Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Tomasz Szozda and Józefa (nėe Turańska), centre of three women; Skałat, Poland, 1937; other 2 women are unknown.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Poland 1927

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Age about 7, Poland 1933

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Wanda’s mother, Florentyna Szozda, aged about 17, before her marriage

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Sitting beside Wiesław are cousins Leszek, and Krystyna Szozda - Skalat, Poland, 1933.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Wanda’s mother, Florentyna (right) age about 17, and her sister Stanisława (Stacha), age about 19, Poland.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Age about 1 year, 1938, Poland.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Wanda, left, and twin sister Irena, age about 1 year, 1938, Poland.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

My Father was born in Wilno on May 1st 1916 son of Michal and Stephania and baptised in the church adjoining Matka Boska Ostrabramska. Prior to the war he worked in 'Vitram' glass works in Wilno as an apprentice glassblower. He was the youngest but one of 12 children (5 of whom survived to adulthood.)

Mieczyslaw Matulewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Other

Pawel & Marysia Świryd

Marisa Zammit-Charlinski

Poland

Junak Officer Cadet School

With students from the Technical school in Wilno, prior to his arrest.

Stanislaw Tarazewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

With student from the Technical school in Wilno, kayaking on the Wilia River near Wilno.

Stanislaw Tarazewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Stanislaw Tarazewicz in Wilno – July 1939

Stanislaw Tarazewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

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

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

Wanda Troman

Before WWII

Poland

Gydnia

Polish navy

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

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

Polish Navy in 1933

Wanda Troman

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

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

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

Sądowe ustanawianie Józefy Jadwykowej jako opiekunki jej małoletnich dzieci, po śmierci małżonka Stanisława.

Katarzyna Kołt

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Przyjęcie Stanisława Jadwyka wraz z rodziną do związku gminy miasta Lwowa

Katarzyna Kołt

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Karol Jastrzebski

Izabela Spero

During WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

From National Service in 13th Wilno Tatar Cavalry Regiment. Stefan Mustafa Abramowicz collection. Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones i Zofia Wierzbicka 13. Pułku Ułanów Wilno: Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones i Zofia Wierzbicka

Xenia Jacoby

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Military service in Nowa-Wilejka 1938. 13th "Tartar" Wilno Cavalry Regiment. Stefan Mustafa Abramowicz collection. Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones & Zofia Wierzbicka

Xenia Jacoby

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

National service pre WW2, 13th Wilno Tatar Cavalry Regiment. Stefan Mustafa Abramowicz collection. Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones & Zofia Wierzbicka

Xenia Jacoby

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef

Regina Miłaszewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Waclaw and Regina

Regina Miłaszewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Invalid Hospital (Rappaport) - Pre-WWII postcard

Aleksander Malczeniuk

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów, Lwowskie