyn). He was born in Giedejki, the district of Oszmian, the son of Edward and Teresa Bohuszewicz. Wanda's father Jozef Wojtkowiak worked with him (in photo), under his command, in France, during the construction of the first Polish destroyers and submarines in France. There is book in Polish entitled “Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki”, published in Gdynia in 2001.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
France
Polish navy
Admiral Czernicki 1929
Rear Admiral Xawery Czernicki of the Polish Navy (16 Oct 1882 – May 1940 in Katyn). He was born in Giedejki, the district of Oszmian, the son of Edward and Teresa Bohuszewicz. Wanda's father Jozef Wojtkowiak worked with him (in photo), under his command, in France, during the construction of the first Polish destroyers and submarines in France. There is book in Polish entitled “Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki”, published in Gdynia in 2001.
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
France
Polish navy
Jozef Wojtkowiak
Polish Navy in 1933
Wanda Troman
Before WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Stanislaw Pelc and family – Haczow, Rzeszow
At family home in Haczow, Rzeszow where Stanislaw was born. Stanislaw is standing with his sisters either side of him. In the front row is his wife Stanislawa Pelc (nee Szuba), his mother Aniela Pelc holding his daughter Janina and his sister-in-law with her daughter.
Wanda Ellis (nee Pelc)
Before WWII
Poland
Wies Haczów, Rzeszow
Stanislaw Pelc and family – Haczow, Rzeszow
At family home in Haczow, Rzeszow where Stanislaw was born. Stanislaw is standing with his sisters either side of him. In the front row is his wife Stanislawa Pelc (nee Szuba), his mother Aniela Pelc holding his daughter Janina and his sister-in-law with her daughter.
Wanda Ellis (nee Pelc)
Before WWII
Poland
Wies Haczów, Rzeszow
Stanislaw & Stanislawa Pelc and daughter Janina
Stanislaw had this photo in his pocket all through the Polish-Bolshevik war (written on the back is: 39 p.p. pluton pacerny, Lwowski and information on his father etc.)
Wanda Ellis (nee Pelc)
Before WWII
Poland
Florentyna
Wanda’s mother, Florentyna Szozda, aged about 17, before her marriage
Wanda Gillon
Before WWII
Poland
Skalat
Florentyna
Wanda’s mother, Florentyna Szozda, aged about 17, before her marriage
Wanda Gillon
Before WWII
Poland
Skalat
Florentyna and Stanislawa
Wanda’s mother, Florentyna (right) age about 17, and her sister Stanisława (Stacha), age about 19, Poland.
Wanda Gillon
Before WWII
Poland
Skalat
Florentyna and Stanislawa
Wanda’s mother, Florentyna (right) age about 17, and her sister Stanisława (Stacha), age about 19, Poland.
Wanda Gillon
Before WWII
Poland
Skalat