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A Song For Kresy - A Story of war, of loss and a family's survival (Paperback)
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A Song For Kresy - A Story of war, of loss and a family's survival (Paperback)
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This is the story of one of the thousands of Polish Families who
were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan by the Soviets in 1940. The
Glindzicz family had their roots in the Eastern Borderlands of
Poland known as Kresy. The family held their lands in this region
since before the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1648). The
Glindzicz men supported all the major Polish uprisings against
Czarist Russia. Mieczyslaw Glindzicz was a local commander in the
1863 Uprising. Despite having fought loyally side by side with
Britain throughout the Second World War, when it ended, the Poles
of Kresy lost their homes and lands to the Soviet Union. Kresy was
the territory Russia took when she was an ally of Germany. The
mother of two young boys, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz as a deportee,
escaped the hardships of work on the Akmolinsk-Kartaly railway,
made her way to Guzar in Uzbekistan, crossed the Caspian Sea to
Persia, and via Teheran journeyed to Palestine where she joined the
Polish Arm in 1943. When the war ended she was demobbed in England
and met up with her sister Helena Litynska. Helena had fought with
the Polish Underground forces since 1940 and in August 1944 took a
part in the Warsaw 'Rising. She was wounded during the fighting,
captured by the Germans and imprisoned in various POW camps in
Germany. Maria's husband and her father were killed by the Russians
sometime in 1940 around the time the family was deported. Their
names are on the controversial Belarusian Katyn List. Maria lost
her three brothers in the war; Julian the youngest was arrested
with his father and was never hear of again, Roman died during the
Polish Campaign in 1939, and Stanislaw died after joining the
Polish Army in Uzbekistan. When the family arrived in England in
1947 no adult male from either side of Maria's family had survived
the war.
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