Genealogy / Questions regarding my Polish father's call up into the Soviet Army in 1941 [4]


Looker,

Excellent, thank you very much. I started by searching for something starting with 627th and tried all sorts of combinations of military units and finally one came back with lots of hits - the 627th Rifle Regiment. I stopped after that assuming that the numbers would not be duplicated otherwise it could cause confusion.

Thanks for the reference to 162nd Infantry Division. It agrees with what I found as well and ties down some dates and localities that I can add to my list.

I see in da_slacker.tripod.com/red_army.htm there is listed a 627th Mountain-Rifle Division, and lists equipment around 1944. Not sure of the source of the list or if it is relevant to 1941 as the organisation of the Soviet army changed a lot during the war.

I recall my father mentioning that he was a machine gunner and assigned to a Commissar, who saved his life on several occasions. On one occasion some Poles had deserted to the Germans, so the remaining Poles were decimated as punishment. The commander told all Poles to step forward and then shot every tenth one on the spot. The Commissar held my father back by his uniform so he didn't step forward.

I know there were other incidents and would like to find how to research the Soviet records - if anyone can help please get back!

Looker,

I have my father's original little brown book for the courses he attended at the Polytechnika Lwowska.
I compared the names to those on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Lviv_professors, (+) means murdered.

1938/39 Professors were:
Lomnicki (+)
Plamitzer
Klemensiewicz
Mozer
Geisler
Dreher
Burzynski
Aulich

1939/40 Professors were:
Lomnicki (+)
Sucharda
Burzynski
Wlodek
Mozer
Geisler
Hauswald
Fuchs
Vetulani (+)