My stepfather, Franciszek Jan Budzinski was born in Lwow in 1910 and died in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1957. His father was Piots Budzinski, Town Clerk to Lwow and mother Katarzyna Budzinska, nee Liparska. They lived on Ul Stopochowska 8, Lwow.
Neither FJ or his brother Mieczysław, ever went back to Poland or had any contact with anyone there during WW2. Mieczyslaw served with the 6th Air Regiment as a pilot in 1937-39 and joined the RAF in England in 1941. He emigrated to the USA in 1946-48 period. Unfortunately, many of my stepfather’s belongings, personal papers were stolen when my mother emigrated to Australia in 1958. I have been able to get my stepfather’s Polish Army records from the British Ministry of Defence. He served as a Corporal Radio Technician from 1940 to 1944 and was given a field commission to 2nd Lieutenant in 1944. His background was that he worked as a radio technician for Radio Lwow. He was imprisoned first by the German Army then transferred to the Russians who put him on a prison train to Russia. He escaped from that train at the Russian-Polish border and somehow, via Romania, made his way to France and the Free Polish Brigade then to England via Toulouse-Oran-Casablanca-Gibraltar then England. He managed the radio station Radio WAWER which broadcast messages to the Polish Underground Army with some personal messages from Polish Servicemen to their families. There was a Polish audio recording van in his unit which had been driven from Warsaw to England!
He could not return to Poland as he undoubtedly would have been shot by the Russians. Thousands of Polish servicemen did not return as the first batch of Polish servicemen who returned in 1945 were arrested and charged with treason by the Russians and their Polish Communist collaborators.
His parents, Piotr and Katarzyna Budzinski were shot as spies by the Germans. Piotr was the Town Clerk of Lwow in 1939, the most senior civil servant for that city.
Fj had a sister, Maria Budzinska, who lived in Warszawa and last heard from in 1957.
I need help to find any records in Poland related to any of the names given above.
Regards
James
BUDZIŃSKI: root-word budzić (to wake), but probably a topo nick from Budzin, Budzień, Budzina or similar (Waketon, Wakefield, Wakely, etc.).
