Members from around the world at https://www.facebook.com/groups/KresySiberiaGroup
Research, Remember & Recognize Poland's citizens and their fight for survival and freedom against Soviet Russian, N**i German and Nationalist Ukrainian forces in eastern Poland and in forced exile during World War II. Please support Kresy-Siberia's work by donating at www.tinyurl.com/Donate-to-KSVM.
Officially registered charitable foundation in Warszawa, Poland, with affiliated charities in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA (see details)
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Tehran Polish Red Cross Camp (1943)
Tiny Pole sitting in the dormitory step of a United States Red Cross evacuee camp
Photos from Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru's post
Kresy Siberia was one of 2 Diaspora groups chosen for the project "Diaspora Memories and the Virtual Museum: Remembering Lost Homelands"
Tim Bucknall was interviewed by researchers last year on our behalf.
the results of the study will be presented this afternoon
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
13:15 14:05
https://www.disterrmem.eu/events/diaspora-memories-and-the-virtual-museum-remembering-lost-homelands
about the project
https://www.disterrmem.eu/project/about
A virtual (Zoom) DisTerrMem seminar, presenting research carried out with two diasporic memory organisations, Kresy-Siberia and Houshamadyan, both of which have developed online platforms to collect and share information about lost homelands.
On the 20th Anniversary of the creation of Kresy-Siberia - we are thrilled to unveil the newly re-built virtual museum at https://Kresy-Siberia.org in time for the commemorations on the 17 September 2021.
As you know we have been working extremely hard for well over a year now on a total rebuild of our virtual museum to bring the computer programming up-to-date which will ensure the preservation of the platform into the future. This has meant creating an entirely new word press platform and then migrating every single item (every photo, every biography, every testimony, every document, every gallery etc) from the old platform over to the new one.
A huge thank you to our wonderful Shelley Upton for her tireless work and dedication in building the new site. We may still have a few items to iron out, including translations, but Shelley is still hard at work 🙂
Thanks also to Stefan Wisniowski and Irena Lowe.
Please visit and let us know your thoughts.
Breaking news: Cash benefit for Sybiraks confirmed
On August 15, 2020. The President of the Republic of Poland signed the Act of August 14, 2020 on the cash benefit for persons deported or deported by the authorities of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the years 1936–1956. (print number: 452).
Below is information on the most important provisions of the act:
I. A monetary benefit is granted to a person who, on the basis of the Act of 24 January 1991 on Veterans and Certain Persons Who Are Victims of War Repression and the Post-War Period (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 517), received the decision of the Head of the Office for Veterans Affairs and Repressed Persons confirming the period of stay:
a) in captivity or in internment camps and in camps subordinate to the Main Board for Prisoners of War and Interned Affairs (GUPWI) of the NKVD, and from March 1946 to the USSR MWD, and camps subordinate to the NKVD Control and Filtering Camps Department, and from March 1946 to the MWD Of the USSR, caused by the veterans' activity referred to in Art. 1 clause 2 of the Act of 24 January 1991 on Veterans and Certain Persons Who Are Victims of War Repression and the Post-War Period, or
b) in prisons and correctional labor camps and correctional labor colonies subordinate to the Main Board of Correctional Camps and Camps (GULag) of the NKVD, and from March 1946, the USSR MVD, caused by the activities referred to in Art. 1 clause 2 and art. 2 of the Act of 24 January 1991 on Veterans and Certain Persons Who Are Victims of War Repression and the Post-War Period, or
c) for political, religious and national reasons:
- in prisons and correctional labor camps and correctional labor colonies subordinate to the Main Board of Camps and Correctional Camps of the NKVD, and from March 1946, the USSR MWD, or
- on forced exile and deportation in the USSR.
II. The cash benefit is awarded for the repression that took place in 1936-1956.
III. A cash benefit is not payable to a person who has received compensation or redress under Art. 8 sec. 2a of the Act of February 23, 1991 on declaring invalid judgments issued against persons repressed for activities for the sake of the independent existence of the Polish State (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 2099 and of 2019, item 1952).
