Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Polish Navy cadet

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Gdynia

Polish navy

Gimnazjum im Wl. Syrokomli w Nieswiezu.

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Nieswiez, Nowogrodskie

Polish navy

Konstanty Okolow-Zubkowski (back, right) with his family in June 1939. He was a cadet in the Polish Navy.

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Nieswiez, Nowogrodskie

Polish navy

Konstanty's mother and sister in 1938, in Nieswiez, Kresy.

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Nieswiez, Nowogrodek

Konstanty's family before the war in Nieswiez (present-day Belarus). From left: Mrs R Skuratowicz, Mr Skuratowicz, Mrs Helena Okolow Zubkowska, Master Kostek Okolow Zubkowski (Konstanty as a child), Mrs Julia Okolow Zubkowska (mother), standing Mieczyslaw Okolow Zubkowski (father), vistior?

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Nieswiez, Nowogrodek

Polish identity card of Polish Navy cadet Konstanty Okolow- Zubkowski in 1938

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Konstanty, as a cadet in Poland 1939, at a farewell party before sailing to Africa

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Polish navy

Konstanty, as a cadet onboard the Polish Training Sailing Ship, off the coast of North Africa (Morocco).

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Polish navy

Konstanty, in Poland, early in 1939.

Konstanty Zubkowski

Before WWII

Polish navy

Birth Certificate Dad born near Kalisz western Poland but aged @ 2 years the family moved to Poddebce, Wolyn in the eastern borderlands.

Helena Kordzinski

Before WWII

Jozef's mothers parents - Marianna & Wojciech Samolewscy

Helena Kordzinski

Before WWII

Michal Krupa – Volunteer in Lwow, 1938

Chris Gray

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Outside their farmhouse in Nozdrzec, Poland before moving to the village of Podliski near Mosciska, Lwow. Front row, L-R, Jan (Maria's eldest brother), Zofia (nee Gierula, Maria's mother) holding baby Stanislaw, Maria with her maternal grandmother, grandfather, Jozefa, (Maria's aunt and the sister of Zofia), with young daughter Zosia and, Jozef (Maria's brother). Back L-R, Walenty (Maria's father), Jan Gierula (brother of Zofia)and his wife Zuzanna, Stanislaw Starzak, brother of Walenty and husband of Jozefa and father to Zosia (Maria's cousin). There were 2 more children born to Zofia and Walenty - Janina and Stanislawa. Maria, Jan and Jozef were the only survivors of the Siberian deportation and they all ended up in England. Jan died aged 32 and Jozef aged 56.

Krys Dobrzanski

Before WWII

Poland

Nozdrzec

My mother, Maria Starzak, 1933

Krys Dobrzanski

Before WWII

Poland

(Polski) w Przemyślanach

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Przemyślanach

Julianna Angielska nee Górska, wedding photo, 1931

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

(Polski) Lata dwudzieste

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

(Polski) Czas powstania zdjęcia nieokreślony

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

Brother of the mother of Krystyna, circa 1928

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

1930s

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

with a friend, 1930s

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

with a friend, 1930s

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

high school photo

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

Krystyna Angielska, 1939

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

also, Maria - the cousin of her mother, 1936

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

Krystyna, circa 1936

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Circa 1938

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

Lwów

Her mother is Kazimiera (Jarocka) Czeszejko. Circa 1936

Krystyna Angielska

Before WWII

Poland

w Przemyślanach

Krystyna is the second on the right, in the second row.

Krystyna Angielska

During WWII

Poland

First Communion, 1942

Krystyna Angielska

During WWII

Poland