Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Tourism postcard Czarnohora mountains_back

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanisławowskie

1928 ID card from Wilno

Wiktoria Bielicka

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Julian’s school photo, 1936

Julian Rybarczyk

Before WWII

Poland

In Zaleszczyki as a girl with brother Wladek

Romuald Lipinski

Before WWII

Poland

Zaleszczyki

Mucha Album Pg 4 Photo 1

Krystyna Mucha

Before WWII

Poland

Attesting to the fact that Jan Gadomski completed elementary school - issued in 1922

Irena Jankowska

Before WWII

Poland

Village of Waniow - Polish Kolonja settlement, 1936

Elizabeth Taylor

Before WWII

Poland

(L-R) Jacenty Migut, wife Jadwiga, son Ted, Antonina Wilk (Jadwiga's mother), Witka, Anthony Wilk (Jadwiga's father)

Greg Archer Migut

Before WWII

Poland

Lukawiec, Rzeszow

Polish Navy officers/cadets on training ship ORP Iskra in 1937. Tadeusz Lesisz was a Polish Navy cadet in 1939, escaping to the UK on ORP Burza. During the war he also served on MGB S3 and ORP Błyskawica and cruiser Dragon, retiring a full commander.

Wanda Lesisz

Before WWII

Polish navy

RYSZARD_1937

Helen Bitner

Poland

My babcia Julia Pacewicz nee Paradowska born Krzemieniec 1900. She was deported to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940 from Rowne with two of her children Wladyslaw (my father) and Jadwiga. Her eldest son Jozef missed the arrest and was not allowed on the cattle wagon with them. Julia's husband (my grandfather) Jan Pacewicz, PP, was murdered in the Katyn massacre. After release from the USSR with Anders Army, Julia was a refugee in Koja, East Africa and settled in the UK in 1948.

Anna Pacewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Krzemieniec

Hucuł (aka Hutsul) -2 of 8 – Czarnohora mountains

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanislawow

Lwów_view 2 of 3

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

This photo was sent as a postcard to Henryk Gradzik by Marian Witold in 1920

Dioniza Choros

Before WWII

Poland

Kopaczówka

He was the last Polish Ambassador to Canada before WWII.

Halina Babinska

Before WWII

Weronika Muszak

Halina Babinska

Before WWII

Poland

Halina's parents and siblings in Baranowicze early 1930's

Halina Miros

Before WWII

Poland

Dąbrowa Colony, Kresy. 20 January 1936.

Apolonia Kojder

Before WWII

Poland

Pre-WWII family home

Halina Kozlowska

During WWII

Poland

Wilno

Józef, Stanisław, Bronisław, Genia and Genowefa at Sienkiewicze. The formally posed photograph of, perhaps, 1931 is meant to portray a reasonally well-to-do family in a comfortable setting.

Janusz Michalak

Before WWII

Poland

Sienkiewicze

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

Franciszek Turkiewicz, Przemysl State Police ID

Mark Turkiewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Przemysl

Stanislaw Tarazewicz in Wilno – July 1939

Stanislaw Tarazewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Tourism postcard Czarnohora mountains_front

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanisławowskie

Julian’s school certificate, 1936-1937

Julian Rybarczyk

Before WWII

Poland

High school friends includng Bronek Sokolowski and Czesia Klepa

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Felsztyn, Lwow

Mucha Album Pg 2 Photo 4

Krystyna Mucha

Before WWII

Poland

Helena, Genia, Marja Beznowska, Wladyslaw, and brother-in-law. Dłbrowa Colony, Kresy (Poland) 1932.

Apolonia Kojder

Before WWII

Poland

Felix in Poland, before the war

Irene Tomaszewski

Before WWII

Poland