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World War Two / Re: ukrainian pow search w. stefaniuk
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 20:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. I have been considering him being in the waffen...guess it would tie in with the stay in italy. On one photo after a couple of peoples names, my mum pointed out that it looks like the ss symbol has been written...then again it could just be something that looks similar in russian...a lot of guesswork

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World War Two / Re: ukrainian pow search w. stefaniuk
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for all of your suggestions Milly. That does sound as though it could have happened to him. The naturalization links you found (his is the first one) - i had never thought of looking at the London Gazette.

As much as i'm enjoying researching and finding out things i never knew, it's frustrating not coming up with anything concrete!
I wonder whether it may be worth having a researcher look at the records at Kew. Otherwise I shall just have to be patient and see if anything comes back from enquiries!
The point you make about fear of reprisals - that's why we were curious when the first enquiry at geneva came back with nothing...i wondered if he may have altered his name at some point...of course he never told anyone if he did this and i don't want to jump to any conclusions.
In the meantime i'll try and get someone to navigate the russian site for me - thank you again!

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World War Two / Re: ukrainian pow search w. stefaniuk
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 13:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hello and thank you for your reply.
My grandad was known as Basil to close family and friends. My mum thinks that is the English version...
I'm trying to not complicate things too much at the moment by bringing the other name(Vasilij) into the equation because it may have simply been a friend of his.

We have a couple of documents with Wasyl Stefaniuk stated as his name, so i'm hoping the info...or some record of him will surface soon! He never spoke about his time before coming to England, which I understand, but makes it difficult to try and piece everything together now.

What i'm really after is trying to work out his whereabouts...after (a lot) of reading i've found out about the Italian Rimini, Bellaria camps and the Ukrainian men that came here, so that's a strong possibility in my mind.
Also, my mum's friend who's been translating for us, wondered whether he may have been in red army before being captured by the Germans. Even though my grandad kept to the story that he was given no choice but to join the Germans when they came to his village, so i really am unsure.
 Again, if anyone could help or suggest anything from looking at the photograph, i'd really appreciate.

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World War Two / ukrainian pow search w. stefaniuk
« on: Tuesday 03 January 12 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
i'm trying to find as much information as i can on my grandad but don't seem to be getting anywhere! we've help from the redcross &had an enquiry sent out but came back that they've no record of my grandfather, another has since been sent.
(they wonder if he had been known by a different name - vasilij stefanovich is also on my photos, which is puzzling to me, but may be nothing)

anyway, his name was wasyl stefaniuk born 1927 - he was born in nadwirna & became a pow. on one photo he has written "italy p.o.w" with date 1946 on the back and mentioned being there to my mother.
i was wondering if anyone could identify the uniform in my photo? if it loads, he is on the right. someone told me it looks like german uniform.

when he arrived in england, he ended up at wellingore camp, near lincoln. does anyone have any knowledge of the men who came to be at wellingore? i have many photos which also mention bodenbach and rosendorf. so wonder if he was there at somepoint, captured and taken to italy...a lot of it is guesswork at the moment because i don't know where else to access this info. i don't have any numbers or concrete info on his whereabouts...just what he told us, which was very little.

if anyone could offer suggestion, that would be great

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