Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

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

Jan Maciejski - in Zolkiew circa 1932

Before WWII

Poland

Anna Maciejska and her brother Jan - Żółkiew, unknown date

Before WWII

Poland

My dad Kazimierz and his father Stanislaw

Anna Kaczanowski

Before WWII

Poland

Kaczanowski homestead, Gaj Swiecicki, Poland

Anna Kaczanowski

Before WWII

Poland

Jankiel Szwarc - Pre-WWII photo of the father of Anna Mass

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Friends of Anna Mass - Names unknown - pre-WWII, Lublin

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Lublin

Kazimierz Dolny - Father of anna (first on the left), Anna next to him, her mother is fourth from the left. The other persons are unknown.

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Jankiel Szwarc and Ben - In front of their workplace

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Lublin

Kazimierz Dolny, 1938 - Anna Mass (first on the left) with her family - her mother Sara (first on the right) and her father Jankiel (second on the left). The other names are unknown.

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Anna Mass (second from right), her father Jankiel (fourth from left), her mother Sara (third from left) in Kazimierz Dolny.

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Anna Mass and friends - Anna Mass (second from right). Other names unknown.

Anna Mass

Before WWII

Poland

Lublin

Baby Antoni in carriage

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Baby Antoni and mother

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Infant Antoni 1

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Infant Antoni 2

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Infant Antoni 3

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Infant Antoni 4

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland

Infant Antoni 5

Antoni Stelmach

Before WWII

Poland