Deported lemko (ukrainian minority) families information

[Hannia]

Lost Families in Poland

In you are interested in contact information re Akcja Visla/Operation Visla/Operation Vistula, write to Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (The Institute of National Remembrance - The Commission For The Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation). You can submit your inquiry in English via e-mail. Turn around time is up to three months. Response comes by registered mail, so make sure to include your full name and address.

sekretariat.ipn@ipn.gov.pl ***

*** As of today, 3/4/2010, all e-mails are being returned. I would like to think that they are being inundated, and now can only accept snail mail.
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Mailing address:

Institute of National Remembrance
Ul. Towarowa 28
00-839 Warszawa Poland

URL for above:
Institute of National Remembrance

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Greg Gressa is also currently in the proofreading stage re Akcja Visla Deportation Data.
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[bkrevel]

Hi Hannia

I have forwarded this info to my friends, Warchola, with whom I travelled to Ukraine with last June. We travelled to their ancestral village, Rezpedz, (30 km south of Sanok). What beautiful country. Why would anyone leave....????

As you know, my family is from Voyslavitse , by Sokal,,,,,,,,do you think these records would include this area. As I am still trying to locate forced resettlement records for my family who lived there, and were resettled.

Cheers and have a nice day

Bob

[Hannia]

Bob,

Records above are applicable to resettlement of peoples the Poles considered Ukrainian nationals.

Your families from Voyslavitse were probably considered Polish nationals by the Soviets and were resettled in the once occupied German territories. Those records have been available, but you will have to either research the records yourself or find a polish researcher. See following link for Państwowy Urząd Repatriacyjny - State Office of Repatriation.

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[IreneLviv]

Hannia - this area was several times moved between Poland and the USSR - last time in 1951, and experienced at least 3 resettlements during 1944/51.
Complete documents with resettlement lists in 1944/6 ( mainly to the Ternopil and Kherson regions) are held in the Lviv State Regional Archives, and those in 1947 to Germany probably in Poland, but partially in Kyev - Security Service.

[Hannia]

Irene, so the supposed VOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENTS (previous to Wysla Operation) from Poland to SSR Ukraine are recorded in Lviv Oblast Archives? Is that correct ?
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contact information re Akcja Visla/Operation Visla/Operation Vistula, write to Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (The Institute of National Remembrance - The Commission For The Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation).

This is documentation that covers ethnic Ukrainians that were forceably resettled within Poland in 1947 during Wysla Operation. That is what this thread is about.
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Most Germans from Western Ukraine were evacuated in 1937. The EWZ Records are currently in Berln and are available thru LDS. Some are even online.

[IreneLviv]

Yes they have alphabetical lsits, property lists, 'applications'; and lists per trains.
From what I remember they have Chelm, Grubieszow, Rzeszow, Jaroslaw, Lancut, Lezajsk, Przeworsk. Tomaszow, Przemysl, Sanok, Krosno, Tarnobrzeg, Nowy Targ, Lubaczow, Krasnostaw, Jaslo, Lubart, .... etc etc

[Hannia]

Irene,

Thank you for your valuable tip.
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Address for Lviv Oblast (Regional) Archives (not same as Lviv Historical Archives)

Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti (DALO)
State Archive of Lviv Oblast
Address: 79000, Lviv, vul. Pidval'na, 13
Telephone: (38-0322) 72-00-30, 72-07-14
E-mail: dalo@mail.lviv.ua
Director: Viacheslav Ivanovych Kutsynda (tel. 72-00-30)
Deputy Director: Petro Ivanovych Kravchuk