Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Mucha Album Pg 1 Photo 6

Krystyna Mucha

Before WWII

Karol Jastrzebski

Izabela Spero

During WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

Leopold, brother to Halina Miros, before deportation to Siberia.

Halina Miros

Before WWII

Poland

Irena – during her early career in Lwow

During WWII

Poland

Lwow

Father of Irena Jankowska - member of the Polish Border Guard - date unknown

Irena Jankowska

Before WWII

Poland

built in 1594 - still standing and in use today

Jan Kołodziński

After WWII

Poland

Military service in Nowa-Wilejka 1938. 13th "Tartar" Wilno Cavalry Regiment. Stefan Mustafa Abramowicz collection. Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones & Zofia Wierzbicka

Xenia Jacoby

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Ludwik Rosol and Family (Front)

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Boryslaw, Lwow

Kosciol w Komarowce

Krystyna Mucha

Before WWII

Poland

First Communion: Edek Werakse, Dysia Gradzik, Gienia Michalek, Zosia Uzban, teacher Helene Serdowicz , Ukrainian who taught Catholic religion. May 1936.

Dioniza Choros

Before WWII

Poland

Szczurzyn, Wołynskie, Luck

Genia in 1938

Eugenia Gruszewska

Before WWII

Poland

Stolpce, Nowogródzkie

Weronika and her sister-in-law

Halina Babinska

Before WWII

Poland

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Lisa Frizzle

Before WWII

Marriage of Jan Wójcik to Józefa Gajewska

Stanisława Wherrett

Before WWII

Poland

Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef

Regina Miłaszewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Rear Admiral Xawery Czernicki of the Polish Navy (16 Oct 1882 – May 1940 in Katyn). He was born in Giedejki, the district of Oszmian, the son of Edward and Teresa Bohuszewicz. Wanda's father Jozef Wojtkowiak worked with him (in photo), under his command, in France, during the construction of the first Polish destroyers and submarines in France. There is book in Polish entitled “Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki”, published in Gdynia in 2001.

Wanda Troman

Before WWII

France

Polish navy

Tomasz Szozda and Józefa (nėe Turańska), centre of three women; Skałat, Poland, 1937; other 2 women are unknown.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Identity unknown. Can anyone identify him, or make out the embossed writing on the bottom right hand side? I think it says "VENVS" "LWOW" and "AKADEMICKA". Dated in Lodz, Poland, 27 V 1936

Vanessa Tomecki

Before WWII

Poland

Lodz

Franciszek, Bronislawa, Ryszard & Marta

Mark Turkiewicz

Before WWII

Poland

My Great Grandfather - This is a photo of my Great Grandfather Franciszek Prusinski, taken in 1936. He was born in 1878 and died in Siberia some time between 1940-1942 (my mother was to young to remember the exact date).

Stan Gazdowicz

Before WWII

Poland

Group of students touring southeastern Poland, at the railway by an oil derrick

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Boryslaw, Stanisławowskie

Legitymacja Gimnazjalna-1938

Romuald Lipinski

Before WWII

Poland

ON_the_TERRACE_at_KWATERY

Helen Bitner

Before WWII

Poland

Adolf Bitner-Glindzicz 1

Helen Bitner

Before WWII

Poland

Marysia Zosia and Tadek Sokołowski

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Felsztyn, Lwow

Mucha Album Pg 1 Photo 5

Krystyna Mucha

Before WWII

Irena – during her early career in Lwow

During WWII

Poland

Lwow

Ludwik Rosol and Family (back)

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Boryslaw, Lwow

Adam Zak 1885-1936 (brother of Jan Zak), was spared the exile to Siberia having died in 1936, although his wife Aniela (nee Chmiel) was not so fortunate.

Dioniza’s First Holy Communion Group – reverse side of photo

Dioniza Choros

Before WWII

Poland

Szczurzyn, Wołynskie, Luck