Updated May 20, 2004.
Polish
Embassy in Teheran, Iran
Confirmation of deaths in Iran of Poles evacuated
from the USSR in 1942 with Anders Army and their
burials in the Polish Cemetery in Teheran, which
is watched over by the Polish Embassy.
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Polish
Committee of the 'Memorial' Society (Moscow)
Soviet Archive information on Poles arrested or
deported to the USSR, including deportation and
camp records and archives 'certificates'.
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Hoover
Institution Archives
Hoover Institution Summary
(MS Word Document)
Three significant holdings:
1. Poland. Ambasada (Soviet Union) Records,
1941-1944
2. Poland. Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji
Records, 1939-1945
3. Wladyslaw Anders Papers, 1939-1946
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Polish
Army in Exile Records-British Ministry of Defense
To obtain war records of soldier in the Polish
Army fighting alongside the Allies in World War
2, (eg, the 2nd Polish Corpus (Anders Army),
attached to the British 8th Army in Persia,
Palestine and Italy), write to the British Army
records office.
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The Polish
Institute and Sikorski Museum
The foundation is a research and publishing
institution and possesses the largest Polish
Military Museum outside of Poland. It
incorporates the Polish Armed Forces Standards,
the Ealing Branch-Historical Commission and the
Home Army Study Centre.
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Church
records (marriages etc.) applying to the Polish
forces in Italy during the war
Polish Catholic Mission (in England and Wales)
Polska Misja Katolicka (w Anglii i Walii)
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How to
get pre-war maps of Poland, including Kresy
View
the map images on this website
The US Library of Congress has an index map for
pre-WWII maps of Poland, including what is now
Belarus and western Ukraine. The index map number
is G6520S100.P6, Wojskowy Institut Geograficzny:
Skorowidz Map. You identify and choose the
specific section maps that you wish from it.
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Jozef
Pilsudski Institute of America for Research in
the Modern History of Poland
Founded in 1943, one of the largest Polish ethnic
archives in the USA. This archival collection is
of great significance for studies on Polish
political history in XX century. Large photograph
and map collection
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Detailed
map of Western Ukraine, including Kresy
There is a very good map located at
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/soviet_maps.html
which includes areas that were part of Poland
once (eg. Wolyn).
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Association
of Poles in India 1942-1948
The Association has produced, in Polish, an
in-depth book of their experiences called 'Poles
in India 1942-1948 in the Light of Documents and
Memory'. They are working on a revision and
translation into English.
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Genealogy of
Eastern Galicia
This site is for those with roots in Eastern
Galicia. It focuses on genealogical study for
those researching their Polish (and Ukrainian)
roots in Eastern Galicia /Halychyna / Western
Ukraine.
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Routes to Roots
Foundation
This site includes a searchable database (by town
name) of archive documents for towns in Belarus,
Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Ukraine based upon
the archival holdings of these countries.
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KARTA Center Foundation
The KARTA Center in Poland is an independent,
non-governmental group that exists to document and popularise
the recent history of Poland and eastern Europe, with the aim
of spreading knowledge, tolerance and democracy. It works closely
with the Polish Committee of the Memorial Society in Moscow
and has established an 'Index of the Repressed' database of
Polish victims of the Soviet Union.
Some suggestions as to how to access this information:
Go to http://www.karta.org.pl/Default.asp?jezyk=2 and click
on Data Bases, which brings up a sub-menu.< Click on "Index
of the Repressed" which brings up a Polish-language site with
four tabs. Press Wyszukiwanie, then fill out the search form
that is provided. Nazwisko means surname. IMPORTANT: Using the
~ to represent an accented Polish letter will not work on the
KARTA site. You must use true Polish script. If you are unsuccessful
then use variations of your name spelling. Under "Wyniki wyszukiwania"
note any information especially the important Id number(s).
Then, send this information to Pani Katarzyna Janiak at the
link below with your search request. (English is fine)
Email: Pani Katarzyna Janiak
Non-Polish speakers will find this link
by Steve Morse helpful
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Association
of the Families of the Borderland Settlers
Sekretariat Ognisko Rodzin Osadnikow Kresowych
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Federation
of the Eastern Borderlands of the Polish Republic
Zwiazek Ziem Wschodnich RP
Association of former settlers (military veterans
and civilians)of the Kresy region of eastern
Poland between the wars.
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5th Borderlands
Infantry Division Association
Zwiazek Zolnierzy 5-tej Dyw. Piechoty
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Polish
Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
For help with searching for burials in Polish
Cemeteries in Uzbekistan, which are watched over
by the Polish Embassy.
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Rada Ochrony
Pamieci Walki i Meczeństwa
All overseas Polish cemeteries are the
responsibility of this Association, and it is
possible to obtain information from them when
seeking the whereabouts of individual graves.
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Vital records from southern Kresy
Vital records from the former provinces of Lwow,
Stanislawow, and Tarnopol. These were in Austrian
Galicia before 1918, in the Second Republic of
Poland between 1918 and 1939 and in the western
Ukraine since 1945.
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Detailed map of the Ukraine online
Ukraine is broken into regions, and these into
areas surrounding major towns. Place names appear
in English, Polish and Ukrainian.
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Association of Eastern Borderlands Military
& Civilian Settlers Families
Stowarzyszenie Rodzin Osadników
Wojskowych i Cywilnych Kresów Wschodnich
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