Barbara
You will find details of where your Ryszkowski family was deported to here:
Edmund Ryszkowski
Waclawa Ryszkowska
Czeslaw Ryszkowski
Mieczyslaw Ryszkowski
Wladyslaw Ryszkowski
Jozefa Chocian, the mother of Kresy-Siberia group member, Basia Glinski, was deported to the same labour camp as the Ryszkowski family ¨C Stiepanowka.
May I ask where you obtained the Metryka Zgonu for Mieczyslaw Ryszkowski?
My grandparents Jozef and Ewa Lis died in Czirakczi in Feb 1942, leaving my father and aunt orphaned. If not for soldiers from the 18th Regiment 6LDP under the command of Major Jan Lachowicz, who collected orphaned Polish children from the region around Czirakczi and transported them out of the USSR in March 1942, my father and aunt may have languished in a Russian orphanage for the rest of their lives.
We have no documents for the deaths of Jozef and Ewa and understood that only the deaths of those who enlisted in the Polish Army were recorded.
Kind regards
Halina (NZ)
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--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., "Barbara" <barb_001@...> wrote:
Dear Group
Hope you can help me. I am trying to find out the name of the place in the Urals where my father and his family were deported by the Russians. My father Wladyslaw Ryszkowski, his two brothers Czeslaw and Edmund, and his parents Mieczyslaw and Waclawa, were living in Marcinkance, Nr Grodno, where my grandfather was a Forest Ranger (Lesniczy).
They were one of the first families in the area to be arrested by the Russians and were deported in February 1940. As far as I know they ended up working in forests chopping down trees.(Oh, how I wish I listened to the details when my father spoke about his experiences). It would also be interesting to know the route that they travelled along towards their Gehenna.
My grandfather died in March 1942 from Typhoid (Tyfus Plamisty)and is buried in Czerakczi, Uzbekistan. My grandmother and her 3 sons survived,
joined the Polish Army and travelled to Teheran.
Would be grateful for any information you can give me.
Best regards
Barbara Alison Ryszkowska
London, UK
