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	Name:	Julian Wypych
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	Gender:	Male
	Date of birth:	1930-06-29
	Place of birth:	Poland, Tarnopolskie, Zaleszczyki, Poniatowo
	Did this person die during World War ll?:	No
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	Fathers given name:	Antoni Wypych
Entry ID: 116201	Mothers given name:	Wiktoria Wypych
	Mothers maiden name:	Stasiuk
	Given name of spouse:	Maria Wypcyh
	Maiden name of spouse:	Depczyńska
	Given name(s) of children:	Antoni, Jerzy, Zofia, Maria
	Description:	Julian was born in Tarnopol, Poland on 29th June 1930. His parents were Antoni and Wiktoria and he was one of 14 children. His siblings were: Józef (who sadly died as a baby), Maria, Jan, Anna, Konstanty, Wiktoria, Władysław, Józefa, Genowefa, Franciszek, Teresa, Zygmunt and Zbigniew.Julian’s father Antoni spent most of his life working on farms before he owned his own small farm in Poniatowo, Tarnopol. Antoni was working in Germany when he met Wiktoria and they married and moved back to Poland to Podołe. Julian recalls his father telling a story of one farm that he worked on, where he came upon the Lord and his wife and the Lord said to him “Wypych, you should kiss my wife’s hand” to which he responded “listen, I only kiss my own wife’s hand”.His father sometimes worked at night time and Julian has very fond memories of his mother, during the day when they were small, singing very sad Ukrainian songs. His mother would then start to cry and say “moj kochane dzieci”.On 10th February 1940 the family were deported from Poniatowo to Kansk, Irkutskanya Oblast. Sadly Julian’s youngest brother’s Zygmunt and Zbigniew died within the same week in Jorochta somewhere up in the Taiga. They would have been approximately 2 and half and 1 years old. It is thought they ate some poisonous berries. Julian remembers his father cursing Stalin when they died.After the “Amnesty” the family travelled to Uzbekistan. It was in Uzbekistan that Julian joined the junakow and from there went on to Pahlevi, then Teheran, then Iraq. From 1942 – 1945 he was stationed with the junior soliders in Nazareth, Palestine and then in 1945 – 1946 he was training at the Engineers School in Egypt. His brother Władysław, also joined the Junacka Airforce School. After the war Władysław joined the family in NZ travelling on the SS Mataroa.Sadly Julian’s mother passed away from Typhus in Teheran, after which his father joined the army and went on to Iraq then through to Palestine.His brother Jan joined the army in Uzbekistan and went on to Lebanon, then Italy and then onto the UK.Julians brother Konstanty became separated from the family on the way to Uzbekistan and went on to join the army. He received the Virtuti Militari and after the war went to Reading, England.Julian’s sister Anna joined the army and went from Teheran to Palestine in 1942 then onto Gedera in Italy. Anna went on to marry in Italy and have her firstborn child Danuta there. Anna joined the rest of the family in New Zealand in 1947.The rest of Julian’s siblings: Franciszek, Maria, Wiktoria, Józefa, Genowefa, Franciszek, Teresa, all went to Teheran, then onto Isfahan before travelling to New Zealand on the US General Randall with the 733 Polish children who went to the orphanage in Pahiatua.From 1946-1948 Julian was based in England after joining the Polish Resettlement Corp. He arrived in Liverpool, then went onto South Hampton and then Manchester. In October 1948 Julian, his brothers Jan and Konstanty travelled on the Rimutaka to join the rest of the family in New Zealand. He spent two months at Pahiatua Camp. Władysław travelled to New Zealand on the SS Mataroa.After the war his father Antoni was sent to Scotland and joined the Polish Resettlement Corp. He came to New Zealand in 1947 to join the rest of the family, where he lived in Wairoa by Gisborne, never remarried and sadly passed away in May 1966 of Parkinsons disease.On 29th December 1955 Julian got married to Maria Depczyńska (a former Pahiatua child) and they went on to have four children.

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