February 11th 1939, a deep frost had set firmly across the Eastern European province of Galicia, it was reportedly -30c and the deportation of Poles from the boundaries lands had begun. Gun shots were heard across Lwów and Komarno and panic was already setting in. The Ukriainian armed soldiers arrived early hours of the morning …
Images from Lwów Voivodeship, Polska / Galicia. The images below include, Komarno and the city of Lwów. Pre – 1936 | Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939) Images dating between 1900 – 1918 | belong to the Galician / Habsburg Empire period which began in 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the …
Below is a copy of the Poland Coat of arms / herb polski Most heraldry sites attribute this coat of arms to the surname Kuta. Possibly because an actual Coat of Arms does not exist for the Kuta family name. Although the origins of the name Kuta suggests that it is a Galician word, shortened …
My grandfather’s hands were placed into a machine and the Nazi’s broke them. For many years I have been piecing together the life of my grandfather Jan Kuta, his story is a complicated one and still not complete even though I have written about his life in part and my research of him a few …