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Europe / Re: SLUPSKI, Kazimierz
« on: Wednesday 06 July 22 09:35 BST (UK) »
The post by fiddlerslass is correct - and was actually the link I was going to direct you to. If you enter his name and birthdate, you'll come across several records pertaining to him - including his records when he was taken to Stalag 318 - complete with picture of an 18 year old Kazimierz. The German record gives his 'rank' as gunner in the 21st Inf Reg. The 21st Infantry Regiment were mountain soldiers originally - they encountered the first Germans in the invasion of Poland. At some point they moved their headquarters to Warsaw and were disbanded by 1939 (from memory). However, the 21st Infantry Regiment became known as the 'Children of Warsaw' and it is my understanding that this covered those under the age of 18 fighting in the Warsaw Uprising and beyond. Kazimierz fits into this timeline. His Stalag 318 record shows his capture in Warsaw as being 5.10.1944 so this definitely fits....and the history of that time shows 6000 soldiers taken to Stalag 318 at that time. There are other records for 2 further Stalags and I believe he would have been part of 'The Long March' in 1945. He has two separate Displaced Persons records - one in 1946 where he wanted to go to Venezuela but was deported (or was meant to be deported) to Poland........which was then amended to him wanting to go to England - and there's no note of deportation. If you have a chance to read about Stalag 318, I think you'll agree his drinking and being drunk was the only way to cope with the horrors he had lived through. And then he shows up again in Germany in 1948 at Butzbach. You'll come across records for his flight to Italy to catch the Dundalk Bay to New Zealand. However - still can't find the family: there is a second Maternal Family name on one of his documents of Bocian. They were Jewish and did have a daughter called Rosalie - but she didn't marry Stanislaw Slupski. Hope you find more. Happy hunting