Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Irena carrying her doll

Brian Mansor

Before WWII

Poland

Drozdnie, Wołyn, Kowel

Photo shows baby Sabina with her mother, Amelia and older sister, Irena in the background.

Brian Mansor

Before WWII

Poland

Drozdnie, Wołyn, Kowel

Antoni on his horse

Brian Mansor

Before WWII

Poland

Drozdnie, Wołyn, Kowel

Antoni on his bicycle

Brian Mansor

Before WWII

Poland

Drozdnie, Wołyn, Kowel

Photo of Amelia, her mother Anna and her sister Stefania

Brian Mansor

Before WWII

Poland

Drozdnie, Wołyn, Kowel

Piotr Antoszewski

Allan Antoszewski

Before WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

From the photograph collection of Katarzyna Prociuk. Her husband was in the Army (in September 1939 he was a Captain in the 6th Pulk Strzelcow Podhalanskich). This photograph was taken in the Kresy in 1929.

Halina Prociuk

Before WWII

Poland

Maria Składan/Składon

Eduard Peach

Before WWII

Poland

Szczepan Składan/Składon

Eduard Peach

Before WWII

Poland

Janina aged 4, with her parents

Eduard Peach

Before WWII

Poland

"My heart remains in Lwów"

Zosia Biegus

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

In English "Batiar heart". Batiar was an archetypal Lwów character , a good hearted ruffian derived from the hungarian "Betiar" a Robin Hood type figure. the song would have been the title song for the 3rd Szczepko and Tońko comedy film planned for 1939 but never made due to World War 2 the songwriter died in the Holocaust, see http://kresy-siberia.org/won/?page_id=19&lang=en&text=schlechter&id=157577

Zosia Biegus

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Ten Drogi Lwow by W Budzynski

Zosia Biegus

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Ta joj ta Lwów (part 1)

Zosia Biegus

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Ta joj ta Lwów (part 2)

Zosia Biegus

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Elźbieta Masajada - Elźbieta, u podstawy kamienia Jadwiga, ktora goscila ich u siebie prawie cal‚e wakacje, 1939 roku.

Cheryl Masajada

Before WWII

Poland

Scenes from Wolyn, Poland before WWII

Cheryl Masajada

Before WWII

Poland

Wolyn

My Dad Jerzy looking very sweet ( circa 1930?)

Danielle Augustyn Meyer

Before WWII

Poland

My Grandmother Helena Rutowska shortly before the war.

Danielle Augustyn Meyer

Before WWII

Poland

My Father Jerzy Augustyn's Communion. I have no idea where. Maybe in Czyszki where his Uncle Aureli Wiktor Augustyn was a priest. 1940? I can only guess times and places as all these photos were found when my mother died, twenty years after my father died...

Danielle Augustyn Meyer

Before WWII

Poland

My dad, about 1937 or so, near in the foothills of the Tatry Mountains.

Danielle Augustyn Meyer

Before WWII

Poland

Service prior to World War II

Jozef Krolczyk

Before WWII

Poland

Prior to World War II

Jozef Krolczyk

Before WWII

Poland

My mother, Maria Starzak, 1933

Krys Dobrzanski

Before WWII

Poland

Outside their farmhouse in Nozdrzec, Poland before moving to the village of Podliski near Mosciska, Lwow. Front row, L-R, Jan (Maria's eldest brother), Zofia (nee Gierula, Maria's mother) holding baby Stanislaw, Maria with her maternal grandmother, grandfather, Jozefa, (Maria's aunt and the sister of Zofia), with young daughter Zosia and, Jozef (Maria's brother). Back L-R, Walenty (Maria's father), Jan Gierula (brother of Zofia)and his wife Zuzanna, Stanislaw Starzak, brother of Walenty and husband of Jozefa and father to Zosia (Maria's cousin). There were 2 more children born to Zofia and Walenty - Janina and Stanislawa. Maria, Jan and Jozef were the only survivors of the Siberian deportation and they all ended up in England. Jan died aged 32 and Jozef aged 56.

Krys Dobrzanski

Before WWII

Poland

Nozdrzec

Marchewa family farm

Lonia Sarniak

Poland

Osada Jazlowiecka

Marchewa family going to church

Lonia Sarniak

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Jazlowiecka

Sugar-beet crop in foreground.

Lonia Sarniak

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Jazlowiecka

Not sure who these people are - I'd love to know. Possibly taken at Osada Jazlowiecka.

Lonia Sarniak

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Jazlowiecka

From 1938. - Walenty Marchewa (my grandfather).

Lonia Sarniak

Before WWII

Poland