Poland

Auchwitz British Prisoners of War

My Father .. he is still alive 87 years old. must be the last British POW to held captive in the German...

Journey to Freedom

A. Sobotowski was fighting with the Polish Army at the Battle of Warsaw. when it became apparent that the...

Capture

My friend Maria and her family survived the uprising and lived a few stations from Warsaw. After we had our...

Lewis Edwards - Background

Name Age Place of Birth Status Current District Emma G. Edwards 24 Limehouse, London Wife Bromley, London...

A Story Among Many

When they arrived at the beach it was empty and the Germans were not far behind ,their brief was in this...

Escape from Warsaw

A group of us around 50 decided to escape from the Germans and go to Moscow and getting there any way we...

Postcard Not Sent: From a POW in Poland

I am a son of Edward Duncan Walker, East Lancs Regiment,, one of those POWs, who was captured at Dunkirk...

Lewis Edwards - Forced March

Belgard Gross Pobloth 16 Gross Pobloth Dargeslaff 31 Dargeslaff Zurkwitz 24 Zurkwitz Revenow 22 Revenow...

Virtuti Militari: A Polish Perspective on Russia and Germany

Back in 1970's Soviet soldiers were announced to be our best friends and my grandfather must have got...

Not a Lot of War: A Rifleman's Story

They were landed on the beach, and during the evacuation helped many injured soldiers to get shipped out on...

Forced Labour and a Ukrainian Romance in Germany

Wladyslaw went to work in Tewkesbury on a farm. and I went to work in Brockworth, where I cleaned rooms for...

Alone, Young and Vulnerable on a Farm in Poland

In 1939 my stepfather was forced to go into the Polish Army. In 1944 my stepfather was taken to the Russian...

The Storming of a Monastery

At the outbreak of war as Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Stanislaw was badly injured. In 1941 when Germany...

Warsaw story

Then we moved out of Warsaw, but to our surprise the Russians marched in... I interviewed them in Polish,...

My Parents are from Poland

My mum and her brother were just taken away from their family and village, by the Germans at gunpoint. Dad...

Aircraft M. I. A. Project - "Bette Jane" at Bydgoszcz Airfield

Her crew belonged to the 379th Bomb Group and consisted of 1st Lt. Merton H. Abbott - pilot, F/O Ora T....

Soldiers on Holiday: In Northern Ireland

William James Nevin joined the Irish guards in 1928 at the age of sixteen - he lied about his age. After...

Germans in our house

I was born in Poland in 1939 and the Germans invaded our village when I was four years old... A river ran...

The Russians Are Coming

One day he went to the toilet and found the old lady from the farm had hung herself from the toilet...

Life in the Polish Army

In April 1943 we were transferred to the Polish Army in Scotland through South Africa, arriving in Scotland...

From Tannankov to the Tyrol - A Homesick Teenager's Story

The Germans took me to a transit camp in Krakow, Poland where I stayed for about a week....

A Spell of Captivity

As a 19 year old music student in Poland in 1939,my father was waiting to go to the Conservatory of Music...

FIVE YEARS IN STALAG VIIIB, LAMSDORF

HOWEVER, ON THE 26TH JUNE 1940, MY MOTHER RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES THAT MY FATHER...

From Mwava to Blackshaw Moor

Before Britain declared war, when my dad was 6 and living in the village of Mwava in Poland... Straight...

abduction

She was 13 years old when Germany invaded.During the 1st year of the occupation, on her way home from...

Polish Memories [Mr. & Mrs. Chmielecki]

George and Maria came from Poland but never talked about the war years. George also ended up in England,...