Post by ZosiaB on Jan 14, 2006 13:04:35 GMT
Mar 14, 2005 at 16:17:47 Lindsey NULS
Very informative and interesting site. Keep up the good work!!
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Mar 31, 2005 at 22:50:34 Barbara BUCSK.
Informacion from Zosia
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Apr 21, 2005 at 01:18:23 Krystyna Piotrowska Freiburger Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I realy, really enjoyed reading your story ..your life at the camp. It brought back so many memories for me. I also grew up in a Polish camp(oboz)in a place called Hodgemoor nr Amersham Buckinghamshire.Everything you said was exactly the same for me with only different placenames I know life was hard for the adults but for me it was a wonderful place to grow up. My brother and I have gone to the camp when we've been back to England.It is a picnic area now but we can still find the tree we played on. So many lovely memories . Thank you for helping me to revisit them. Yous story has moved me to write about my life in the camp for my children. I hope you don't mind if I use yours as a guide. I found your story through the Kresy?Siberia group that your son belongs to. Thank you again.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 02:21:48 James Conroyd Martin author of Push Not the River
Zosia,::::The tour was very moving, watching yours and others' lives unfold. I very much enjoyed it. I hope your present life is a good one. My best to you. I'll be recommending your site. Congrats to you and your son!::::Best,::::J. C. Martin www.PushNotTheRiver.com
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Apr 21, 2005 at 02:24:27 Janusz John Kulesza, Tampa Florida
Member of Kresy Group, simply wonderful, an ispiration to all who view.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 03:51:37 Krystyna Szypowska, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The link was provided to the Kresy Group, of which I am a member. This is a wonderful web site ! Although my mother did not live at this camp (she arrived in England as a WAAF from Camp Kidugala in Africa) it was most interesting to see what life was like for many Poles at that time. Thank you for providing all this material - the photos are wonderful and the explanations are priceless. Thank you.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 06:02:34 Julia Dyer, Australia
I enjoyed looking at your site, reminds me of the DP Camps in Australia. I came across this site through Kressy Siberia list.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 08:55:00 Inka Tunikowska, Weybridge, Surrey: halinamacdonald@hotmail.com
Zosiu, congratulations on an excellent site. What memories and familiar names. There was a message on the PIGB site, from presumably your son. I ended up working in publishing and thought it would be great to do a book on the camp, but you beat me to it with your website. Still, a book is not out of the question. Do get in touch, and we can remimisce. Inka
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Apr 21, 2005 at 09:03:15 Ed Zietarski, Petersfield Hants (born Manchester)
Found link from Poles in Great Britain Yahoo! Group. Interesting site describing the life, environment and experiences of Poles that came to the UK around the time of WW2. My father (Jozef Zietarski) was at a similar camp in Bicester (pronounced "Bister"), Oxforshire. He remained there until he found work in Manchester via a friend. I have frequently visited the former camp in Penrhos, North Wales. Unlike Bicester and Northwick Park, Penrhos still has Poles living there. Penrhos serves as a Nursing Home. It also has a Polish Scout Centre and the "usual" facilities, such as a Church, library, Post Office etc. It as know informally as "The Polish Village".
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Apr 21, 2005 at 10:15:03 Andy Piotrowski - Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
I very much enjoyed looking at your site. I was born in a similar camp in England called Hodgemoore (near Amersham, Buchinghamshire) and visiting your site brought back many memories. My family moved from Hodgemoore to Canada in 1958. ::Great job on putting this site together. My sister (Krystyna) put me in touch with this site. ::Andy Piotrowski
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Apr 21, 2005 at 10:58:27 Steve Sobot (Stefan Sobotkiewicz), UK & Netherlands
Greatly enjoyed your site, thank you. I believe that my Mum's family (Grochowska) were there in the late 40's! ::Used link from "Kresy-Siberia" forum.::email: s.sobot@chello.nl
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Apr 21, 2005 at 13:54:13 Tony Gabis, Buckinghamshire, England
Superb! Enough info and quality to turn into a small book, especially if it were combined with other peoples experiences of other camps. Perhaps those people will be inspired by this web site. Arrived via Jurek's invitation posted at groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain
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Apr 21, 2005 at 14:17:30 Audrey Czechowska, Perth,Western Australia
Well done! Enjoyed viewing your site. Brought back many happy memories of a Polish camp in Northumberland.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 16:40:11 Krys Dobrzanski. Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Excellent Jurek, but where are you on the photos?
