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Name: Jan Aksnowicz
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Cause of Death:Sun stroke in Barnual, Siberia
Fathers given name: Adam
Entry ID: 83409 Mothers given name: Melvina
Mothers maiden name: Kalicka
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Description: Adam and Melvina Aksnowicz lived on their land at Zajezierze, 12 klm from Glebokie with five sons. Jozef, Lucian, Alfons, Piotr, and Jan. On 1 November 1940, Lucian was arrested by the NKVD and taken to Glebokie police station, interrogated and tortured, then sent to Berezwecz Klastor where he was held until trial. Several days later the rest of the family was taken from their home and deported to Barnaul internment camp in Siberia.Lucian, who had served with the Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza in the 1939 campaign, and had later joined a local anti-Soviet resistance group, was tried as an “enemy of the people” and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in the Siberian camps of Kolyma.The entire family, with the exception of Jan the youngest who died of sun stroke at Barnual, survived the war.Jozef and Piotr served with the Polish 1st Army formed in the Soviet Union and fought alongside the Russian army. Lucian and Alfons served in Anders Army in the Italian campaign.After the war, Adam and Melvina settled in Gdansk, with sons Jozef and Piotr.Lucian and Alfons, because of political fears, never returned to communist Poland and settled in the USA and Canada.
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Other Information: Except for one of the five sons, the rest of the family was taken from their home and deported to Barnaul internment camp in Siberia where Jan, who was the youngest, died of sun stroke at Barnual.

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