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Originally Posted by High Wood
I was aware that large numbers of Polish troops including officers served with the British forces during WW2. I even have the paperwork of some of them in my collection. What threw me was the reference to "Polish boys", which seems to indicate that they were not trained soldiers.
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I hadn't seen Jerry's article when I posted , the details in it shine a different light on the subject.
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Originally Posted by High Wood
I am wondering if many of them were Jewish which might explain why they were making for Palestine.
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The transcript comes from a Kresy Siberia Virtual Museum page about
Henryk Frank Kustra.
His remarkable story (in his own words) is available on YouTube , he ended up in Australia in 1948 and unfortunately died in a car crash when he was 91.
The Henryk Frank Kustra Story
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