IV. The cash benefit is granted to a person with Polish citizenship on the date of submitting the application for granting the cash benefit.
V. The cash benefit is granted, by way of an administrative decision, by the Head of the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression, at the request of a person with veteran rights under one of the titles listed above for the period 1936-1956.
VI. The application must be accompanied by:
- a copy of the document confirming Polish citizenship
and
- a declaration of not obtaining compensation or redress pursuant to art. 8 sec. 2a of the Act of February 23, 1991 on declaring invalid judgments issued against repressed persons for activities for the sake of the independent existence of the Polish State.
VII. The cash benefit is granted once in the amount of PLN 200 for each month of the period of repression in the years 1936-1956 in the USSR, confirmed by the decision of the Head of the Office for Veterans and Repressed Persons on granting veteran rights. The amount of the cash benefit cannot be lower than PLN 2,400. The amount of the benefit is not taxable.
VIII. The cash benefit is paid by the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression within one month from the date of delivery of the decision on granting the cash benefit.
IX. The cash benefit may be paid by transfer to a bank account, an account in a savings and credit union or by postal order to the address indicated in the application. Due to security reasons, we recommend you to use the transfer method.
X. Application forms for the award of a cash benefit along with a declaration of failure to obtain compensation or redress pursuant to Art. 8 sec. 2a of the Act of February 23, 1991 on declaring invalid judgments issued against persons repressed for activities for the sake of the independent existence of the Polish state will be made available on the website of the Office and sent to the Main Board of the Association of Siberians immediately after signing the act by the President of the Republic of Poland and its publication in the Journal of Laws.
http://www.kombatanci.gov.pl/pl/uprawnienia/sybiracy.html
W dniu 15 sierpnia br. Prezydent RP podpisał ustawę z dnia 14 sierpnia 2020 r. o świadczeniu pieniężnym przysługującym osobom zesłanym lub deportowanym przez władze Związku Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich w latach 1936–1956. (numer druku: 452).
Przyjaciele w Polsce! Zapisaliśmy się z Fanimani, aby udostępnić Wam łatwy i bezpłatny sposób wspierać naszą działalność Fundacji Kresy-Syberia.
Wystarczy, że zainstalujesz Przypominajkę, a przed każdymi zakupami na internecie wyświetli się Ci podpowiedź jeśli wybrany sklep bierze udział w akcji.
Po wejściu na stronę sklepu internetowego zobaczysz komunikat, przez który aktywujesz darowiznę.
Po aktywacji darowizny robisz zakupy jak zwykle i płacisz tyle co zwykle.
Co trzy miesiące, darowizny (w wysokości średnio 2.5% zakupów) będą przelane na konto fundacji.
https://fanimani.pl/kresy-syberia/wspieram/?beneficiary_id=23929
Wspieraj nas bezpłatnie przy okazji zakupów on-line!
We have just received notification of this interesting conference in Washington, which will be live-streamed. Details below:
„POLAND FIRST TO FIGHT" HISTORY CONFERENCE
Live-streamed direct
from National Press Club, Washington, DC
November 18-20, 2019
You are cordially invited to join us at our National Press Club, Washington D.C. „POLAND FIRST TO FIGHT" History Conference. The 3-day event will be live-streamed in its entirety at https://video.ibm.com/channel/cUSKBMQRQCw.
Conference live-stream schedule
DAY 1 - November 18, 2019 at 12:15 pm EST - 5:00 pm EST
(18:15 - 23:15 Warsaw time).
DAY 2 - November 19, 2019 at 8:20 am EST - 5:00 pm EST
(14:20 - 19:20 Warsaw time).
DAY 3 - November 20, 2019 at 8:00 am EST - 10:50 am EST
(14:00 - 16:50 Warsaw time).
