andrew jab
10 Mar 2012
Genealogy / Does anyone have any relatives who served with 1st Polish Armoured Division (Gen. Maczek) [311]
Yep,my grandad fought defending warsaw in 39 and escaped back home to slonim(now Belarus) before being deported to siberia and then escaping and joining with Gen Anders fighting at monte cassino.
One of many thousands who came to England and was then treated as an 'alien' by a huge slice of the indigenous population,that was the gratitude afforded to many many polish veterans who fought for everyones freedom.
My grandad kept his dignity,if it were me id have spat something along the lines of,what,did our soldiers die gallantly all over Europe to be treated as outcasts and second class citizens after being distgustingly sold down the river at yalta?
Churchill/Roosevelt = no HONOR!!
stories of his families escape from Poland and how they finally got to England
Yep,my grandad fought defending warsaw in 39 and escaped back home to slonim(now Belarus) before being deported to siberia and then escaping and joining with Gen Anders fighting at monte cassino.
One of many thousands who came to England and was then treated as an 'alien' by a huge slice of the indigenous population,that was the gratitude afforded to many many polish veterans who fought for everyones freedom.
My grandad kept his dignity,if it were me id have spat something along the lines of,what,did our soldiers die gallantly all over Europe to be treated as outcasts and second class citizens after being distgustingly sold down the river at yalta?
Churchill/Roosevelt = no HONOR!!