Personal Details
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| Name: | Krystyna Mucha | |
| Maiden Name: | Stopnicka | |
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| Gender: | Female | |
| Date of birth: | 1931-03-13 | |
| Place of birth: | Poland, Wileńskie, Dzisna, Prozoroki | |
| Did this person die during World War ll?: | No | |
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| Fathers given name: | Walerian (1900) | |
| Entry ID: 100603 | Mothers given name: | Jadwiga (1900) |
| Mothers maiden name: | Zacharkiewicz | |
| Given name of spouse: | Zygmunt | |
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| Given name(s) of children: | Krysztof (1959), Boghmila, Teresa (1953) | |
| Description: | Krystyna's father Walerian Stopnicki was a military settler - he was a legionnaire - and they owned a 65 hectare farm. See http://kresy-siberia.org/won/?page_id=19&lang=en&text=Stopnicki&id=67196 |
Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll
| Residence at the outbreak of WWll: | Poland, Wileńskie, Dzisna, Prozorki, |
| 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: | Student (1st year) |
| Military status at the outbreak of WWll: | Not Applicable |
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Deportations and Repressions
| FROM: yyyy | mm | dd | To: yyyy | mm | dd | To: Soviet socialist republic | Oblast | Locality |
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| 1940 | 02 | 10 | 1942 | 00 | 00 | Russian SFSR | Orenburska oblast' |
| Other Information: | As a military settler in the Kresy, Krystyna's father Walerian Stopnicki, tried to cross into Romania in September 1939. However, he was betrayed at the border by the guide. Arrested by the Soviets he was deported to Siberia before Christmas 1939. Krystyna and her mother were then deported on the 10th February 1940 to Sevirnaya by the Dvina river in Orenburg oblast, USSR. Krystyna's mother, Jadwiga Stopnicka, worked in the forest cutting the branches off the trees which had been logged. During this period Jadwiga became very ill with pneumonia. A Russian Dr, who was an ex-Polish exile, treated her and she eventually recovered. This saved Krystyna being taken to the Soviet orphanage which would certainly have meant that she would never have seen her mother again. Krystyna and her mother Jadwiga were without Walerian (Krysia's father) - he was in a labour camp in a different part of Siberia. After Amnesty Krystyna and her mother went to Tashkent. However this was full so they were forced to stay on until Samarkand. There they were sent to "Stalin" kolkhoz near Samarkand. Krysia's father, Walerian, meanwhile enlisted with Anders Army as a Senior Seargant. They were evacuated to Persia from Krasnovodsk across the Caspian Sea. Krystyna recieved her confirmation and baptism from Bishop Josef Gawlina, chief of chaplains of the Polish Armed Forces. Krystyna recalled the food on arriving at Persia - dates, figs, rice and lamb stew. She vividly recalled hundreds of children who ate too much food but their little stomach's suffering from starvation could not cope and they tragically died of dystentry. |
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Other Wartime Circumstances
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| Civilian Camp in the Middle East: | Tehran |
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| Please provide information if none of the preceding apply: | Krystyna last saw her father in Persia. He was in Camp 4, then the J.S. Mechanical storekeeper until being sent to Scotland. Meanwhile, Krystyna and her mother spent time in Camp 1, Tehran before being sent to the civilian refugee camp in Tengeru. They stayed here until 1950 and Krystyna has very fond memories of her time here. |