Program of the Conference
DAY 1:
WORLD WAR II FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
11:30 am Registration of participants & lunch
12:15 pm Opening of the conference:
Prof. Marek Kornat, Chair of Program Committee
Dr. Marek Błażejak, Chair of Executive Committee
Richard Widerynski, former president of the Polish American Congress of Southern California, conference moderator
12:30 pm - Keynote speech by Prof. Mieczyslaw Biskupski - University of Connecticut
1:00 pm - Stacey Fitzgerald - Persecution and Resistance of Polish Women: KL Ravensbrück
1:20 pm - Christoph Schwarz, Kidnapping and germanization of Polish children by N**i Germany
1:40 pm - Prof. Kazimierz Braun - Polish theatre in the time of war (1939-1945) – Fight–Losses–Will to Survive
2:00 pm - Kenneth K. Koskodan - No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II
2:20 pm - Marcin Makowski - World War II in computer games – viable educational tool or rewriting the past?
2:40 pm - Questions & Answers
3:00 pm- Break
TESTIMONIES OF WITNESSES OF HISTORY AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
3:30 pm - Tim Holden, Polish airmen in World War II
3:50 pm, Anu Radha, “A Little Poland in India” – Rescue of Polish children and women during WWII by an Indian Maharaja
4:10 pm -Krystyna Zamorska, Ph.D. - The KL system in the German war economy: KL Stutthof, the”forgotten” camp
4:30 pm - Questions & Answers
5:00 pm - End of the 1st day of the conference
6:00 pm Reception at the Indian Embassy where “A Little Poland in India” movie will be shown (invitation only)
DAY 2:
FROM THE THE RIBBENTROP-MOLOTOV PACTS TO WORLD WAR II AND THE OCCUPATION OF POLAND BY N**I GERMANY AND SOVIET RUSSIA
8:00 am -Registration of participants & breakfast
8:20 am - Presentation of the documentary “In the footsteps of Slaughter of Wola“ about the massacre of thousands of Polish civilians during the Warsaw Uprising, directed by Grzegorz Kutermankiewicz
9:00 am - Prof. Marek Kornat - Two totalitarian powers against Poland – The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact (August – September 1939)
9:20 am - Prof. Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska - Poland and her Allies. 1939 (presentation in Polish, simultaneously interpreted to English)
9:40 am -Dr. Ing. Bruno Wasser - Generalplan Ost (Master Plan for the East)
10:00 am, Prof. Tadeusz Wolsza - Katyn massacre and Katyn lie in the international arena (presentation in Polish, simultaneously interpreted to English)
10:20 am - Questions & Answers
10:40 am - Break
11:00 am - Prof. Mariusz Wołos - Polish-Soviet relationship during World War II – stereotypes and reality
11:20 am - Dr. Rafał Łatka - Polish Catholic Church in occupied Poland
11:40 am - Prof. Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski - Contribution of the Polish Intelligence Service to the Allied Victory over Germany in World War Two
12:00 am - Questions & Answers
12:20 am -Lunch break
INFOWARS
1:20 pm - Prof. Mieczyslaw Biskupski - Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945
1:40 pm - Prof. Norman Domeier - Collaboration between Associated Press and N**i Germany
2:00 pm - Dan Zamoyski - Distortion of Polish World War II history by the media, academia and politicians and its consequences. Auschwitz survey
2:20 pm - Prof. Peter Paprzycki, Prof. Christine Fox & Prof. Svetlana Beltyukova - The application of a Rasch model in the study of external perceptions of the role of Poland in the World War Two; the value of a psychometric approach
2:40 pm - Questions & Answers
3:00 pm - Break
POLES AND JEWS DURING WORLD WAR TWO
3:20 pm - Prof. Grzegorz Berendt - Poles and Jews under German occupation. Gross’s thesis reconsidered
3:40 pm - Prof. Bogdan Musiał - Who will help a Jew? (presentation in Polish, simultaneously interpreted to English)
4:00 pm - Questions & answers
5:00 pm - End of the 2nd day of the conference
6.30 pm reception at the Embassy of Poland (invitation only)
DAY 3:
POLAND, A BETRAYED ALLY
8:00 am - Presentation of the documentary My Home India, a little-known story of unimaginable humanity, generosity and kindness offered by India towards thousands of Polish WW2 Siberian orphans. Directed by Anjali Bhushan based on research of Małgorzata Czausow. Skype connection with the Indian director
