Personal Details
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| Name: | Zbyszek Paz | |
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| Gender: | Male | |
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| Place of birth: | Poland, Lwowskie, Rzeszów, Rzeszow | |
| Did this person die during World War ll?: | No | |
| Date of death: | 1994- | |
| Place of death: | United Kingdom | |
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| Entry ID: 148310 | Mothers given name: | |
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| Given name of spouse: | Marjorie | |
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| Given name(s) of children: | Loretta, Gillian, Jeremy | |
| Description: | In 1940 Zbyszek, a teenager, left home in the Soviet controlled Eastern Borderlands to visit his sister in Przemysl, in the German run "General Government". Trying to return home he was arrested, interrogated, and sentenced to 10 years hard labour in Siberia. Upon the German invasion of USSR Zbyszek escaped to join the Polish forces in the Middle East and volunteered to join the Polish Navy. He served on the destroyer ORP Slazak during the Dieppe Raid and on MGB S7 in the English Channel area. In 1947 he married local girl Marjorie and they had 3 children, living in Plymouth. From the 1950s Zbyszek (Barry) worked for a bed manufacturing company in Plymouth. He was an active member of the Polish Eagle Club and the Plymouth Polish Naval Association and he also supported a Polish orphanage. Upon the fall of Communism Zbyszek was presented with a Sword of Honour at the Polish Embassy in London. When he retired he spent much time in Poland and writing for Polish magazines. |
Personal Situation at the outbreak of WWll
| Residence at the outbreak of WWll: | Poland, Lwowskie, Rzeszów, Rzeszow, (near Lwow) |
| Kresy Inhabitant Status: | Kresy inhabitant for several generations |
| Ethnicity: | Polish |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
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| Occupation at the outbreak of WWll: | School boy |
| 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 | 00 | 00 | 1942 | 00 | 00 | Russian SFSR | Komi republika autonomiczna |
| Other Information: | Zbyszek was arrested by the Soviets in Lwow suspecting of crossing the German/Soviet border. It was 13th March 1940. He was transported to prison in Dnepropetrovsk where he was interrogated. He was 19 years old. Finally he was sentenced to 10 years hard labour, alleged of crossing the demarcation line for espionage. He was deported in a cattle truck with several thousand Polish citizens to the Pechora gulag system in the Komi Republic working on the construction of the Vorkuta railway line. |
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Military Experience
| Served in | Unit | From: yyyy | mm | dd | To: yyyy | mm | dd |
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| Polish Navy | 1942 | 3 | 1947 | ||||
| Other | 10th Division of the Polish Army in the East at Lugowa | 1941 | 1942 |
| Other Military Service: | Following Amnesty Zbyszek joined the Polish Army at Lugowa. He found out that sailors and airmen would be the first to leave the USSR. He was still young, and had gone through hell already so he decided to give a false statement that before the war he had been in the navy. He was accepted and taken to Krasnovodsk and loaded onto the ship Astrakhan to Persia. From Persia to via India and South Africa he finally arrived in the UK with the Polish Navy. He served on the destroyer ORP Slazak during the Dieppe Raid and on Motor Gun Boat S7 in the English Channel area. |
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| Other Battles: | Dieppe Raid |
Other Wartime Circumstances
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Residence After 1945
| Country | State | District | Locality | Nearest large city | Description |
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| United Kingdom | Plymouth |