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Personal Details


	Name:	Maria Urbaniak
	Maiden Name:	Puzynowska
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	Gender:	Female
	Date of birth:	1911-05-19
	Place of birth:	Poland, Wileńskie, Wilno,
	Did this person die during World War ll?:	No
	Date of death:	2009-5-
	Place of death:	United States
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	Given name of spouse:	Jozef
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	Given name(s) of children:	Anna, Ewa
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Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll

Residence at the outbreak of WWll:	Poland, Wileńskie, Wilno,
Kresy Inhabitant Status:	Kresy inhabitant for several generations
Ethnicity:	Polish
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Occupation at the outbreak of WWll:	Lawyer
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Deportations and Repressions

FROM: yyyy	mm	dd	To: yyyy	mm	dd	To: Soviet socialist republic	Oblast	Locality
1940	00	00	1941	00	00	Uzbek SSR
1940	00	00	1941	00	00	Kazakh SSR

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She was arrested in October 1939 and taken to the local jail where she was kept for 3 weeks. Her family tried to see her and bring her food there, but they were told she was gone. She was moved around, first to Bialystok, and then to Wilejka Powjatowa, where she was for 9 months. Then, with a group of other prisoners, without a trial, she was sentenced to 5 years hard labor in Kazahkstan for "contrarevolution." She and the other prisoners were transported in cattle cars on a train, and after working in camps along the way, ultimately spent two and a half years in the camp in Kazahkstan. Released on 'amnesty' she made her way south, spending some time working on a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan. Then she went to Jangiul, where she joined the Polish Army.

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Military Experience

Served in	Unit	From: yyyy
Other	Maria came to London to work in the Ministry of Justice of the Polish Government in Exile	1944
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)	Court reporter in the military court	1943
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)	316 Kompania Transportowa	1942

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