8:50 am - Prof. Krzysztof Kosiński - National movement in occupied Poland – negative stereotypes
9:10 am - Prof. Danusha V. Goska - Negative sterotypes of Poles in popular American culture
9:30 am - Prof. Sean McMeekin - Making Stalin Happy – Allies Betrayal of Poland
9:50 am - Alberto Trujillo - Perception of Poland in the Second World War in the Spanish speaking world
10:00 am - Panel discussion*, Distorting the history of World War II
Moderator of the discussion: Marcin Makowski, journalist
Confirmed panelists:
– Prof. Andrzej Kaminski – historian, professor emeritus Georgetown university
– Alberto Trujillo – founder and president of the Polish-Spanish Historical and Cultural Association “Poland First to Fight”
– Stefan Komar – son of a Warsaw Uprising insurgent whose Battalion Zośka was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal for liberating Gesiowka concentration camp in Poland’s capital, Stefan Komar has been fighting for years against historically false and offensive terms like “Polish death camps”, among others as a member of the Polish Media Issues group
10:50 End of the conference
Sincerely,
Members of the organizing Committee:
-Marek Blazejak
-Edward Wojciech Jesman
-Stanislaw Sliwowski
-Krystyna Zamorska
-Artur Zysk
The conference will take place at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. The Club is a professional organization and social community for journalists and communications professionals Where News Happens.
🇬🇧Presenting the full set of our 2-day GENERATIONS REMEMBER 2019 Conference proceedings:
🇵🇱Przedstawiamy prelekcje z naszej dwu-dniowej konferencji PAMIĘĆ POKOLEŃ 2019r:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfkXPVPExDInrSZegRUs79o-QrcJRuB6Z
Mogą Was zainteresować program oraz profile prelegentów naszej konferencji "PAMIĘĆ POKOLEŃ", która odbędzie się w dniach 14-15 września w Warszawie. Planujemy, aby był on także transmitowany na żywo na Youtube, więc czekaj na szczegółowe informacje na ten temat :
http://www.xn--pamipokole-thb9s0u.org/
You may be interested in program and speaker profiles for our GENERATIONS REMEMBER conference on 14-15 September in Warsaw. We plan to have it also livecast on Youtube, so stand by for details on that: www.GenerationsRemember.org
Wilno Church records now available online
https://kresy24.pl/uwaga-stare-ksiegi-parafialne-diecezji-wilenskiej-od-jesieni-w-wersji-cyfrowej/
Bieżące wydarzenia i publikacje z Białorusi, Litwy, Ukrainy, Rosji i innych krajów byłego ZSRR. Historia i kultura dawnych Polskich Kresów. Życie Polaków na Wschodzie dawniej i dziś. Szukanie swoich korzeni na Kresach. Najnowsze i archiwalne numery podziemnej polskiej prasy z Białorusi w w...
Once a year on August 1st, people of Warsaw pay homage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. (The Battle for Warsaw).
While the city's residents battled their German occupiers for 63 days, a Polish army of former prisoners released from Soviet captivity was forced by their Soviet commanders to stand by powerlessly across the river. The biggest rebellion against German N**i occupation during WWII cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
Source: studio Akcja.tv
Magda Wieczorkowska-Klecel /reżyser
Jan Klecel / producent kreatywny
Produkcja Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa Maciej Ślesicki, Jarosław Grzymała.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJgQkSAz_Q&feature=autoplay
1 sierpnia Pamiętamy. WOLNOŚĆ ŁĄCZY - - - Z okazji 73. rocznicy Powstania Warszawskiego mieliśmy zaszczyt zrealizować na zlecenie Muzeum Powstania Warszawski...
Once a year on August 1st, people of Warsaw pay homage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. (The Battle for Warsaw).
While the city's residents battled their German occupiers for 31 days, a Polish army of former prisoners released from Soviet captivity was forced by their Soviet commanders to stand by powerlessly across the river. The biggest rebellion against German N**i occupation during WWII cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
Source: studio Akcja.tv
Magda Wieczorkowska-Klecel /reżyser
Jan Klecel / producent kreatywny
Produkcja Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa Maciej Ślesicki, Jarosław Grzymała.
