EUGENIUSZ DUDEK

Szczecinek, 10 June 1989

Eugeniusz Dudek
Szczecinek

Editorial Office of the “Zorza” weekly

I am sending the information concerning my father – prisoner of the camp in Ostashkov.

–Stanisław Wacław Dudek, son of Andrzej and Weronika, née Seidel, born on 9 September 1892 in Poznań.


Last place of residence – Pakość, Poznań Voivodeship (now: Bydgoszcz Voivodeship).
Interned in the Ostashkov camp.
Military status: warrant officer, reservist.
Senior Inspector of the State Police.
Commandant of the State Police station in Pakość.
Captured by the Germans most likely right after the Soviet army had entered, near the city of Równe. He was among a large group of policemen, who were fleeing from the western voivodeships on bicycles. We do not know the date or location.
Two postcards came from the camp in Ostashkov. The first one, from 17 December 1939, arrived around 10 January 1940. The second one, from 8 January 1940, arrived in the second half of February 1940. The court kept the first postcard as a document on the basis of which it declared father’s death, determining that it occurred on 31 December 1946, at midnight.
I am his youngest son. My address: Eugeniusz Dudek, […]. There is also my mother (aged 91) and five siblings.

I have one more request – if you know the address of the Archive of the Anders’ Army in England, send it to me, please.

Attachments:

1. A photocopy of the postcard.
2. Father’s last photograph from 1939.

Eugeniusz Dudek

STANISŁAW DUDEK

Πолъша

8 January 1940

Почтовая карточка [a postcard]
Польша [Poland]
С.С.С.Р. гор.Осташков, обл.Калининская, ящик почт. 37. [USSR, the town of Ostashkov,
Kalininskaya Oblast, mailbox no. 37]
Дудек Станислав Андреевич [Stanislav Andreevich Dudek]

Helena Dudek
Pakość, ks. Kurżawskiego Street 12
District of Mogilno
Poznań Voivodeship

Dear all,

I have not received a response to the card I had sent. I am in good health and I hope you are, too. How are you? I wish I were home! I am in Russia! Did you get my postcard? Has anyone else contacted you? Are Grzelczak, Przyszcz, and Zwierzyk home? Tell Grzel to get a typewriter, for mine will be taken away. Has the flat been plundered? How is Marysia? Are children attending school? If you are suffering from poverty – which is very likely – go to Schreiber, maybe he will help you out. Do not pay the rent. Where do you get money?

My return is uncertain. On the other side you’ll find my contact information – copy it and add “Russia” at the top – [illegible]. I need many things, because I have no clothes and it’s freezing.

Greetings to my friends. I am sending you hugs and kisses. God be with you.

Staśku