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Re: Do records exist of Polish WWII prisoners in Stalin's gulags?
Rebecca CollierJan 30, 2018 11:18 AM (in response to Renata Dash)
2 people found this helpfulDear Ms. Dash,
Thank you for contacting the History Hub!
The records you seek are not in the custody of the U.S. National Archives. We suggest that you begin by contacting the State Archives of Poland via https://www.archiwa.gov.pl/pl/ and the Federal'naia arkhivnaia sluzhba Rossii (Rosarkhiv) [Federal Archival Service of Russia], ul. Il'inka 12, 103132 Moscow, Russia.
We hope this information is helpful. Best of luck with your research!
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Re: Do records exist of Polish WWII prisoners in Stalin's gulags?
Aaron SeltzerJan 30, 2018 1:58 PM (in response to Renata Dash)
2 people found this helpfulDear Ms. Dash,
In addition to the other specified non-NARA resources,if you have not previously done so you may be interested in accessing archival resources concerning Anders' Army at the Hoover Institute Library and Archive. These are records which are currently being digitized and are also currently in the process of a version of their contents being translated from Polish to English.
In addition to information about your grandmother and some of the children, these records may also shed light of their experiences in the gulag and what happened to their families.
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Re: Do records exist of Polish WWII prisoners in Stalin's gulags?
Renata Dash Jan 30, 2018 3:29 PM (in response to Aaron Seltzer)How can I thank you enough for this information? I am communicating with a
historian in Poland who has been kind enough to help me search into my
family history, I was just telling him that I need to research more with
regard to Ander's Army. I know that my mother and her family that survived
the gulag (many did not) were able to leave Russia with Ander's Army as I
found a list on line that identifies people who were able to do so, and
they are on that list. Your email to me came in as I was using Google
Translate to translate my email into Polish to send to my Polish historian
friend.
Your article helps to connect a couple more "dots" for me. I found a
picture of "a man" in a military uniform with writing on the back of it.
The writing is in Polish, and translated it is written to my mother from
her (older) brother. A brother I never knew existed, and one that I have
been trying to research, find and understand. I had felt that perhaps my
family was able to leave because this man, her brother, joined forces with
other Poles to help defeat Hitler. I still have not been able to verify
(or quite frankly to even find anything), but I will continue to look.
Perhaps I can later post a picture of this "mystery man" and someone might
be able to verify the uniform (which would help keep me moving in the right
direction). The picture is signed, dated, and indicated as coming from
Italy.
I am fascinated by this website, and I cannot wait to post pictures of
documents of information that I have found pertaining to my parents, in the
hope that perhaps my documents can help lead other people to information on
their own families. While my mother and her family were imprisoned under
Stalin, my father was in forced labor under Hitler. I have so much to
figure out and study given how little each of my parent (long deceased)
spoke of their tragic days. I found many documents and pictures following
their deaths.
Thank you again.
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