Thankee sir
I see a lot of the old crowd is still around - even MoS
My fathers family were deported from east Poland to Siberia in WW2 ,
They came from a village called Jankowce north of Tarnopol ,
My Greatgrand parents came from Zabojki , west of Tarnopol .
http://http://www.kresy.co.uk/tarnopol_area.html.
On the journey to Siberia , My Grandmother and dad’s baby sister
along with other relatives perished. My Grandfather made his way with dad and my uncle to Iran , where they were later sent here to New Zealand.
My Grandfather had joined the Polish 2nd corp and was later killed at San Biagio , Italy.
I’ve been trying to find photo’s of , or around Jankowce and Zabojki which are now part of Ukraine.
All my searching keep coming to deadends , just wondering if anybody out there can help in any way.
cheers
Steve
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Welcome aboard…and good luck!
Embarrassing though it is to be beaten to the punch by a Yank: Welcome, again. From across the Tasman. 
Hello Wiewiorka!
Welcome! Have you found the location of those vilages on a modern map? It is possible that those villages either do not exist anymore or chnagedthe names.
modern maps of Ternopol oblast: http://ukrindustrial.com/img/regions/pic/5_9_radm_542822899.gif
modern maps of Lviv oblast: http://ukrindustrial.com/img/regions/pic/2_9_radm_206272667.gif
Hi all
thanks for the welcome,
I have found a couple of modern maps with the villages on them, one has the Polish name and Ukrainian.
The other has the village names spelt how they are pronounced.
I still have’nt been able to find any information about them though.
What I really would like , is to track down photo’s of the Villages and the local landscape.
I have been looking at photo’s of Polish and Ukrainian farmland to get an idea of the countryside , but having photo’s of the actual village’s
would be better.
The results of first search:
http://zabojki.republika.pl/
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Plany/Zabojki_polozenie.JPG
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Plany/Tarnopol.jpg
Hope to add some more later. Maybe you should contact the webmaster of that page.
Pozdrawiam,
Kovalski
Hi everyone . I am a reasonably new member. I don’t get a chance to get on very often as my fiance hogs the computer.
I live in Queensland, Australia and enjoy shooting ex mil rifles at the local range in comps and as a hunter rifles.
I grew up in a military family and have always appreciated the finer details when it comes to modern history. My current fascination is with the Soviet - Finnish Winter War.
I have read quite a few books on the issue but can’t find much from the Soviet perspective. Would anyone have any ideas or sources they could recommend?
I look forward to chatting, sharing my opinions and hopefully learning from you all.
Cheers
Zabojki (Забойки - russian),
coordinates squares X=88, Y=90 : http://maps.vlasenko.net/map1k/m-35-087.jpg
and this link: http://maps.vlasenko.net/?y=49.53014&x=25.45378
Jankowce. I believe it is called in russian Иванковцы (Ivankovci), UKR lang: ІВАНКІВЦІ (Зборівський район),
coordinate square X=88, Y=08 : http://maps.vlasenko.net/map1k/m-35-075.jpg
and this link: http://maps.vlasenko.net/?x=25.472&y=49.696&search=
Wiewiorka, you are in luck man!
Here is the church “Rozhdestva Presviatoi Bogorodici” in Jankowce, 1794 (top left corner): http://ua.vlasenko.net/_pgs/pgs-scan/pgs4-359.jpg
Egorka and Kovalski ,
thats awesome , it’s been so frustrating not being
able to find any real infomation,
you guys are great, thanks!
Pictures from the village of Zabojki taken in 2003 by Mr Zbigniew Krol
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Zabojki_strona_2.html
Pictures from the village of Zabojki taken in 2003 by Mr Zbigniew Krol
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Zabojki_strona_2.html
The plan of the village (also from the page of Mr Zbigniew Krol)
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Plany/plan_Zabojek.jpg
The memoirs of Mr Bolesław Krol:
http://zabojki.republika.pl/Magazynek_tekstow/Zeszyt1_Strony_Rodzinne_Boleslaw_Krol.DOC
you are welcome!
Hi all!
I am also new around here, my name is Romulus, and i am from Romania; i am interested mostly in romanian army units especially 10th Infantry Division and also german army from ww2.
Hope to have a good time here…
You sure will, Welcome.
Welcome Romulus and I hope that you already received my reply.
Bine ai venit!
Hmmm… didn’t see this until now
Anyways Hi everyone I’m really glad I found this forum, I am a month from 17 and as you can imagine there aren’t that many people in real life I can have an in-depth conversation with about World War 2.
My main interests include:
Battle of Normandy(after the landings)
Battle of Hurtgen Forest
Battle of the Bulge
Operation Market Garden + Liberation of Holland
U-Boats
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Leyte Gulf
German invasion of Holland and Belgium
German military