christopher19
31 Aug 2010
Genealogy / Monte Cassino + Russian labour camp [23]
Hi Tessa!it is quite impossible to find out what camps your grandafather was.No records were kept in the 2ndPolish Corps in this matter.If your grandfather left Soviet Union inAugust 42 it was definitely soviet ship leaving port KRASNOVODSK on Caspian Sea and arriving to Iranian port Pahlevi.One such ship"Ivan Kaganowitch" left Krasnovods on about August14-16 or about with soldziers and thei nfamilies-if there were any.I was on that ship.We stayed in Pahlevi for some 10-15 days.there were hundredsand hundreds people,ido know how many-men ,wymen and children.From Pahlevi British trucks took us to IRAQ.There are Polish army archives in england and you should contact them,because they should have names of all members of thePolish FOrces.make sure you spell your gradfathers name properly.good luck! Christopher.
Hi Tessa!it is quite impossible to find out what camps your grandafather was.No records were kept in the 2ndPolish Corps in this matter.If your grandfather left Soviet Union inAugust 42 it was definitely soviet ship leaving port KRASNOVODSK on Caspian Sea and arriving to Iranian port Pahlevi.One such ship"Ivan Kaganowitch" left Krasnovods on about August14-16 or about with soldziers and thei nfamilies-if there were any.I was on that ship.We stayed in Pahlevi for some 10-15 days.there were hundredsand hundreds people,ido know how many-men ,wymen and children.From Pahlevi British trucks took us to IRAQ.There are Polish army archives in england and you should contact them,because they should have names of all members of thePolish FOrces.make sure you spell your gradfathers name properly.good luck! Christopher.