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Apr 21, 2005 at 21:15:23 Theresa Langmead (formerly Szczych)
I too lived in the Camp from 1958 - 1963
Through my son who although of mixed polish English birth is proud of his Polish background
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Apr 21, 2005 at 23:27:12 "Anna" Oklahoma, USA
I found your site on a forum (KIBICE UK) where Jurek posted your URL. I am very impressed, by the way you built your website, but most of all, by the indomitable spirit of you and of your fellow "Displaced Persons"! Beautifully done!
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Apr 22, 2005 at 00:58:44 Lubinski in Minnesota, USA
Great job.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 01:30:26 Larry Adams, (Monroe, Michigan USA)
Thanks for sharing memories of your early years. This is a very warm and lovely presention. Jim Martin from a Polish internet discussion group referred us to your website.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 08:27:07 Cela Tluszcz, Portsmouth
Excellent! My Father's family and Stepfather's were also in camps but in the South of England. I also recognise the name Zdisia Sikora who now also lives in Portsmouth.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 10:34:11 Aleks Zajac, Liverpool
Excellent site reminds me of the stories my father tells me of his arrival in the UK. Found through Kibice-Uk.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 13:34:26 Eve Jankowicz, USA
What an excellent site. Thank you and your mother for this! I learned of the site after you posted at the Kresy-Siberia Group.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 14:41:17 Krystyna Butler, Tampa, FL, USA
I came accross this by being a member of the Kresy-Siberia internet group
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Apr 22, 2005 at 21:29:31 Richard Przewlocki-Melbourne-AU
K/S member-Congratulations,I truly enjoyed reading about your first years of freedom in a foreign land.I hope that this inspires our Poles in Australia to make a similar contribution to the history of Poles in exile.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 13:13:15 Piotr Ulanowski Belguim
I still remember my time in the camp.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 15:42:44 Antoni Kazimierski
You have done wonders and a great credit is due to you.::My family would have liked that a similar historical record was made of their camp in Kevedon,Essex.::Re. K-S Group.::antoni530
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Apr 23, 2005 at 19:25:04 Rich Widerynski, Long Beach, California, USA
Found about your wonderful website on the Kresy-Siberia website. You've done a fine job! Thank you for the opportunity to view how life was in this part of the world since WWII to date.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 20:12:10 Michael Kulik, Walsall, West Midlands.
Extremely interesting - my Aunt,Uncle and cousins(family name of Ostrynski) were at Northwick until the 1960's. I also have some photos somewhere of the Nissan Huts from our visits in the 1960's. My Grandfather was also at nearby Long Marston. ::::I found the site via the Kresy-Siberia pages.::::Excellent work !
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Apr 23, 2005 at 21:30:59 Tomk Kiseleski - Pittsford, NY, USA
Hello Zosia. Thank you and your son for creating this wonderful website. I admire the wonderful courage and determination of your family and all the displaced Poles who survived and prospered through such difficult circumstances. Your story reminded of the terribly inhuman cruelty of Stalin and the Russian Bolsheviks with the complicity of Roosevelt and Churchill which forced families to flee Poland for their lives. Yours is another testament to the perseverance and intrepidness of the Polish people who finally threw off the yoke of the godless Russian oppressors and their Polish turncoats in 1989. Thank you for putting names and faces to a brave chapter in Polish history.
