Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Queue for break

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Queue of prisoners

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Cross

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Women in forced labour camps

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Burial

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Carrying water

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Cart

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Guard tower

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Winter in Wolyn

Bogdanna Winnicka

During WWII

Basia, Wojtek, Julek drawing by their father Stefan Narebski in 1932, before they were deported to Siberia.

Wojciech Narębski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanislawowka no longer exists at all. The village was destroyed by either the Russians or Ukranians. One of the very interesting things about the map is that if you compare it to some pre-war military maps, the two are virtually identical. So Genia Kowalczyk, who drew it, had a very good memory!

Genia Kowalczyk

Before WWII

Poland

Stanisławówka, Sokal, Lwów

Here are some drawings done by one of the Polish women in Wanda Sawicki's group in London, Ontario Canada. She began drawing in her early seventies, and wanted to draw all of the places in which she had lived: Kresy, Siberia, Africa, England and Canada. Rozalia (Gawor) Wolczyk has given her permission to show them on the Gallery. Rozalia was born in 1925 in Stanislawow, her parents having moved there from Bochnia near Krakow to start a new life. She was deported, along with her family, to Archangielsk, where one of her brothers died. From there, they got to the refugee camp in Pahlevi, moved to Tengeru camp in Africa, then to England where she married and finally to London, Canada. She began English as a second language classes once she retired, then wrote her memoirs with the help of one of her teachers. Called "Always in my Mind." She also took cultural interpreter training and helped us at the London InterCommunity Health Centre as a volunteer in this capacity with the Polish group for several years. She still participates in several programs, and has progressed beautifully in her art work. (Wanda Sawicki.) --- The first drawing is of her family's home in Kresy (Kolonia Stanislawowka, Powiat Sokal, Wojewodztwo Lwowskie), so fondly remembered that the colour of the wheat fields appears to be shining down from heaven as a blessing.

Rozalia Wolczyk (Gawor)

Before WWII

Poland

Stanislawowka

Painting of Dawidkowce by Stanislaw Batowski.

Ken Fedzin

Before WWII

Poland

Drawing of Ulan on horseback - public domain

Poland

Sketch of Lancers on horseback in Poland, Sept 1939. Source: Public Domain

During WWII

Poland

"My lake in osada Chylin, Polesie Province" - by T. Soberajski

Telesfor Sobierajski

Before WWII

Poland

Easter Blessing at All Saints church in Chodorow - (Polski) Gdzie spadły bomby - Polska 1939r.

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Chodorow

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 6

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 1

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 2

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 3

Alicja Edwards

During WWII

Poland

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 4

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Memories of Kresy 5

Alicja Edwards

Before WWII

Poland

Franciszek Kuszewski - ojciec Adeli w mundurze gajowego ok 1938 roku; in a forester uniform ca 1938

Kuszewska photo collection

Before WWII

Poland

Rodzina Kuszewskich w gajówce Mandzyna 1932 rok; the Kuszewski family in the house Mandzyna 1932

Kuszewska photo collection

Before WWII

Poland

Gajówka Mandzyna k/Zabłocie

Onufry Cholewa - chrzestny ojciec Adeli Kuszewskiej ok 1930 roku; Adela's Godfather ca 1930

Kuszewska photo collection

Before WWII

Poland

NumerRepertorjum

Zuzanna Wacyk

Before WWII

Poland

Husiatyn, Tarnopolskie

Wladyslaw Pałasz

Małgorzata Ciszko

Before WWII

Poland

Podryże 2

Marianna Pałasz (nee Kubica or Kubicz) from the Kielec region. She, her husband, and her children, moved to Kowla after 1918. Her husband was a railroad employee and they lived in a railway property.

Małgorzata Ciszko

Before WWII

Poland

Kowel

Cousin of Eva Pałasz.

Małgorzata Ciszko

Before WWII

Poland

Kowel