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My mother was born Maria Marmulewicz, in Usznia, Sloczw, Lvov. Her brothers & sisters were Josepha, Michellina, Stephca and Joscva. My mother was captured by Nazi forces as a young girl and taken to Germany where she was placed in forced labour firstly in munitions factory and then in the home of paint factory owner where she was the house maid and carer for the factory owner's elderly parents.
My mother's sister Joscva married a Russian and moved to Russia and has not been heard from since.
Her mother had the same name as my mother - Maria Marmulewicz. I do not know her name before marriage. She married twice. Her first husband, (name unknown), was in the Polish army and maybe a war hero. Her second husband was Thomas Marmulewicz who is my grandfather and who lived to 92. He had property in France.
My father Stanislaw Szymkow was born August 28, 1914 in Tarnopol in the county of Nosowce, Poland. His parents were Joseph and Frozina (spelling??) Szymkow. My father was a security guard after WW11 in Germany, guarding USA Army stores but had been in the Polish Army during the war. He met my mother, Maria Marmulewicz, in a Nazi POW camp in Germany. They married when they were free after the war and moved to Australia.
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