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Apr 24, 2005 at 13:45:04 Linder Ladbrooke [K-S], UK
Absolutely fantastic!! Well done. If only others in UK would follow with more!!::K-S member
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Apr 25, 2005 at 23:59:40 Janet Birkner- Anderson, SC
I found your site on the Kresy Siberia list. Noticed you had some pictures of children named Liniewicz. My cousin, who was a Liniewicz was also in one of the camps in England, I am going to see if she remembers. She came to the US in the 1950s, but I don't remember the year. I will let her know about your site. Thank you so much for creating this site, so many of us had NO clue what it was like in that time!::::Jan
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Apr 26, 2005 at 18:06:15 Artemio Coria Zukowski, Chestertown, Maryland, USA
This site was very informative. I thank you for putting the time and effort in recording your history. My ancestry is Polish-Argentinian and I love anything Polish.
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Apr 27, 2005 at 14:51:44 Bogdan Wilamowski, Derby UK
Brilliant and very important in portraying visually our culture, and history after the war., a must for educztional establishments to teach the facts, as yet somewhat naive as to how the Poles came to the shores of the Uk at that time.My family was in the Mepal Camp, Ely, Cambridgeshire from 1947-1958, therafter it was disbanded, sadly.Some families moved to places as Melton Mowbray, Hitchin,Leicester, and quite a few to Canada.Julek, you and your mother will find this snippet interesting, Canon K. Sufranowicz was the priest of Mepal in these years, he will never be forgotten not necessarily for religious beliefs, but for giving out the "gruszka" punishment, and cycling round the flock of 4 camps, at times of need. Wonderful childhood days !!!!.......incidentally would Krystyna contact me off-line, my mothers maiden name was Piotrowska, who knows. I came across the site as K-S member (one of the first).
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Apr 27, 2005 at 17:31:31 Rena/stanford le hope Essex
Great to view your photos. They reminded me of the ones my father had, but he was based in writtle nr. chelmsford essex for some time. Your album gives a feel of what it was like::
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Apr 29, 2005 at 22:45:01 John Malin of Blockley
Through personal Contact with you
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Apr 30, 2005 at 17:45:11 GF Cholewczynski - New Orleans
Thank You - Very nice site !
Very informative and interesting site. Keep up the good work!!
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Mar 31, 2005 at 22:50:34 Barbara BUCSK.
Informacion from Zosia
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Apr 21, 2005 at 01:18:23 Krystyna Piotrowska Freiburger Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I realy, really enjoyed reading your story ..your life at the camp. It brought back so many memories for me. I also grew up in a Polish camp(oboz)in a place called Hodgemoor nr Amersham Buckinghamshire.Everything you said was exactly the same for me with only different placenames I know life was hard for the adults but for me it was a wonderful place to grow up. My brother and I have gone to the camp when we've been back to England.It is a picnic area now but we can still find the tree we played on. So many lovely memories . Thank you for helping me to revisit them. Yous story has moved me to write about my life in the camp for my children. I hope you don't mind if I use yours as a guide. I found your story through the Kresy?Siberia group that your son belongs to. Thank you again.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 02:21:48 James Conroyd Martin author of Push Not the River
Zosia,::::The tour was very moving, watching yours and others' lives unfold. I very much enjoyed it. I hope your present life is a good one. My best to you. I'll be recommending your site. Congrats to you and your son!::::Best,::::J. C. Martin www.PushNotTheRiver.com
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Apr 21, 2005 at 02:24:27 Janusz John Kulesza, Tampa Florida
Member of Kresy Group, simply wonderful, an ispiration to all who view.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 03:51:37 Krystyna Szypowska, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The link was provided to the Kresy Group, of which I am a member. This is a wonderful web site ! Although my mother did not live at this camp (she arrived in England as a WAAF from Camp Kidugala in Africa) it was most interesting to see what life was like for many Poles at that time. Thank you for providing all this material - the photos are wonderful and the explanations are priceless. Thank you.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 06:02:34 Julia Dyer, Australia
I enjoyed looking at your site, reminds me of the DP Camps in Australia. I came across this site through Kressy Siberia list.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 08:55:00 Inka Tunikowska, Weybridge, Surrey: halinamacdonald@hotmail.com
Zosiu, congratulations on an excellent site. What memories and familiar names. There was a message on the PIGB site, from presumably your son. I ended up working in publishing and thought it would be great to do a book on the camp, but you beat me to it with your website. Still, a book is not out of the question. Do get in touch, and we can remimisce. Inka
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Apr 21, 2005 at 09:03:15 Ed Zietarski, Petersfield Hants (born Manchester)
Found link from Poles in Great Britain Yahoo! Group. Interesting site describing the life, environment and experiences of Poles that came to the UK around the time of WW2. My father (Jozef Zietarski) was at a similar camp in Bicester (pronounced "Bister"), Oxforshire. He remained there until he found work in Manchester via a friend. I have frequently visited the former camp in Penrhos, North Wales. Unlike Bicester and Northwick Park, Penrhos still has Poles living there. Penrhos serves as a Nursing Home. It also has a Polish Scout Centre and the "usual" facilities, such as a Church, library, Post Office etc. It as know informally as "The Polish Village".
