Friends, I won't belabor the discussion on concentration/extermination camps beyond this note unless someone writes me personally. However there are many other considerations in addition to the two most well-known. Each of these had its own personality to accompany the atrocities. I have visited some of them and have spent time with people who survived them. I call attention to Majdanek in Lublin, as well as the city of Lublin itself including its castle where executions and tortures took place. Any internet search engine will give you more than you want to know about Majdanek or it city. Michner's "Poland", though a novel, has much information that give a vivid picture of what took place at that camp. Though not part of the geography of Poland it self, the deportations to Siberia are events that many if not most people do not know about. 1.7 million Polish citizens were taken from their homes along eastern Poland, deported to Siberia and similar regions to do slave labor in the camps there. My wife's aunt (89 yrs) is a survivor of this "Forgotten Odyssey" and my wife has compiled and written a first hand account (in Polish and English) of her 6 years without a country -- and finally being found in Africa through the efforts of the American Red Cross. A similar, true story is the young people's book "The Endless Steppe" by Esther Hautzig. It is the journey of a Lithuanian teen as she and her family were take to the camps and eventually returned to Poland after the war. It is a fine read for all ages. Two web sites that are directly related to this later, tragic facet of the story of Poles during and after WW2 are listed below. Respectfully, Gerald Cierpilowski http://www.kresy-siberia.org/ "Dedicated to researching, remembering and recognising the Polish citizens deported, enslaved and killed by the Soviet Union during World War Two" http://www.aforgottenodyssey.com/ "This site is connected to 'A Forgotten Odyssey', a recent documentary film by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. It deals with the forgotten tragedy of 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. Some 120,000 of these escaped through Persia in 1942 as soldiers of Anders Army and their families - and eventually made their way to the West because their pre-war homeland was consigned by the Allies to remain under the hated Soviet regime."

I must say, we have taken on a much more important subject matter than " stuffed-Cabbages" now Thank you all Rose Zydel Olson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Cierpilowski" <gcierpil@comcast.net> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Camps > Friends, > > I won't belabor the discussion on concentration/extermination camps > beyond this note unless someone writes me personally. However there > are many other considerations in addition to the two most well-known. > Each of these had its own personality to accompany the atrocities. I > have visited some of them and have spent time with people who survived > them. > > I call attention to Majdanek in Lublin, as well as the city of Lublin > itself including its castle where executions and tortures took place. > Any internet search engine will give you more than you want to know > about Majdanek or it city. Michner's "Poland", though a novel, has > much information that give a vivid picture of what took place at that > camp. > > Though not part of the geography of Poland it self, the deportations to > Siberia are events that many if not most people do not know about. 1.7 > million Polish citizens were taken from their homes along eastern > Poland, deported to Siberia and similar regions to do slave labor in > the camps there. My wife's aunt (89 yrs) is a survivor of this > "Forgotten Odyssey" and my wife has compiled and written a first hand > account (in Polish and English) of her 6 years without a country -- and > finally being found in Africa through the efforts of the American Red > Cross. A similar, true story is the young people's book "The Endless > Steppe" by Esther Hautzig. It is the journey of a Lithuanian teen as > she and her family were take to the camps and eventually returned to > Poland after the war. It is a fine read for all ages. > > Two web sites that are directly related to this later, tragic facet of > the story of Poles during and after WW2 are listed below. > > Respectfully, > Gerald Cierpilowski > > http://www.kresy-siberia.org/ > > "Dedicated to researching, remembering and recognising the Polish > citizens deported, enslaved and killed by the Soviet Union during World > War Two" > > http://www.aforgottenodyssey.com/ > > "This site is connected to 'A Forgotten Odyssey', a recent documentary > film by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. It deals with the forgotten > tragedy of 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and > ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, > Jewish) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special > labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. Some 120,000 of > these escaped through Persia in 1942 as soldiers of Anders Army and > their families - and eventually made their way to the West because > their pre-war homeland was consigned by the Allies to remain under the > hated Soviet regime." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >