Feniks
18 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]
Are you sure this was the case? I've looked at one of your other archived threads and this is what was stated:
"when I cross referenced the last point of location this unit was stationed at, Czortkow, Poland Sept. 17, 1939, it seems the Russians were in that area as well. This, also ties in with an unconfirmed story that an aunt told me that he may have been a prisoner and wanted to go with the officers of the unit but was prevented from doing so. One thing that may have set him apart and maybe be freed later was his ability to speak Russian, German, and Polish. The other issue is that I have not been able to find information on the web about either unit. Even if they had been assimilated or absorbed by another military unit in Poland there should have been something listed about the Signal Corps that was part of the Polish Armed Forces."
https://polishforums.com/archives/2010-2019/genealogy/military-temporarily-closed-way-69807/
He may well have been stationed there but you don't actually know if the unit, 1st Signals Regiment, was captured there or not. I would concentrate my efforts on finding out if this was the case. Without factual evidence you're making presumptions no matter how likely those are. If it was, maybe it's possible that he evaded capture by the Russians because it seems very unlikely that he ended up in Lublin after about 6 months of captivity rather than at a Soviet camp somewhere.
From what I was told and what little I can find on the internet, they were captured by the Russians.
Are you sure this was the case? I've looked at one of your other archived threads and this is what was stated:
"when I cross referenced the last point of location this unit was stationed at, Czortkow, Poland Sept. 17, 1939, it seems the Russians were in that area as well. This, also ties in with an unconfirmed story that an aunt told me that he may have been a prisoner and wanted to go with the officers of the unit but was prevented from doing so. One thing that may have set him apart and maybe be freed later was his ability to speak Russian, German, and Polish. The other issue is that I have not been able to find information on the web about either unit. Even if they had been assimilated or absorbed by another military unit in Poland there should have been something listed about the Signal Corps that was part of the Polish Armed Forces."
https://polishforums.com/archives/2010-2019/genealogy/military-temporarily-closed-way-69807/
He may well have been stationed there but you don't actually know if the unit, 1st Signals Regiment, was captured there or not. I would concentrate my efforts on finding out if this was the case. Without factual evidence you're making presumptions no matter how likely those are. If it was, maybe it's possible that he evaded capture by the Russians because it seems very unlikely that he ended up in Lublin after about 6 months of captivity rather than at a Soviet camp somewhere.