Photo Gallery 1 – Inside the Camp – 1944 – 1949
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Photo Gallery 2 – Leisure time outside the camp 1944 – 1949
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Photo Gallery 3 – Other countries visited prior to Okehampton
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Polish Naval Academy (Translation of extract from the book)
‘Polish Naval Academy’ written by Professor Dariusz Nawrot „Akademia Marynarki Wojennej - Zarys Dziejów 1922 - 2012.” Pages 49-63, translated from Polish by Jolanta Wilson On 24 August 1939, as the German invasion of Poland became a concrete threat, the Chief of...
Hosting a Navy in Exile: The Case of the Polish Camp (Banner created for Exhibition – October 2020)
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The Polish Naval Camp (Research Summary)
This summary has been prepared by Jolanta Wilson, lead researcher on the Polish Naval Camp in Okehampton, with additional research support from Peter Szypko and Antoni Olszowski. To view larger images, please click on the thumbnails. INTRODUCTION The Polish community...
Virtual talk on the Polish Naval Camp
On 23rd November 2020, we held a virtual talk about the Polish Naval Camp. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqHXMXghno&feature=youtu.be
Stanislaw Teofil Olszowski
This summary has been written by Stanislaw's son and volunteer researcher, Antoni 'Tony' Olszowski. Stanislaw Olszowski (Staszek) was born on 25th April 1920 in Sosnica, a small town between Zabrze and Gliwice in Upper Silesia. At that time, at the end of WW1, Sosnica...
Dymitro (Michael) Sniatkowski
This account of Dymitro (Michael) Sniatkowski's life has been written by his granddaughter, Kathy Sniatkowski. In 1940, when he was 22, my grandfather was taken prisoner by the Russians and moved by train to a work camp near Baku. The train stopped halfway and the men...
Jan Stepek
Jan Stepek was originally deported to the Archangelregion in the Soviet Union in February 1940. When Stalin released the imprisoned Poles, Jan began an epic journey south to Kazakhstan. Jan eventually joined the Polish Army, before transferring to the Polish Navy. Jan...
Tadeusz Zygmunt Sroka
Click Tadeusz's (Tadek's) image below to read about his life: You can watch an extract of an interview with Tadek by Gdansk TV at Swieto Morza in 1993 below: [video width="426" height="240"...
Antoni Zielonka
Antoni Zielonka's military records state that he was born on 12 June 1918 in Sniatycze, a village in south-eastern Poland in the Lublin district close to the Ukrainian border. He was actually born in Moscow but his family moved to Sniatycze soon after his birth. His...