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KRUPINSKI Drawings of Kresy and Siberia
Courtesy of Irena Kus
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Military maneuvers in Krupiec in 1935
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Military maneuvers in Staryki in 1937
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Lancers stop for tea at our home in Staryki
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Harvest at Franek's estate in Staryki
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Scouting camp in the woods near Brody
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Religious observance in May on the military settlement
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Departure of the rapid train to Dubno
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Heading to midnight mass in Radzillow
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German planes attack the rail line
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Shooting at German planes
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Lancers stop at a military settler's, 1939
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17 Sept. 1939, Russian soldiers invade the Eastern Borderlamds
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10 Feb 1940, deportation of military settler families
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Train full of military settles snowbound on the way to Siberia
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Building an asphalt road from Dubno to Radzillow, Sept 1939
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A white eagle representing freedom
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Escaping a bear in Siberia
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Wolves approach the barracks in Siberia
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Children gather mushrooms and berries in Siberia
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An accident while felling a tree
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Germans invade Wolyn in June 1941
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Church in Ptycza burns down, 1941
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Polish homes burned down by Ukrainians
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Funeral of the School Headmaster, his wife and his daughters
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The Germans mine the tracks and blow up the Dubno train station
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Cold winter night in Dubna, 1944
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Battle for Kolobrzeg
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Russian NKWD searches the woods around Stanislawka, winter 1945
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Polish soldiers lead a group of Ukrainian POWs
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Polish soldiers being transported to the Front, June 1944
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Last Christmas Eve at home in Werbie, 1944
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Krupinski Family: Marian, Jozef & wife Ludmila, and grandmother Helena
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Feliks Krupinski partook in the 1920 war with the Russians and was awarded the Virtuti Militari medal.
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The Author of the drawings with his wife Danuta, and son Krzysztof
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