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Tomaszewski Family in Tengeru, Africa
While her husband, Felix Tomaszewski, served with the Polish 2nd Corps, Anna (Halko) Tomaszewski from Hajnowka near Bialystok, was sent to Tengeru with her daughters Halina, Wanda, and Irene.
 My grandfather with sons in school uniforms, pre-WW2. |  Mother walking down a street somewhere in Poland [pre-war]. |  Father, Feliks Tomaszewski, pre-WW2 |
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 Mother (Anna (Halko) Tomaszewski) pre-WW2 |  First photo from Tanzania: mother, 3 daughters, Halina, Irena, Wanda |  Tent orphanage in Tehran. Nurse, Halina & Irene. Mother (holding Irene) was usually with Wanda who was seriously ill in the main hospital |
 Irene's mother said, “The road to recovery starts with a good dressmaker.” |  Father, Lieut. Feliks Tomaszewski, somewhere in the Middle East or North Africa. |  Father on motorcycle somewhere in the Middle East or North Africa. |
 Father in Egypt |  Father in England after the war. |  Irene in the garden in Tengeru. |
 Mother and Irene in Arusha. |  Mother working in the school office. |  Mother on leopard skin |
 Mother in Tengeru |  Dzidzia (orphan), Halina , Wanda, and Irene (front right) in Tengeru, in the garden in front of their house |  Anna and Irene in Tengeru |
 Irene ,wearing a pith helmet, at s mission near Tengeru |  Irene in Tengeru age 6 — in a dress her father sent from Italy. |  Irene, sister & friends in Tengeru. |
 Tengeru painting |
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