Fundacja Kresy-Syberia współpracowała z Przedstawicielstwem w Polsce UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency. Zdjęcia z Wirtualnego Muzeum Kresy-Syberia były użytkowane w produkcji kalendarza 2019 r. pt. "Nie tylko Paderewski. Polskie uchodźstwo w XX wieku – Not just Paderewski. Polish refugees in 20th century"
Wpłynęło do nas pismo!
Dzień dobry
W związku z zakończeniem prezentowania wystawy o Korpusie Ochrony Pogranicza w Skansenie Rzeki Pilicy (filii MCK) w Tomaszowie Maz., chciałbym bardzo podziękować oraz złożyć wyrazy szacunku twórcom i organizatorom Wirtualnego Muzeum "Kresy - Syberia" jak i tej niezwykłej wystawy.
Była ona prezentowana w Skansenie bez mała 8 miesięcy a obejrzało ją ok. 11.500 gości, w tym tysiące dzieci i młodzieży. Wystawa przybliżyła tysiącom Polaków (w tym w dużej mierze młodego pokolenia), wciąż mało znany rozdział naszej historii, jakim były dzieje KOP, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem bohaterskich walk tej formacji w pamiętnym Wrześniu 1939 r.
Zdjęcia i opisy przedstawione na planszach są dowodem na ogrom pracy badawczej wykonanej przez twórców wystawy, wystawiając im piękną kartę w ratowaniu, zapisywaniu i przybliżaniu mniej znanych kart naszej historii. Wystawa jest jednocześnie wspaniałym świadectwem patriotyzmu tysięcy Polaków, którzy swoje życie i zdrowie poświęcali służbie Ojczyźnie oraz stanowi piękny dowód, że pamięć o nich będzie trwała "póki my żyjemy".
Jeszcze raz bardzo serdecznie dziękuję.
Z wyrazami szacunku-
Zbigniew Cichawa
Kierownik Skansenu Rzeki Pilicy (filii MCK) w Tomaszowie Maz.
[email protected]
www.skansenpilicy.pl
tel. (44) 723-00-03
tel. kom. 517-080-381
Remembering the Katyn Massacres , Cannock Chase, Central England
Gratulujemy naszym kolegom i uszanowanym współpracownikom w tworzeniu Wirtualnego Muzeum i naszych powiązanych działaności, że zostali powołani do Rady Instytutu POLONIKA:
- Robert Kostro
– Tomasz Kuba Kozłowski
- prof. dr hab. Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz
– dr hab. Zbigniew Wawer
http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/powolanie-rady-instytutu-polonika-9248.php?fbclid=IwAR2QxfE0YjBI1PykuK4QGgIVYOF8akZOG23HHunrOQKxu2AUSG4KLCP34tU
We invite you to mark the 79th Anniversary of the 1940 mass deportations from the Kresy; Eastern Poland on: Sunday 10th February 2019 from 13.00 at the White Eagle Club (Biały Orzeł) 211, Balham High Road, London, SW17 7BQ.
Syberiaks /Veterans - £22, 2019 Kresy-Siberia donator £25, Others £30
(Prices same as Last Year)
(Price includes Lunch, Glass of Wine or Soft Drink and Entertainment).
For reservations and payment details please send an email to [email protected] or ring/text her on 07973 792253 by Friday 1st February 2019
All proceeds support the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum (www.kresy-siberia.org/museum)
PLEASE DONATE! Click here to help preserve the memory of Poland's citizens fighting for freedom and survival in eastern Poland ("Kresy") and in exile during World War II
Nie pozwól, aby pamięć o nich zginęła
Wirtualne Muzeum Kresy-Syberia potrzebuje wasze wsparcie, aby zachować i przedstawić wspomnienia Polaków walczących o przetrwanie i wolność na Kresach Wschodnich oraz na przymusowym wygnaniu w okresie II wojny światowej.
http://kresy-siberia.org/museum/pl/donate/https://mailchi.mp/kresy-siberia.org/your-new-years-action-requested-final-hours-2243445
Don't Let Their Memories Die!
