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| Name: | Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein | |
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| Gender: | Male | |
| Date of birth: | 1932-12-21 | |
| Place of birth: | Poland, Rozwadów | |
| Did this person die during World War ll?: | No | |
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| Entry ID: 147488 | Mothers given name: | |
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| Description: | His parents and older sister Elzbieta were all born in Lwów. His father worked for the Polish Railways, and was scheduled to take charge over the Lwów line staring 1 Jan 1940. From 1937 to 1939, they lived in Rozwadów, in a house provided by the railway. His mother worked in a bank. They (Jerzy, his mother, maternal grandmother and sister Elzbieta) were deported on 10 Feb 1940, to a collective farm approximately 50 km from the Chinese border. When the Germans entered Lwow, his father had gone into hiding, fearing that the Germans would conscript him (because of his name). Father knew German very well, as he had been educated in Vienna by his paternal uncle, who had raised him. When he learned that his family was being deported, he came to the station and asked to go with them. The Soviets arrested him and later sent him to work in a coal mine in Vorkuta. |
Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll
| Residence at the outbreak of WWll: | Poland, Lwowskie, Lwów, |
| Kresy Inhabitant Status: | Kresy inhabitant for several generations |
| Ethnicity: | Polish |
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| Occupation at the outbreak of WWll: | Child of 8 |
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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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| 1942 | 00 | 00 | Russian SFSR | |||||
| 1942 | 00 | 00 | Kazakh SSR | Semipałatyńska oblast' |
| Other Information: | Deported with his mother, maternal grandmother (Stefania Wladyslawa Superla) and sister Elzbieta. Released on amnesty, they made their way south. All but Elzbieta ended up in hospital with typhoid fever, and this is where their grandmother died (Feb 1942). 10 or 11 year old Elzbieta had to organize her funeral on her own. |
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Military Experience
| Served in | Unit | From: yyyy | mm | dd | To: yyyy | mm | dd |
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| Junak Mechanical School | In Egypt | 1945 | 1947 |
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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: | From Pahlevi, they went to Camp No. 1 in Teheran, where his mother signed up for a nursing course, and then worked in the hospital there. They were on the list of those who were to go to New Zealand, when they learned that Father was serving in Iraq (he must have been arrested earlier and ended up in a different part of the USSR, from which he was released on amnesty). The family ended up in Isfahan rather than New Zealand. He and his sister went to school there, while there mother was head nurse in the Polish section of the local hospital. When the war ended, the family was to join the father in Italy, but the family only made it as far as Egypt when the families were prevented from going further, as the British were now preparing to evacuate the Polish Army from Italy to the UK. So they stayed in Egypt, where his mother worked for the Polish Red Cross, and Jerzy went to Cadet school (Junak), and his sister was in the SMO school in Nazareth. |
Residence After 1945
| Country | State | District | Locality | Nearest large city | Description |
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| United Kingdom | Hartsly Camp | Then attended Mechanical School in Lilford. | |||
| Egypt | Junak training (1945-1947), until the entire school was evacuated to the UK. | ||||
| near Winchester |