Ściana Hołdu - Kresy Siberia

Personal Details


	Name:	Teresa Kosierb
	Maiden Name:	Pyrska
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	Gender:	Female
	Date of birth:	1936-01-01
	Place of birth:	Poland, Białostockie, Grodno, Osada Zytomla
	Did this person die during World War ll?:	No
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	Fathers given name:	Kazimierz
Entry ID: 147625	Mothers given name:	Klara
	Mothers maiden name:	Brzeska-Rudnicka
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	Description:	* Her mother Klara had served in the Polish Army in WWI, as a nurse, and as a result she was granted land on a Polish settlement in Zytomla after the war. * Her maternal grandfather had served in the Napoleonic Army and had met his Spanish wife while in service. They had 13 children - Klara was the 13th child (born in Madrid when her mother was visiting her parents there). The first 12 children were all boys, and Klara was the only girl. Before WWII, her maternal grandfather had been sent to Siberia, and his wife and children were exiled to a different place. * In 1940, they were all deported along (paternal grandparents, parents, she and her sister, her bpaternal uncle with his wife and son Tadek). Grandfather died in Kazakhstan, and grandmother died in Uzbekistan. * The family then ended up in Persia (Iran), where her father joined the Polish Army and was sent to Egypt, while her mother, sister, and their cousin Tadek were all sent to Africa - to the Lusaka settlement. * Once reunited in the UK, the family lived in several PRC camps. Teresa attended high school in Diddington to age 16. Kazia married while they were still all living in the Hoddington PRC camp - she later had a daughter that she named Klara. * The family remained in the UK, but Teresa and her husband moved to Collingwood, Ontario in Canada - their sons both graduated as Engineers from Military College and made a career in the Armed Forces. Her parents, as well as Kazia and her family, remained in the UK. * Information obtained in an interview recorded with Teresa, also Kazimiera's account in the book "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".

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Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll

Residence at the outbreak of WWll:	Poland, Białostockie, Grodno, Osada Zytomla,
Kresy Inhabitant Status:	Military settler / Family member of military settler
Ethnicity:	Polish
Religion:	Roman Catholic
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Occupation at the outbreak of WWll:	Child of 3
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Deportations and Repressions

OD: yyyy	Mm	Dd	Do: yyyy	Mm	Dd	Do: Socjalistyczna Republika Radziecka	Oblast	Miejscowość
1941	09	00	1942	00	00	Russian SFSR
1941	09	00	1942	00	00	Uzbek SSR

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Grandfather died at Nikulinska, and grandmother died in Uzbekistan. In Uzbekistan, her mother worked in the laundry, her father gathered firewood in the fields, and they put the children in an orphanage, in hopes that they would have a better chance to survive.

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Orphanages:
Civilian Camp in the Middle East:	Tehran
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Civilian Camp in Africa:	Lusaka
Please provide information if none of the preceding apply:	In Lusaka with her mother, sister, and her cousin (later adopted as her brother) Tadek, until 1948.

Residence After 1945

Kraj	Stan	Miejscowość	Opis
South Africa	Rodesia	Lusaka
Canada	Ontario	Collingwood
United Kingdom			Hoddington PRC Camp, then Diddington, then Hodge PRC Camp