��The Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum needs your support to keep on preserving and presenting the individual life histories, photos and filmed testimonies of Poland's people fighting for survival and freedom in eastern Poland and in forced exile during World War II.
http://kresy-siberia.org/museum/donate/https://mailchi.mp/kresy-siberia.org/your-new-years-action-requested-final-hours-2243409
Don't Let Their Memories Die!��
The Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum needs your support to keep on preserving and presenting the individual life histories, photos and filmed testimonies of Poland's people fighting for survival and freedom in eastern Poland and in forced exile during World War II.
http://kresy-siberia.org/museum/donate/https://mailchi.mp/kresy-siberia.org/new-years-2019-action-requested
Don't Let Their Memories Die!��The Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum needs your support to keep on preserving and presenting the individual life histories, photos and filmed testimonies of Poland's people fighting for survival and freedom in eastern Poland and in forced exile during World War II.
http://kresy-siberia.org/museum/donate/https://mailchi.mp/kresy-siberia.org/your-new-years-action-requested-2243433
To our British friends: your New Year's action is requested - https://mailchi.mp/6903115ff6d6/your-new-years-action-requested-final-hours-2243349
Here is our December Bulletin along with an important plea for support - https://mailchi.mp/0fd35d4caad5/your-new-years-action-requested-final-hours
We are now officially in the 24-hour race to get as much donated as possible for Kresy-Siberia! For every donation made online at the below link, GlobalGiving will grant us a bonus donation. Every dollar counts! But we are in a competition for these bonuses against hundreds of other charities and need your help. So please give whatever you can no matter how small - every dollar counts! Thank you! https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/kresy-siberia-keep-their-memory-alive/
Drodzy koledzy. Za chwile, tzn. o północy czasu Nowego Jorku, rozpoczyna się jedno-dobowa kampania darczyńca na rzecz naszej działalności. Za każdą złotówkę darowaną przed Was, fundacja GlobalGiving nam podaruje dodatkową dotację. Ale w tym mamy konkurencję z szeregiem innych międzynarodowych fundacji tak jak nasza.
Więc prosimy Was uprzejmie, dajcie co możecie, nawet jeśli tylko jedną złotówkę, ale dajcie coś abyśmy byli w stanie kontynuować naszą dzialalność. Kliknąć tutaj aby podarować kartą: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/kresy-siberia-keep-their-memory-alive/
Here is a slideshow version of our November 2018 report to donors.
Zapraszamy polskich kolegów i koleżanek aby usłyszeć wywiad nagrany z prezesem fundacji Stefanem Wiśniowskim, na fali Radia Lwów https://radiolwow.org/ostatnie-audycje/29.-wrzesnia-2018. Miał miejsce podczas naszej V. konferencji Pamięć Pokoleń w Warszawie w dniach 15-17 września. Nasz odcinek trwa od minuty 27:54 do 51:05.
Our Generations Remember 2018 conference streamed live now!
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Nasza konferencja "Pamięć Pokoleń" emitowane teraz na żywo!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp3mU1lI8sEeBe_iMVWPD0g/live
“GENERATIONS REMEMBER” 2018 in Warsaw - 15th September 2018
HEAD OF THE OFFICE FOR WAR VETERANS AND VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION
Jan Józef Kasprzyk
Warsaw, 12 September 2018
Dear Sir
Stefan Wiśniowski
Kresy-Siberia Foundation President
Dear President,
Please accept my cordial thanks for the invitation to the "Generations Remember" conference. At the same time, I would like to inform you that I will not be able to participate in it because I have made other commitments during this time.
I would like to thank you for all the initiatives taken by the Foundation to preserve the memory of the fate of the Sybiraks. Kresy - Siberia are two stops on the route of exiles marked with graves. For those who survived the exile, the road continued into the world, on all continents. It is a great credit to the Sybiraks that despite their scattering they remained an integrated environment, and what's more - they prepared their successors, thanks to which subsequent generations have joined into the activities cultivating the memory of Siberia.
