Poland

My Freind Jan

Earlier this year I was sitting in my front room with Jan Sowa, who lives with his wife in Stonehouse,...

My Uncle was a Prisoner of War: In Poland

He was then moved to Stalag V11B, Teschen, Poland and at a later date went to Stalag X11A at Limburg......

Gribbin Brothers

My grandfather was John Gribbin and he and his two brothers were captured at Dunkirk in 1940. Next, it was...

Rearguard Dunkirk

He was with a small group from his regiment in the town of Dunkirk and the German forces were rapidly...

My journey

I had to decide wether to fight for poland or for Germany... We had to trek from Russia to France and then...

Those Left Behind: A POW in Poland

Marched across Europe on foot, to Poland, to serve in a POW camp as an 'agricultural' slave......

My Grandfather

Most of my Grandfathers friends died along the way....

Captured only to Escape

This is a short story of my grandad maxamillian and his war. My grandad was Polish he was brought up and...

The Ice Road

Stefan and three friends walked and travelled with refugees, sometimes they were strafed by German planes,...

Warsaw to Liverpool

The first part of the journey was from Warsaw to his home town of Przemysl which he managed safely,...

Unknown Holocaust

Descriptions that have come down to us of the railway boxcars used for these transports include: ®...

The Baby in the Snow

In June 1941, 20 months after their joint dismemberment of Poland, the Nazis turned on their Soviet friends...

My Parents during the 2nd World War

They took her from her home town of Lwów, which was in the east part of Poland before the 2nd World...

A Survivor of Many Roads - from Poland to Chesterfield via Siberia and the Middle East.

The Day that changed my life forever. As told by Wictoria Kazimiera Czentorycka nee Weglarz.

In June 1941 Germany attacked Russia and the Polish Government in London signed agreement with Russia and...

Counter-revolutionary!

Before the war, I understand that my mother-in-law, Regina, and her younger sister, Helena, lived in the...

Danuta's Journey From Kresy/Poland to London

My name is Danuta Gradosielska Nee Maczka, and I came from Poland to Britain - via Siberia, the Middle...

The Jewish Brigade

Prior to it's takeover by the Nazis Losice had a Jewish population of 2900 many of whom perished in...

My Journey

I had to decide wether to fight for poland or for Germany... We had to trek from Russia to France and then...

Wonderful

I had to decide wether to fight for poland or for Germany... We had to trek from Russia to France and then...

POW Russian Slave Labour Camps

Polish Army 1939 taken POW by Russian soldiers POW in Russian Slave Labour Camp....

Escaping from Russia

When the germans attacked the Russians took all the school children back to Russia for 18 months. I was 15...

Escape from Siberia

Due to the climate of Siberia being extremly cold, the bodies had to be stacked up....

Exile

10th February 1940 we'd been taken from home in Poland to camp in Ural Mountains. We travelled by...

After The War Part 2

After The War Part 5