Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Taken by Germans
Aniela describes when the family were taken by force by the Germans for forced labour and brother Czesław disappeared forever.
Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Ukranian Threat
Aniela talks about how the family fled to Dubno. Her mother returned to their home to fetch food & belongings but everything had been taken and a Ukrainian man threatened …
Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Helping Jews
Aniela describes how the Jews would come to their house at night to ask for food – helping them risked Aniela’s family being shot by the Germans.
Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - German Guns
Aniela remembers that when the Germans invaded Kresy, they gave the Ukrainians guns who then shot the local Jews into dug out graves.
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Maria sings a Polish Song
Maria sings the song the lady taught her in the Persian hospital. Full text of the original song, by Teofil Lenartowicz (words) and Ignacy Komorowski (music): “Idzie sobie pacholę Przez …
Andrew Syska - Personal Memoir
Stefan Halamaj - Deported to USSR
Stefan describes the Soviet invasion, being recruited by the Soviets at school as a trade apprentice but then being deported in a wagon to the USSR.
Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - Family in the UK
Barbara talks about her mother leaving Poland in 1956 to finally re-join Barbara’s father and brother who had remained in the UK after the end of the war.
Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - Mother Arrested
Barbara talks about her mother being arrested in Siberia by the NKVD for teaching Polish children the Polish language.
Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - USSR 2
Barbara talks about her father and brother leaving with Anders Army but that she and her mother remained in Siberia for 6 years.
Barbara Witrzens - USSR
Barbara talks about her father following the family to the USSR following their deportation and then enlisting in Anders Army.
Wladyslaw Zarczynski - Bandit Killed
Władysław describes when his cousin Kazio shot the Bandit leader from his bunker position during the defence of Choromce from the UPA attack.
Wladyslaw Zarczynski - UPA Attack
Władysław describes the chaos during the UPA attack to the Polish defence of Choromce – the village burning and shots being fired.
Wladyslaw Zarczynski - Victims
Władysław describes seeing the bodies of 85 Polish people who were killed by the UPA bandits during the Wołyn Massacres.
Antoni Goleniowski - Memoir
A typed/condensed version of my Grandfather's original handwritten Memoir
Wladyslaw Zarczynski - Cousin Killed
Władysław describes when UPA bandits murdered his cousin with a pick in the town of Parosla during the Wołyn Massacres.