Mr Bobby, Please learn from Europe history that now Ukrainian territories before WWII were mostly in Poland boundaries so they were Polish citizens but they could speak as well Polish as Ukrainian language. At Northern border? of Poland before WWII? people spoke Polish, Lithuanian,? White Russian,? Hebrew? even German language. KUPER? family name comes? also in New York area, Pittsburg in Pensylvania and now one of this family member moved temporary to Mexico. Theirs ancestors came also from Poland. Marian -----Original Message----- From: bobbysushi@gmail.com To: polska.research@gmail.com; polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 2:19 pm Subject: Re: [PBS] Oleksiuk / Kuper Hi Tim, My mother told me that her father (wasyl) was in a concentration camp. Unfortunatley, she doesnt know of anymore information, and perhaps information on this will be held at the Australian Archives. I have enquired about getting papers from the Australian Archives, as you suggested. My mother and her brothers and sisters were bought up in Australia, and besides english, they learnt how to speak Ukrainian at home through their mother and father. This would suggest that even though my grandparents were born in Poland, they either moved to Ukraine in the early years of schooling, or they had Ukraine Parents and perhaps lived in a Ukraine community in Poland. So i'm not sure exaclty how the Ukraine speaking comes into it. And then Germany seems to come into the equation, when in 1946 my grandparents married in Nurnberg.... Thanks. Bobby. ------------------------------- 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 ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com