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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Oct 8, 2023 10:19:34 GMT -7
The Vicious Struggle To Capture Monte Cassino | Both Sides of the Line | War Stories
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Post by pieter on Oct 8, 2023 14:18:58 GMT -7
John,
My Polish American uncle from Milwaukee, Kwasieborki, fought there as one of the Polish soldiers in Monte Cassino. His brother fought near Arnhem in Driel and Oosterbeek during Market Garden. Both broters were captured by the Soviet NKVD (the predecessor of the KGB) during the Second World War after the 1939 war in Poland against the German/Oostrian Nazi's and the Soviet Red Army, they were captured in the East, suffered in NKVD prisons, Ice cells, and then were freed, and went with the Anders Army for a very long journey through the SovietUnion, Iran, British Palestine, and Egypt to England, where they joined the Polish Army in Great Britain. Both brothers were in the same Anders Army, but didn't know that the other was alive and survived the Soviet Stalinist terror. One went to Italy to fight in Monte Cassino and the other fought in the Netherlands during Market Garden. The Monte Casino uncle is the father of my Polish American cousins Eva and Mary. Their mother escaped Poland just before the war and was in Milwaukee. Via her they found out that the other brother was alive and so the united and after the war they migrated to the USA and lived and worked in Milwaukee. The Monte Casino uncle married the older sister of my mother who lived and worked in Warsaw during the fifties. My mothers sister migrated to the USA as well. My cousins parents spoke Polish inside their home and American English outside. Due to their upbringing by Polish parents my cousins had and have a Polish Roman Catholic culture, are part of the Polish American community, and they can speak, write and read Polish.
Pieter
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