Poland

Personal Experiences of a POW

At one point, they crossed the Rhine and the Nazi soldiers began trying to collect their tin helmets for...

One Man’s Experience of WWII and as a POW - James T Napier

We then travelled to Dunkirk, reaching the shore but were cut short on our journey back to Britain, due to...

My Grandfather is now in Poland....Asleep

Big party was planned, my grandmother - Nelly, was there with all her banners declaring love for my...

Some Things are Meant to Be

Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...

Stan escapes from Poland and finds love in Scotland

Later, when it was dark, the farmer returned with the bitter news that Stan's brother had been shot as...

Hill 112 and the Death March

My seargeant Offord was hit and i put my whole pack of bandages in the hole in his stomach. I went to...

Water Bottle Radio

We played football on that early summer evening and it began to rain and John Willbourne suggested we...

Escape from a Polish Prisoner of War Camp.

He finally reached Warsaw after tramping over 300 miles in 13 days, including a hairaising scramble under a...

My experiences

I went to Morecambe for training as a Wireless Air Gunner. We crashed on the beach and were actually saved...

Experience of a POW chapter ten

Amongst the fresh influx of prisoners were a number of aircrews from both America and Britain... The...

A Funeral Tribute

My son Chris wrote a tribute to his Grandad that he read at the funeral. I am Chris Scudamore, Grandson of...

Dad's Three Months Forced March 1945: A POW in Poland and Germany

My father also kept a diary during his time as a P.O.W. I found the diary when I was clearing my...

A Polish Hero's War

My Grandad, Zygmunt Piatkiewicz, was born in Novogrodek in 1917, a time when Poland did not exist... It was...

Janina's Story

I remember one day, just after I had come home from school, I was looking out the window and saw the German...

My 21st Birthday in Prison Camp Thorn Fort 13 Stalag 20A

I told them I would be a dead loss to them as I was not able to work and they said 'this...

The Long Walk to Freedom

I had dysentry, semi-recovered from the dysentry, I was dropped out of the march and was picked up and put...

Maria's War

At the out brake of Second World War I was just over five years old, and living in a town called...

Captured for Labour by the Russians

She too was later transported to Russia and on her release, when Russia joined the Allies, she rejoined the...

Fighting for Boulogne

My father, Arthur Colin Guest, was serving in France at the time of the German Blitz Kreig in 1940....

From Capture in Poland to life in Dunstable as a GP

On September 17th 1939, he escaped from the invading Soviet Army after Poland had been invaded by Germany...

Some Things are Meant to Be

Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...

My Uncle Cyril

My Grandad and therefore Uncle Cyril's dad, was informed of the death and that there were some...

Expulsion of German Nationals from Neissbach

- Time has moved on and there is no way back, but the story of the biggest expulsion of world history -...

Cicho-Ciemni - The Men Who Dropped Silently in the Dark

In 1942 I became the commander of the 2nd Platoon, 2nd Company Parachute Training School at Szachrizjabz,...

The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter three.

Janek and Wacek came home the night before and as they were on a “Wanted List” someone possibly...

Captured at Dunkirk

In 1985 my father went back to Maastricht and met the two Dutch nurses who had cared for him and who almost...