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Apr 21, 2005 at 10:15:03 Andy Piotrowski - Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
I very much enjoyed looking at your site. I was born in a similar camp in England called Hodgemoore (near Amersham, Buchinghamshire) and visiting your site brought back many memories. My family moved from Hodgemoore to Canada in 1958. ::Great job on putting this site together. My sister (Krystyna) put me in touch with this site. ::Andy Piotrowski
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Apr 21, 2005 at 10:58:27 Steve Sobot (Stefan Sobotkiewicz), UK & Netherlands
Greatly enjoyed your site, thank you. I believe that my Mum's family (Grochowska) were there in the late 40's! ::Used link from "Kresy-Siberia" forum.::email: s.sobot@chello.nl
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Apr 21, 2005 at 13:54:13 Tony Gabis, Buckinghamshire, England
Superb! Enough info and quality to turn into a small book, especially if it were combined with other peoples experiences of other camps. Perhaps those people will be inspired by this web site. Arrived via Jurek's invitation posted at groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain
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Apr 21, 2005 at 14:17:30 Audrey Czechowska, Perth,Western Australia
Well done! Enjoyed viewing your site. Brought back many happy memories of a Polish camp in Northumberland.
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Apr 21, 2005 at 16:40:11 Krys Dobrzanski. Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Excellent Jurek, but where are you on the photos?
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Apr 21, 2005 at 21:15:23 Theresa Langmead (formerly Szczych)
I too lived in the Camp from 1958 - 1963
Through my son who although of mixed polish English birth is proud of his Polish background
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Apr 21, 2005 at 23:27:12 "Anna" Oklahoma, USA
I found your site on a forum (KIBICE UK) where Jurek posted your URL. I am very impressed, by the way you built your website, but most of all, by the indomitable spirit of you and of your fellow "Displaced Persons"! Beautifully done!
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Apr 22, 2005 at 00:58:44 Lubinski in Minnesota, USA
Great job.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 01:30:26 Larry Adams, (Monroe, Michigan USA)
Thanks for sharing memories of your early years. This is a very warm and lovely presention. Jim Martin from a Polish internet discussion group referred us to your website.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 22, 2005 at 08:27:07 Cela Tluszcz, Portsmouth
Excellent! My Father's family and Stepfather's were also in camps but in the South of England. I also recognise the name Zdisia Sikora who now also lives in Portsmouth.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 10:34:11 Aleks Zajac, Liverpool
Excellent site reminds me of the stories my father tells me of his arrival in the UK. Found through Kibice-Uk.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 13:34:26 Eve Jankowicz, USA
What an excellent site. Thank you and your mother for this! I learned of the site after you posted at the Kresy-Siberia Group.