In the modern world, virtual memory plays a large role in such activities, and your Foundation has read into the signs of the time very well.
I convey my warm greetings to the conference participants through you as President.
Yours sincerely,
Jan Józef Kasprzyk
Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression
ul. Wspólna 2/4, 00-926 Warsaw;
tel. 22 336-77-70; fax 22 250-52-00
www.kombatanci.gov.pl
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SZEF URZĘDU DO SPRAW KOMBATANTÓW
I OSÓB REPRESJONOWANYCH
Jan Józef Kasprzyk
Warszawa, 12 września 2018 roku
Szanowny Pan
Stefan Wiśniowski
Prezes Fundacji Kresy-Syberia
Szanowny Panie Prezesie,
Proszę o przyjęcie serdecznych podziękowań za zaproszenie na konferencję „Pamięć Pokoleń". Jednocześnie informuję, że nie będę mógł w niej uczestniczyć, gdyż podjąłem w tym czasie inne zobowiązania.
Chciałbym przy okazji podziękować za wszelkie inicjatywy podjęte przez Fundację w celu utrwalenia pamięci o losach Sybiraków. Kresy - Syberia to dwa przystanki na znaczonej mogiłami trasie zesłańców. Dla tych, którzy przeżyli zsyłkę droga powiodła dalej w świat, na wszystkie kontynenty. Jest wielką zasługą Sybiraków, że pomimo rozproszenia pozostali zintegrowanym środowiskiem, co więcej - przygotowali następców, dzięki czemu kolejne pokolenia włączyły się w nurt działań kultywujących pamięć Sybiru.
We współczesnym świecie dużą rolę w takich działaniach odgrywa pamięć wirtualna, a Państwa Fundacja bardzo dobrze te znaki czasu odczytuje.
Na ręce Pana Prezesa przekazuję gorące pozdrowienia dla uczestników konferencji.
Jan Józef Kasprzyk
Urząd do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych
ul. Wspólna 2/4, 00-926 Warszawa;
tel. 22 336-77-70; fax 22 250-52-00
www.kombatanci.gov.pl
Ulica Marszałkowska 115, P. 338
Warsaw
00-102
Legal entities, Key persons & Documents: - - - - - FUNDACJA KRESY-SYBERIA / KRESY-SIBERIA FOUNDATION: Registered in Poland KRS 0000326445 NIP 5272596392 REGON 141782163 – Founder & Foundation President: Stefan Wiśniowski – Executive Committee Chair: Anna Pacewicz – Executive Committee Member: Tim Bucknall Australia-registered charity: KRESY-SIBERIA (AUSTRALIA) LTD: Deductible Gift Recipient ABN 63136599776 Member of the Polish Community Council of Australia – Sole Member: Fundacja Kresy-Syberia / Kresy-Siberia Foundation – Chair of Directors: Stefan Wiśniowski – Secretary: Anna Pacewicz – Treasurer: Robert Czernkowski New Zealand team: KRESY-SIBERIA (NZ) Affilliated with the Polish Association of New Zealand – South Island Representative: Irena Lowe – North Island Representative: Jackie Rzepka UK-registered charity: KRESY-SIBERIA (UK) Registered Charity 1137210 Member of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain – Sole Member: Fundacja Kresy-Syberia / Kresy-Siberia Foundation – Chair of Trustees: Stefan Wiśniowski – Secretary: Iwona Krasoń – Treasurer: Marek Krasoń – Trustee: Anna Pacewicz – Trustee: Tim Bucknall US-registered 501(c)3 affiliate: GLOBAL GIVING https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/23584/ EIN: 30‑0108263 Project #: 23584 - - - - - KRESY-SIBERIA Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/groups/KresySiberiaGroup/ Group admins: - Halina Ablamowicz (USA) - Teresa Basinski Eckford (Canada) - Barbara Gdowski (Australia) - Barbara Gillett (Australia) - Lisa Frizzle (USA) - Bozena Brzeczek Masters (UK) - Anna Pacewicz(Australia) - Alexa Topolski (USA) - Stefan Wiśniowski (Australia) - - - - - - The following documents are available at www.facebook.com/groups/KresySiberiaDocuments/: 01. Kresy-Siberia Code of Conduct 02. Statut Fundacji Kresy-Syberia 03. Kresy-Siberia Foundation Statutes (English translation) 04. Wyciąg KRS ~ National Court Register excerpt
The Kresy Siberia Virtual Museum www.Kresy-Siberia.org captures the history and experiences of the Polish citizens fighting for freedom and survival in eastern Poland and in exile during World War II.
