Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Service booklet from Poland

Marcin Baran

Before WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

Service booklet from Poland

Marcin Baran

Before WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

Czeslaw Borek as a child, with his mother and sisters

Czeslaw Borek

Before WWII

Poland

Her grandmother survived the deportation and the trip to the southern USSR, but then died on the journey between Pahlevi and Teheran.

Daniela Toth

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Oryszkowce

Jozef is in the first row, first on the right. These are workers from the Cooperative where he worked.

Daniela Toth

Before WWII

Poland

Osada Oryszkowce

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

My father’s mother, Matylda Gorczynska

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

My mother Aniela Szutryk at an earlier age, before she wed her first husband Jan Czmik.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Danuta and her mother

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

My Grandfather Stanislaw Gorczynski

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Drawing of her home in the Kresy

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Danuta, her step brother Jan Czmiz, her father Wladyslaw Gorczynski, and Aniela walking on the promenade Miekiewieza in Lwow.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

In Poland, before the War, on the street of Akademieka. I was 7 years old, just started school.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Danuta in Poland at age one, with her brother and mother.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Babcia Matylda

Danuta Morgan

Poland

Shortly before WWII, in Kolomyja. Stefan is behind the person in the military uniform. The other names are unknown.

Claudia Sagardía

Before WWII

Poland

Kolomyja

Stefan, MIeczyslaw, Stanislaw, father Jozef holding Edward, Maria, Halina. Jan and mother Rozalia are missing from the photo.

Ed Bator

Before WWII

Poland

Janowa Dolna, Wolyn

Jan Bator, member of Strzelec para-military organization, 1938
Jan is the one with his hands on his shoes.

Ed Bator

Before WWII

Poland

Edward’s mother, Rozalia Bator, Wolyn, Poland 1938
Died at Krasnowodsk in 1942

Ed Bator

During WWII

Poland

Jan Bator, at Janowa Dolina, Poland 1938
Walking with Marian Slawa (short pants)

Ed Bator

Before WWII

Poland

Jan Bator, killed at Starobielsk
Edward's brother.

Ed Bator

During WWII

Poland

Edward in a kindergarten play, 1937
Edward as a chimney sweep next to a wash lady in a short skirt, facing Jadwiga Romanczyk, his future wife.

Ed Bator

Before WWII

Poland

Janowa Dolina

Teenage Edward.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

Before WWII

Poland

ID card issued in Lodz 30.6.1939.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

Poland

Lodz

In September 1939 Edward volunteered to join the Polish Auxiliary Forces. Early in September 1939 he was arrested by the Germans, together with some of the other auxiliary soldiers. He managed to escape and returned to his home in Lodz where his mother was still living. On 6th December 1939 Edward travelled by train to Lwow, in eastern Poland, to avoid being re-arrested by the Germans.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

Poland

Lodz

Sadly Edward never saw his mother again as she was incarcerated in the Lodz Ghetto where she died of peritonitis in December 1943 at the age of 53.

Original now in the USHMM Collection

Poland

Lodz

Marian?

Edwarda Fijal

Before WWII

Poland