Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

Thanks, TheOther. Much appreciated. But LDS has been part of my year-long odyssey, and no matching Jadachs/years turn up.
(Nor via ancestry or my heritage).

No maple syrup for you. Yet. :)

You're good, TheOther. I never saw that before, and there's some names in your link that are scrawled on old photos. That's Dad, all right. I'm grateful.

But I knew he'd been part of some small youthful resistance gangs before being dispatched to Northern Finland, so while this confirms he was Aleksander Marian Jadach during the war, it doesn't help me trace anything further back.

It'll have to be from somebody well versed in Polish. With a command of Norwegian, I was happily able to trace my Norwegian roots way back by reading scanned church books and census jottings dating back to 1785. My Polish, though, is non-existent.

(For example, I find a Stefan Jadach listed in some military exercise - and with the year 1887 in brackets - but the Google translation of his status shows him as 'RUSHING', which makes no sense, unless that was a cavalry exercise. Nor do I know near enough Polish to know what year or activity or anything else this reference was.)

I thank you, Sir. A tablespoon of maple syrup for certain so far.

Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

I agree completely about Dad's Finland saga, TheOther. I can find no historical suggestion that Todt had any dealings up there, neither before nor after Speer assumed their command. And Finland and Germany were on helpful terms until - what - late 1944?

So how does an 18 or 19-year old lad from Warszawa (ex-member of a teenage resistance gang in Poland) end up in Norway at the end of the war?

(The Norwegians are strict about information laws; without affidavits, I must wait a few more years before accessing private naturalization records for that time.)
I shall try your latest suggestion. You are most kind.
- Robert

Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

Apologies, Ironside.
I am right now reading for the twelfth time a book my dad self-published about his war experiences. (I have 1,200 copies here. They didn't sell well. If you PM me your address, I will happily send you a copy. And to anybody else.) All of the escapades he describes are such fairly tame exercises as slashing tires, pouring sugar into gas tanks, and stealing a revolver from a German. But he would only have been 16 or 17 at the time, and likely sent on lesser errands of harassment. I certainly didn't mean to denigrate the Home Front efforts in any way. I toast their courage regularly.

But I can only work with what I have in trying to find out who and what my confounding daddy was.
So how does a young ex-Gray Ranks operative end up in bleeding Norway in 1945?

With respect,
- Robert

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...and thank you, Paulina, but it cannot be the Stefan my father refers to as his dad. I have two old photos of a uniformed man noted as my Grand-dad; and they would have to be dated from circa 1930 because my father Aleksander is about four years old with a blonde, page-boy haircut.

I'm so confused.
I shall look into the sites you so kindly mentioned.

Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

Thanks, donoslask. You want a free book? I'd be proud to send it along.
And I'd be even more proud of my roots if I really, really knew them you see?
I brought my dad to Warszawa in 1977, and spent a fascinating week. I love the Polish people, and feel great pangs for the hardships with which history has smacked them.

I only wish my late dad had been more forthcoming (and honest, honestly) about where I come from.
Thanks again.

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Super, dolnoslask. Please tell me more, if you can. (The trials of our parents fascinate and inspire the spoiled generation of me.) When was your dad born ,then? In Siberia, I guess? And he ends up as a young man in the Polish army? In Italy?

I want more, dolno...Please....
And thanks to Ironside's "Thing is you can't do that on the internet." There's the hiccup, you see. I'm a single parent to an 11 and a 15 year-old. I simply cannot hop over to Poland for research, and my seventeen words of Polish are anyway only good enough to mildly flirt and to order a beer. So what good would that eventually do? I was able to track my Norwegian roots way, way back with scanned (and free) scribblings from church records, but cannot do that for my Polish dad.

Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

Dobra notz, dolno. (I know, I know....my first wife was Czech. It'll have to do.)
Thank you.

Thanks a mite to some of your links and greatly to your exhortations, I have made some small progress. But I've hit a wall, and need some Polish expertise to interpret whatever you can spot from this old photo of a photo. In my dad's hand-writing on the back: "From left: Roman Brochwicz, my half brother, cousin Zajac who became a med. doctor and died in Afrika from an incurable disease, his dad Dobrochna Zajze, my dad and Madame Zajze FROM LEFT FRONT My mom and I" So, any ideas about date, clothing, class, names, my grand-dad's uniform......anything?

(Because I can find none of those names anywhere.)

....edit post-script....Sorry; the photo was disallowed because of size. Please disregard.....

OK...folks; how about this?
After eight more hours of cyber-sleuthing I found this marker, which Google is unable to translate for me. (The photograph makes it difficult to properly read every single letter)

Can anyone make any sense of this, or something like it:
'ANNIE JADACH
KICRA KRYSWALA PODOZAS OKUPACJI ZYDOWSKIE DZIECI NA WIEOZNA RAMIEC URATOWNE'

I thank you for any possible thoughts on what this might signify/mean. (She would have died in Warszawa in about 1958).

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Thank you, Chemikiem and Ironside. I'm beginning to be very proud of my unknown grandparents.
Anna Jadach's husband, Stefan, was arrested Aug 19, 1943 by the Gestapo. He was sent to Auschwitz on October 5.
Fascinating trail, and I'm very grateful for the assistance here.
Now I shall find their parents somehow.

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I'll try. Thanks. Stefan Jadach, circa 1930. There are no ideas out there about what my Grand-dad's uniform tells us about his rank, posting, division he might have been with in 1930?

Anything, folks....

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Genealogy / Return of the Polish Jadah / Jadach surname [28]

Thanks, Ironside.
I'm stumped. I will wait for my DNA test results to see if I can get any further leads to where Stefan Jadach came from.

Still here. You won't get rid of me that easily.
While awaiting DNA results to maybe, maybe, maybe give me a thread to follow, I'm still thrashing about with the little I do have.

Thanks to the geneteka site that Paulina so kindly furnished, I have found a 1921 marriage in Bzowo between my grandfather Stefan Jadach and grandmother Anna Stanislawska. I'll assume my dad's birth in 1926 was an issue of this, but I cannot find any such reference.

Meanwhile, my late dad had written to me that he had a half-brother (by mother Anna) born in 1918 and that in early 1939 "My parents were summoned to the Academy. Roman's plane had crashed.....Roman and one of his colleagues were dead. The funeral was conducted with full military honours.........In 1993 in Warszawa, I visited the cemetery....the marble stone still reads : Hr. ROMAN BROCHWICZ, Polish pilot. Died in 1939."

I've tried Billiongraves and the geneteka site, and can find no mention of this doomed young man either.
I'm hoping that I may pinpoint mysterious Anna a bit better through her son Roman.
Any thoughts out there?
Thank you again.