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Apr 22, 2005 at 14:41:17 Krystyna Butler, Tampa, FL, USA
I came accross this by being a member of the Kresy-Siberia internet group
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Apr 22, 2005 at 21:29:31 Richard Przewlocki-Melbourne-AU
K/S member-Congratulations,I truly enjoyed reading about your first years of freedom in a foreign land.I hope that this inspires our Poles in Australia to make a similar contribution to the history of Poles in exile.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 13:13:15 Piotr Ulanowski Belguim
I still remember my time in the camp.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 15:42:44 Antoni Kazimierski
You have done wonders and a great credit is due to you.::My family would have liked that a similar historical record was made of their camp in Kevedon,Essex.::Re. K-S Group.::antoni530
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Apr 23, 2005 at 19:25:04 Rich Widerynski, Long Beach, California, USA
Found about your wonderful website on the Kresy-Siberia website. You've done a fine job! Thank you for the opportunity to view how life was in this part of the world since WWII to date.
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Apr 23, 2005 at 20:12:10 Michael Kulik, Walsall, West Midlands.
Extremely interesting - my Aunt,Uncle and cousins(family name of Ostrynski) were at Northwick until the 1960's. I also have some photos somewhere of the Nissan Huts from our visits in the 1960's. My Grandfather was also at nearby Long Marston. ::::I found the site via the Kresy-Siberia pages.::::Excellent work !
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Apr 23, 2005 at 21:30:59 Tomk Kiseleski - Pittsford, NY, USA
Hello Zosia. Thank you and your son for creating this wonderful website. I admire the wonderful courage and determination of your family and all the displaced Poles who survived and prospered through such difficult circumstances. Your story reminded of the terribly inhuman cruelty of Stalin and the Russian Bolsheviks with the complicity of Roosevelt and Churchill which forced families to flee Poland for their lives. Yours is another testament to the perseverance and intrepidness of the Polish people who finally threw off the yoke of the godless Russian oppressors and their Polish turncoats in 1989. Thank you for putting names and faces to a brave chapter in Polish history.
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Apr 24, 2005 at 13:45:04 Linder Ladbrooke [K-S], UK
Absolutely fantastic!! Well done. If only others in UK would follow with more!!::K-S member
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Apr 25, 2005 at 23:59:40 Janet Birkner- Anderson, SC
I found your site on the Kresy Siberia list. Noticed you had some pictures of children named Liniewicz. My cousin, who was a Liniewicz was also in one of the camps in England, I am going to see if she remembers. She came to the US in the 1950s, but I don't remember the year. I will let her know about your site. Thank you so much for creating this site, so many of us had NO clue what it was like in that time!::::Jan
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Apr 26, 2005 at 18:06:15 Artemio Coria Zukowski, Chestertown, Maryland, USA
This site was very informative. I thank you for putting the time and effort in recording your history. My ancestry is Polish-Argentinian and I love anything Polish.
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Apr 27, 2005 at 14:51:44 Bogdan Wilamowski, Derby UK
Brilliant and very important in portraying visually our culture, and history after the war., a must for educztional establishments to teach the facts, as yet somewhat naive as to how the Poles came to the shores of the Uk at that time.My family was in the Mepal Camp, Ely, Cambridgeshire from 1947-1958, therafter it was disbanded, sadly.Some families moved to places as Melton Mowbray, Hitchin,Leicester, and quite a few to Canada.Julek, you and your mother will find this snippet interesting, Canon K. Sufranowicz was the priest of Mepal in these years, he will never be forgotten not necessarily for religious beliefs, but for giving out the "gruszka" punishment, and cycling round the flock of 4 camps, at times of need. Wonderful childhood days !!!!.......incidentally would Krystyna contact me off-line, my mothers maiden name was Piotrowska, who knows. I came across the site as K-S member (one of the first).
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Apr 27, 2005 at 17:31:31 Rena/stanford le hope Essex
Great to view your photos. They reminded me of the ones my father had, but he was based in writtle nr. chelmsford essex for some time. Your album gives a feel of what it was like::
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Apr 29, 2005 at 22:45:01 John Malin of Blockley
Through personal Contact with you
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Apr 30, 2005 at 17:45:11 GF Cholewczynski - New Orleans
Thank You - Very nice site !