Stefania Karas-Podsiadła was born in Chorostkow in 1924. The family had settled in a colony at Miłow with other pioneering families originally from Lubatowa, near Krosno, until their enforced deportation from Kresy in February 1940.

 

A teenaged Stefania and her siblings endured being orphaned in an extraordinary one-way journey from their Kresy homeland; via Siberia, an exodus across the Urals and Eurasia, to sanctuary across the Caspian Sea in Persia (Iran), rehabilitation in a Polish refugee Camp in India, and finally to more settled lives in several countries across the British Commonwealth. In India Stefania had worked as a secretary in the Polish Consulate.

 

Stefania, lived happily in Brighton, England for over sixty years. In 1948 she married Stanisław Podsiadły (originally from Sandomierz), whom she had met in Browning’s Resettlement Camp in West Sussex, UK. They raised a family of four boys, and led peaceful, productive and contented lives.

 

Stanisław died in 1988 and Stefania passed away in 2010, in Brighton, England, at the age of 86 years.

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Written by her son: Marek Podsiadły.

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Copyright: Podsiadły family

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