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August 01
Mordy n/Siedlce, Trzebieszów, Radzyń Podlaski, Kozłówka n/Lubartów
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Mordy is a town and a railway station, on the rail line Siedlce - Hajnowka.
Uncle Tadeusz (060) - Adam's grandfather - was here the Station Master for several years. click on the picture to enlarge
| Barbara, Kitri and Wanda in front of the old railroad station building. It has been put recently out of service (new station is under construction)? |  |
| Although a few trains are still passing here daily, weeds
are starting to overgrow the tracks and the platforms.
The importance of this line decreased since the war, due to changes which affected the eastern borders of Poland.
From left - Adam, Kitri, Carmen, Paweł Stefaniuk (the webmaster and our guide in these "territories") and Wanda. |
Trzebieszów
http://www.wajszczuk.v.pl/gniazda/english/trzebieszow.htm
Trzebieszow is the main, known to date, "Family Nest" of the Podlasie branch of the Wajszczuk Family. The oldest records documenting the presence of Wajszczuks there, as early as the beginning of the XVIII century, were found in Trzebieszow. We still do not know, though, when did they come here and from where? From Trzebieszow, they migrated to the neighbouring settlements.
(see - "the Tree": http://www.wajszczuk.v.pl/english/drzewo.htm).
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Barbara Miszta (156), (nee Wajszczuk) welcomes us in the door of an old Wajszczuk family residence. Barbara is a granddaughter of Franciszek (103), who was Piotr's (from Siedlce) brother.
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| In front of the house (from left) - Adam, Katarzyna Miszta (159), Kitri (sitting), Karolina Miszta (160),
Wanda and Barbara. |
Radzyń Podlaski
The uncle - Fr. Karol Wajszczuk was a vicar in the Parish here prior to transferring to Drelów.
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In front of the palace of the old noble Potocki family. | 
Outside the Parish Church in Radzyn. | 
The church interior. | 
Plaque outside the church
commemorating the heroes
of anti-Soviet resistance.
Radzyn and environs were strong centers of resistance,
at first against the Germans during WW-II and then
against the new Soviet occupants and Soviet-imposed
communist apparatus of oppression. |
| On our way to Lublin we stopped to see the palace of the old polish noble family of Zamoyski. The palace survived the war (as well as the communist mismanagement - high communist officials entertained here), has splendid interiors and an outstanding portrait picture gallery.
A museum of the relics ("mementos") of communism is located in one of the side wings and some imposing statues of the "prophets" od communism are located (hidden?) in the park behind the palace.
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Wanda and Barbara
in front of the palace.
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One of the palace interiors.
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Prepared by: Waldemar J. Wajszczuk & Paweł Stefaniuk
2001 |
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