Hi Martin,

It's so rare to come across the locations you mention.? My father came from Radomysl.? It's probably not beyond the bounds of possibility that your father and mine knew each other or were recognisable to each other.? My father's family went to the church in Zloczowka, perhaps as did your father's family. The church and all its records were destroyed by the Banderowcy in June 1943.

I think that Maczkowce was known simply as Jeziorany although there was an osada, Maczka Wolynska which was also known as Ferma Radomysl located between Radomysl and Bilcze.? From memory it had about 20 families. It could be the same place, perhaps...

My? father was Jozef (or Justyn) Nowicki and he was arrested on 6 February 1940, just before the deportations started.? I'm not exactly sure where he was arrested, I suspect it was in Mikolajow, not far from Odessa, but he ended up in some hellhole in Archangelsk after having had a death sentence commuted to 5 years' hard labour.? It was a lucky break for him as there must have been an administrative error at the prison in Kherson where he had been incarcerated until June 1940.?

All I know about his journey after the 'amnesty' is that he somehow ended up in Khermine and eventually found himself at Monte Cassino with the 1st Pulk Ulanow Krechowieckich.? After Ancona etc... he ended up in Dewsbury after discharge from the Polish Resettlement Corps.? We moved to Bradford in 1960 and he died in 1982.? I had emigrated to Australia by that stage and cold not attend the funeral but my sister tells me that there were hundreds of mourners, both at our house and at the chuch and cemetery, which is nice to know.

I'm not sure that you would recognise any of these names but it's worth a shot:

Teodor Nowicki (my grandfather)
Agrypina Nowicka (nee Kuceba, daughter of Jan) my grandmother

Grzegorz Nowicki (my uncle)
Tomasz Nowicki (possibly my uncle)
Motruna Nowicka (my aunt who never married)
Chewronia Nowicka - married Filip Poleszczuk who may have been a teacher in Lawrow.?



All the best

Zdzis

Runaway Bay
Queensland
Australia