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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #36 on: Saturday 11 April 15 19:35 BST (UK) »
Hello again,
your grandfather's parents names were Marian Drozdowski and Maria Drozdowska (maiden name Filiczkowska). After the second world war they didn't come back to Poland from Germany they went to America instead and they were living in Chicago. They travelled there with their youngest daughter Maria and her husband Henryk Kanabus. They had four kids together, the oldest one was named Theresa, the second one was Krystyna, than Barbara and the youngest was a boy named Henry.  The pictures you posted is of this family back when they were children with thier grandparents. Last year I started looking for thier family and I found Krystyna.  Krystyna currently lives in Tuscany Arizona and has three daughters. Theresa passed away in 2002 and Barbara passed away in 2008.  After the war Helena and her husband Franciszek Wos with their kids Zygmunt, Kazimiera and Danuta went back to Poland.  They were living in the city of Wroclaw. They had two more kids there Irena and Anthony.  Zygmunt is my father.  They all still live in Wroclaw.  Antonina, your grandfather's sister, went back to Poland with her husband Burzynski and thier two daughters Krystyna and Danuta.  They lived in the city of Koszalin.  I don't know much about them because I never met them.  The oldest Kazimierz Drozdowski and his wife Zofia they also lived in Poland but I don't have much information about them either.  All I know is that they had a kid name Marian who was born in 1940.  Before the war the family was living in Malynsk wolyn, Poland.  During the second war most of the family was shipped off to Siberia by Russians. The rest of the family (which is your grandfathers parents) and thier kids in 1943 escaped to Germany to escape the genocide of the Ukrainians. If you want to know more about the history of the land you have to look for "Wolyn naszych przodkow".  I would love to have more pictures of your family if you could send some more I would greatly appreciate it.  I look forward to hearing from you and I hope I was able to answer some of the questions you may have been searching for about your ancestors.  Please let me know if there is anything else that you would like to know and I will gladly try to help. 

Kasia

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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #37 on: Sunday 12 April 15 11:49 BST (UK) »
Thanks Kasia, i really never expected to ever find out anymore details about the family, and really enjoyed reading about all the information you provided.

I will drop you a private message with my email address and we can sort out photos etc and any questions you might have ;)

Also just want to say thanks to everyone on rootchat for all the help ;)
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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #38 on: Tuesday 18 April 17 19:49 BST (UK) »
Hi, I am also researching a (different) Wladyslaw Drozdowski. Born Lwow/Lviv in Poland, in 1906. he also was thought to be in the Anders Army and may have fought at Monet Casino. He ended up in Nottingham, and married an with his wife Cecylia Fiala and his children Gregory and Barbara they lived in Nottingham having come via Kenya after been removed from Poland.

is there any way of finding any more information about either Wladyslaw or Cecylia?

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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #39 on: Friday 28 July 17 22:19 BST (UK) »
Hi
My father was shipped off to Siberia from Lwow in 1940 and eventually became part of the Anders army, fighting his way up with fellow Poles through Italy (including, of course, Monte Cassino). He is now 96 and still pretty clear in his mind.
I showed him your post today and he remembers a Wladyslaw Drozdowski extremely well and spoke of him with a good deal of respect.
He would be happy to have a chat with you and to share his memories of the Wladislaw he knew.
Richard L


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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #40 on: Saturday 29 July 17 03:36 BST (UK) »
Hi, where is your father based?
I am away for a week or so but after?

Are you able to confirm the information about Wladyslav's wife's name and anything about how he came to be separated from his wife before the met back up in the UK?

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Re: My Grandparents (Drozdowski) Poland - can anyone read Polish?
« Reply #41 on: Saturday 29 July 17 07:16 BST (UK) »
We live in north London.
I have no idea what dad knows. He said that he lost contact with Wladislaw soon after the war.
He married my mum (also shipped out of Lwow but to Kazakhstan by the Soviets) in Scotland after the war in 1946 and they pretty quickly ended up in London where my dad studied architecture.
I remember that there were a number of Poles in Nottingham after the war and I had an aunt we used to visit there in the 1950s.