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Post by jamest on Mar 5, 2013 8:31:32 GMT -7
I would like to find out if Gen W. Sikorski spent any time at Baldwin Walace University in thr U.S..According to family history he is a relative.He was in the states in the 1920's. I have college books with the name W.Sikorski in them.It was hard getting my father to talk about him.My father would have been 7 or 8 at the time.All he would say was that we were related to Prime Minister of Poland.Any info would be appreciated.Thanks in advance.
Jim Sikorski
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Post by Jaga on Mar 5, 2013 10:59:12 GMT -7
Jamest, welcome to the forum. We had some historians here in the forum. I cannot tell you more about gen Sikorski that what you know. Gen Sikorski was well known and respected in Poland. He was the most known for his work in the exile during WW II and for his unexpected death. There are some strange rumors that somehow his death was caused by other reasons than accident.
How are you related to gen. Sikorski?
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Post by pieter on Mar 5, 2013 15:52:30 GMT -7
Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski, 1942, London.Władysław Sikorski, in full Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (born May 20, 1881, Tuszów Narodowy, Pol., Austria-Hungary—died July 4, 1943, Gibraltar), Polish soldier and statesman who led Poland’s government in exile during World War II. Born and educated in Austrian Poland, Sikorski served in the Austrian Army. In 1908 he founded a secret Polish military organization, in which Józef Piłsudski was also prominent. During World War I, Sikorski was war commissioner of the Polish Legion, which served with the Austrian Army against Russia. He later distinguished himself in the Polish–Soviet War ( 1920–21), and in 1921 he was named chief of the Polish general staff. In 1922–23 Sikorski served briefly as prime minister of Poland. In 1924–25, as minister of military affairs, he guided the modernization of the army. Sikorski remained neutral during Piłsudski’s 1926 take-over of the government; but he joined the anti-Piłsudski opposition in 1928, after being dismissed from his command. When the Germans overran Poland in 1939, Sikorski became prime minister of the government in exile, establishing good relations with Allied leaders. But in the later course of World War II the Soviet dictator Stalin broke off Soviet–Polish diplomatic contact in April 1943, using as pretext Sikorski’s request that the International Red Cross investigate the murder at Katyn of thousands of Polish officers previously in Russian hands. Sikorski was killed in an air crash at Gibraltar the following July; many have speculated that his death was caused by foul play.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Sikorskipl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Sikorski
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Post by jamest on Mar 5, 2013 17:00:29 GMT -7
I'm not sure I am My deceased fater said that he thought that the Gen. was his cousin.
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