Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Janek Czarnota served in the Polish Airforce. This picture in uniform was taken in 1938 during his National Service (he was an engineer). In the Sept 1939 campaign he was interned in Rumania but escaped. After the fall of France Jan joined the RAF in the UK as a mechanic servicing Hurricane fighters. Wishing to see action Jan transferred to the Polish Navy in 1941. He served on ORP Krakowiak, and MGBs as a mechanic during WW2.

Janek Czarnota

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Janek Czarnota served in the Polish Airforce. This picture in uniform was taken in 1938 during his National Service (he was an engineer). In the Sept 1939 campaign he was interned in Rumania but escaped. After the fall of France Jan joined the RAF in the UK as a mechanic servicing Hurricane fighters. Wishing to see action Jan transferred to the Polish Navy in 1941. He served on ORP Krakowiak, and MGBs as a mechanic during WW2.

Janek Czarnota

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

ORP Iskra was a Polish Navy training vessel (a sailing ship) which was in the Mediterranean at the outbreak of WWII.

Mieczyslaw Wozniak

Before WWII

Polish navy

Z. Plesniak, Polish Navy

Stephen Plesniak

Before WWII

Polish navy

Submarine Orzeł

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Polish navy

Training ship of the Polish Navy

Mateusz Prociak

After WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Training ship of the Polish Navy

Mateusz Prociak

After WWII

Poland

Polish navy

In Gdynia, spring 1939 - photo was colourised by Mateusz Prociak.

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Gdynia

Polish navy

Sailors from the River Flotilla of the Polish Navy, 1929

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Pinsk Fleet

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Pinsk Fleet

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

Monitors in Pinsk, 1925

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Pinsk

Polish navy

Polish Navy on the Pina river

Mateusz Prociak

Before WWII

Poland

Polish navy

My Father was born in Wilno on May 1st 1916 son of Michal and Stephania and baptised in the church adjoining Matka Boska Ostrabramska. Prior to the war he worked in 'Vitram' glass works in Wilno as an apprentice glassblower. He was the youngest but one of 12 children (5 of whom survived to adulthood.)

Mieczyslaw Matulewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Other

Borkowski family before the war

Ewa Mikusinski

Before WWII

Poland

Borkowski family before the war

Ewa Mikusinski

Before WWII

Poland

Borkowski family before the war

Ewa Mikusinski

Before WWII

Poland

Borkowski family before the war

Ewa Mikusinski

Before WWII

Poland

Ewa Borkowska (1st on the right)

Ewa Mikusinski

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

R to L: Leon, Anna, Bolewslaw, Izabella, Wanda

Izabella Mączko

Before WWII

Poland

Dubno

Tadeusz Czeszejko-Sochacki

Richard Czeszejko-Sochacki

Before WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

First in front, at a ping pong tournament in Sejny

Richard Czeszejko-Sochacki

Before WWII

Poland

Family picnic at Lake Wigry, close to Suwałki, 1938

Richard Czeszejko-Sochacki

Before WWII

Poland

Tadeusz centre, and his wife Jadwiga on left in front, 1938

Richard Czeszejko-Sochacki

Before WWII

Poland

Tadeusz Czeszejko-Sochacki on the right of the group, Poland 1939

Richard Czeszejko-Sochacki

Before WWII

Poland

September 1939 Campaign

Marian Magierski

Dorota Kubisz

Before WWII

Poland

Marian Magierski

Dorota Kubisz

Before WWII

Poland

Mlot Fijalkowski, commander of 18 division, inspecting troops at Lomza barracks.

Henryk Hil

Before WWII

Poland

Lomza

September 1939 Campaign

Soldiers of the 33rd Regiment in Lomza

Henryk Hil

Before WWII

Poland

Lomza

September 1939 Campaign

THE ORIGINS AND THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND by Piotr Eberhardt, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw: Poland. e-mail address: p.ebe@twarda.pan.pl

Piotr Eberhardt

After WWII

Poland

Warsaw