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Remembering the Katyn Massacres , Cannock Chase, Central England
We are now officially in the 24-hour race to get as much donated as possible for Kresy-Siberia! For every donation made online at the below link, GlobalGiving will grant us a bonus donation. Every dollar counts! But we are in a competition for these bonuses against hundreds of other charities and need your help. So please give whatever you can no matter how small - every dollar counts! Thank you! https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/kresy-siberia-keep-their-memory-alive/
Drodzy koledzy. Za chwile, tzn. o północy czasu Nowego Jorku, rozpoczyna się jedno-dobowa kampania darczyńca na rzecz naszej działalności. Za każdą złotówkę darowaną przed Was, fundacja GlobalGiving nam podaruje dodatkową dotację. Ale w tym mamy konkurencję z szeregiem innych międzynarodowych fundacji tak jak nasza. Więc prosimy Was uprzejmie, dajcie co możecie, nawet jeśli tylko jedną złotówkę, ale dajcie coś abyśmy byli w stanie kontynuować naszą dzialalność. Kliknąć tutaj aby podarować kartą: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/kresy-siberia-keep-their-memory-alive/
The Story Of The Polish Children In Esfahan - Iran 1942-1944.
This is the record of an event presented by Kresy-Siberia (Australia) Ltd. and the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants Inc. on 27 February 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. In 1940-41 over 1 million Polish citizens of Jewish, Catholic and other faiths and ethnicities from eastern Poland were killed, repressed or deported by the Soviets to prisons, forced labour camps (GULAGs) and "special settlements" in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. ASPJ and Kresy-Siberia (Australia) presented a panel discussion with Siberian exile survivors and their descendants. Moderator: Prof. Stephen G. Wheatcroft, FASSA, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne. Panel: Krystyna Kinst, Zosia Skarbek and Stefan Wisniowski. Film screening: "A Forgotten Odyssey" by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. Special guest: Daniel Gromann, Consul General of the Republic of Poland, speaking on "Polish History Today". Date: 27 February 2011. Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 13-15 Selwyn St, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia. ---------------------------- About the participants: Moderator, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft took his first degree in Economics and Russian Studies at Keele University, and his PhD in Soviet Economic History at Birmingham University. He has spent some considerable time working and researching in the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian State and Party Archives and at the Moscow Institute of National Economics (Plekhanov Institute), the Moscow State University and the Institute of History of the Russian and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Stephen has published widely on Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history and has recently co-authored a major history of the Soviet Famine of 1931-3. He also has a research interest in famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society. He is one of the main editors of the major Russian pub
Emisja TVP Polonia o zjeździe i konferencji "Pamięć Pokoleń" 2016r. w Warszawie. [żródło: http://polonia24.tvp.pl/27038817/sybiracy]
The non-profit Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum [Kresy-Siberia.org] costs tens of thousands of dollars to operate. With no funding in 2016, the financial situation is critical. Please make a donation to continue the important work to research, remember and recognize Poland’s citizens fighting for freedom and survival in eastern Poland and in exile during World War II.
Olivia Alford reads her poem on Katyn at the 75th Anniversary commemorations at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire on 17th May 2015
Roll Call and Salvo of Honour at the 75th Anniversary memorial ceremony of the mass murder of 22 thousand Polish officers, policemen and public servants - held at one of the mass grave sites, in Bykownia, Ukraine.
The beginning of the Ceremony at the Polish Cemetery in Monte Cassino. Every Scout held a red poppy.
Officially registered charitable foundation in Warszawa, Poland, with Virtual Museum at www.Kresy-Siberia.org and members from around the world
Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN
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Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN
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