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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: hunkyhywel on Saturday 01 June 13 23:11 BST (UK)
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This is a tough one and may need relocating to a more appropriate board.
I'm looking for any reference to a Buguslaw Skraburski.
He was born between 1939 and 1949.
He died when he was approximately two years old in Siberia.
His father, Jozef was born in Germany and his mother, Adela, was born in Poland.
His elder brother was born in Poland in 1939.
I believe that the family were moved from Poland to Siberia as some sort of relocation due to WWII.
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Your first port of call should be the www.kresy-siberia.org website which also has a helpful Yahoo group. A few things spring to mind..."Buguslaw" is probably "Boguslaw" (pronounced "Bog-oo-swav") and the family would have been deported to Siberia by the Red Army after the Russians invaded the eastern part of Poland, known as "Kresy" (Germany taking the wsetern part).
The family would therefore have been living in the east of Poland. Skarburski sounds like an ethnically Polish name and so the father, although born in "Germany", would have been an ethnic Pole perhaps from a part of Poland that became Germany or a part of Germany that is now Poland. Complicated!
The Siberia experience for so many Poles is an epic story with much material available. If you want further help, let me know your email address.