Gallery – Polish Armed Forces in USSR
Polish soldiers and a group of children, Persia (Iran)
Jozef Gazdowicz is holding a child in his arms, on the right side of the photo.
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Iran
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Polish ID Card issued in the Middle East 29/5/1942
This ID was issued, pending the issue of a Military Pass.
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Polish Army Driving Licence
This is a copy of my Father's Polish Second Corps Driving Licence, issued 29/12/1942.
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Polish Army Driving Licence, pg 2
Page 2 of my Father's Polish Second Corps Driving Licence, issued 29/12/1942.
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Polish soldiers in a Bar in Jerusalem
This photo is taken in a Bar in Jerusalem. What is of interest , is that the woman in the photo is Jewish and was from Dad's village in the Kresy. She was deported to Siberia like everyone else. She ended up in Jerusalem and was already settled into life in Jerusalem. Photo would be late 1942 or early 1943 ?
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Israel
Jerusalem
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Jozef Gazdowicz in Middle East
My father with a friend in the Middle East, year unknown.
Stan Gazdowicz
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Second Corps Colleagues in the Middle East
Boleslaw Kolodziej and friend - WWII - General Anders - 2nd Corps - Middle East
Zbyszek (Bob) Styrna
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 15
They hired a wagon and set off south. When they arrived in Tashkent they were happy to see Polish soldiers but the army was incapable of coping with these thousands of freed deportees. They continued south to Samarkand and eventually ended up working in cotton fields.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 16
Soon they were moved back to the river where they went through a period little better than a term in hell. The nights were bitterly cold, they had no means of lighting a fire and they also suffered from terrible hunger. Very often the only food was grass and if it contained a worm so much the better! Then they were sent out to collective farms and lived in kibutki (clay sheds). There was neither work nor food. Here they spent Christmas 1941.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 16
Not long after, Telesfor took heed of some advice and said goodbye to his family - and particularly his mother who died there. He reached the vast army camp at Guzar, then moved to Vrevsk. Here Telefor contracted typhoid, along with many others and was cared for by Polish mothers who did all they could to help. From Krasnovdsk he sailed across the Caspian Sea and landed in Pahlevi on 23 March 1942. The rest of Telesfor's story can be read in "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Iran
June 1942.
June 1942.
During WWII
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 1.
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 1. - drawing of a donkey in the mountains
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 2.
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 2 - drawing of donkeys in the mountains
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Suez Canal
Suez Canal - dated 2.1.1944
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
February 1942.
February 1942.
During WWII
March 1942.
March 1942.
During WWII
May 1942.
May 1942.
During WWII
1942 Quastina, 5th Company
1942 Quastina, 5th Company
Andrew Syska
During WWII
1945 Camp Barbara, V Company
1945 Camp Barbara, V Company
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Adrewès mother at Ain Karem, Janina Szyska
Adrewès mother at Ain Karem, Janina Szyska
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Adrewès parents at Ain Karem, Czeslaw and Janina Szyska
Adrewès parents at Ain Karem, Czeslaw and Janina Szyska
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
1945 Drivers Licence photo
1945 Drivers Licence photo
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
1945 Drivers Licence from El Quassasin
1945 Drivers Licence from El Quassasin
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan1, 1942
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan1, 1942
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Russia
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan2, 1942
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan2, 1942
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Russia
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan3, 1942
Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan3, 1942
Andrew Syska
During WWII
Russia
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)