Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Janek Czarnota served in the Polish Airforce. This postcard of him in uniform during National Service with a Polish fighter plane was taken in 1938. In the Sept 1939 campaign he was interned in Rumania but escaped to Yugoslavia and then to Greece. He was then taken by the Polish merchant vessel "Warszawa" to France. After the fall of France Jan joined the RAF in the UK as a mechanic servicing Hurricane fighters. Wishing to see action Jan transferred to the Polish Navy in 1941. He served on ORP Krakowiak, and MGBs as a mechanic during WW2.

Janek Czarnota

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

This photograph shows Sub Lieutenant Kazimierz Sadowski (Andrew's father), first in his class at the Polish Naval Academy, receiving the Polish Navy Sword of Honour from Kontradmiral Jerzy Swirski, on the deck of ORP Bałtyk in October 1936. In September 1939, Kazimierz Sadowski was serving as the torpedo officer on submarine ORP Zbik and was interned in Sweden for the duration of the war (together with submarines ORP Sep and ORP Rys).

Andrzej Sadowski

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

This photograph shows the presentation of new Polish Naval officers to the President of Poland, Prof I Moscicki, and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Forces, Marshal Rydz-Smigly, at Warsaw Castle, 15th October 1936. Fourth from left is Sub-Lieutenant Kazimierz Sadowski (Andrew's father). In September 1939, Kazimierz Sadowski was serving as the torpedo officer on the submarine ORP Zbik, and was interned in Sweden for the duration of the war (together with submarines ORP Sep and ORP Rys).

Andrzej Sadowski

Before WWII

Poland

Warsaw

Polish navy

Anton Piatek (father of contributor, Martin Hazell) was an Officer in the Polish Navy in WW2. This is his father on his wedding day in pre-WW2 Poland.

Anton Piatek

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Officer Cadet school, 1938-1939

Maciej Ciesielski

Before WWII

Poland

Officer Cadet school

Maciej Ciesielski

Before WWII

Poland

List of the military settlers located in the Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) of Poland prior to WWII. The list contains over 10,000 names. The column headings are: Family Name - First Name - Military Rank - Province - District - Municipality - Settlement Name - the # of the actual plot of land - Notes. This list does not include Civilian Settlements in the Eastern Borderlands. The list originates from the Military Settlers Association in Warsaw.

Family Association of Civilian / Military Settlers

Before WWII

Poland

Osady, NE of Rowne, Wolyn

Osady Wojskowe na terenie Szubkowa na Wolyniu, B Podhorski

Before WWII

Poland

Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

Janina (Baginska)and Franciszek Polewski. Osada Hallerowo 1937 with children (L-R) Ludmila Witold, Boguslaw Halina, Wandzia. Submitted by Andy Polewski Bender

Poland

Osada Halerowo

zawody-3

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

AKT Nadawczy page 2, 1922

Maczka Family

Poland

Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

zawody-4

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Grodno Festival of Music and Sport May1939

Maczka Family

Poland

Grodno

Defilada/Parade 1

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Janina Stobniak, 2nd from left_Osada Krechowiecka.

Elzunia Olsson

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Krechowiecka

Source: Public Domain

Before WWII

Poland

Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

Stefan Maczka 1937

Maczka Family

Poland

Osada Krechowiecka, Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

Grain-storehouse

Maczka Family

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Krechowiecka, Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

zawody-6

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

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Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Ceremony in Osada Krechowiecka, Wolyn 1930. Originally identified as the inauguration of the community centre. However, Piotr Tabor has commented that this is another existing building and that the ceremony may be the collection of soil for the Memorial Mound of Piłsudski. He adds that the soldier digging in the foreground is probably his great-grandfather Wincenty Tabor, with his children (Piotr's grandfather Jan and Jan's sister Jadwiga) holding a sack to collect it. Wincenty Tabor was a Krechowiecka military settler, but did not live in Krechowice but in osada Rusywel.

Poland

osada Krechowiecka, Wołyń

Dairy-workers,osada Krechowiecka, Wolyn

Maczka Family

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Krechowiecka, Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

Church at Karlowszczyzna

Maczka Family

Poland

Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

Defilada/Parade 2

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Defilada/Parade 3

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Defilada/Parade 4

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Defilada/Parade 5

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Public Domain

Public domain

Poland

Tuczyn, Wołyńskie

zawody-1

Maczka Family

Poland

Rowne, Wołyńskie

Plan Osada Krechowiecka

Maczka Family

Poland

Szubkow, Tuczyn, Wołyńskie