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Telechany, Belarus is located at Latitude 52.31.00N and Longitude 25.51.00E. It is at an altitude of 501 feet. The approximate population for a 7 kilometer area from this point is 2,170 people.
Other names:Telekhany
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Mr. Jacek Gutowski of Warsaw Poland has supplied the below information for this page. This was supplied in July of 2005.
My grand-father's name was Marian Gwiazdowski. He was killed somewhere in an unknown place when captured by the NKWD in 1939. The only information we have is a short letter he gave to a railway-man when they transported them somewhere to the USSR. My grand-mother's name was Ludmila Gwiazdowska. They were both teaching in the ground-school in Telechany. She survived the war in the Gulag in Siberia and then returned to Poland after Stalin's death. She died one year ago. Her children: one year old Alicja Gwiazdowska (my future mother) and her brother Marian Gwiazdowski (just one week old) were also send to Siberia as "enemies of the Soviet government". They returned to Poland in 1948 with false documents as children of other Polish woman. They survived the hell but my mother suffers until nowadays from mental and physical diseases originated from the "Siberian trauma". Long and horrible story.... Marian is still alive. He is in quite good condition.
The name Telechany comes from the Tatar language and it means probably "a tomb of Khan". Except the Jewish, Polish and Belorussian people also some Tatars lived in the area before 1939. My grand-mother told me that co-existence of all the people of different cultures and religions were very friendly before the Soviet invasion in 1939. In her memory it was a very quiet, idyllic place having this special climate of the Polish eastern provinces that we call "Kresy" (the Margins).
The below photos were made during World War I, when German troops stationed in the area in 1914-1918 just behind the East front line. The German army built a narrow gauge railway which connected Telechany with the Brest - Moscow railway and was a window to the outer World for the inhabitants of the town until 1939. It was then used to transport Polish people in 1939-1940 to the Soviet camps (Gulags), and then to transport Jewish people to the nazi extermination camps.
These picture are on this web site with the written permission of Tomasz Wisniewski.
Catholic church and bell tower in winter scenery
Market place of the town
Church and cemetery
Poor Jewish Family
The Germans on their quarter
Click here for a a very interesting web site about Telechany.
Nearby cities are (miles are only an approximation):
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Other names:Telekhany
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Mr. Jacek Gutowski of Warsaw Poland has supplied the below information for this page. This was supplied in July of 2005.
My grand-father's name was Marian Gwiazdowski. He was killed somewhere in an unknown place when captured by the NKWD in 1939. The only information we have is a short letter he gave to a railway-man when they transported them somewhere to the USSR. My grand-mother's name was Ludmila Gwiazdowska. They were both teaching in the ground-school in Telechany. She survived the war in the Gulag in Siberia and then returned to Poland after Stalin's death. She died one year ago. Her children: one year old Alicja Gwiazdowska (my future mother) and her brother Marian Gwiazdowski (just one week old) were also send to Siberia as "enemies of the Soviet government". They returned to Poland in 1948 with false documents as children of other Polish woman. They survived the hell but my mother suffers until nowadays from mental and physical diseases originated from the "Siberian trauma". Long and horrible story.... Marian is still alive. He is in quite good condition.
The name Telechany comes from the Tatar language and it means probably "a tomb of Khan". Except the Jewish, Polish and Belorussian people also some Tatars lived in the area before 1939. My grand-mother told me that co-existence of all the people of different cultures and religions were very friendly before the Soviet invasion in 1939. In her memory it was a very quiet, idyllic place having this special climate of the Polish eastern provinces that we call "Kresy" (the Margins).
The below photos were made during World War I, when German troops stationed in the area in 1914-1918 just behind the East front line. The German army built a narrow gauge railway which connected Telechany with the Brest - Moscow railway and was a window to the outer World for the inhabitants of the town until 1939. It was then used to transport Polish people in 1939-1940 to the Soviet camps (Gulags), and then to transport Jewish people to the nazi extermination camps.
These picture are on this web site with the written permission of Tomasz Wisniewski.
Catholic church and bell tower in winter scenery
Market place of the town
Church and cemetery
Poor Jewish Family
The Germans on their quarter
Click here for a a very interesting web site about Telechany.
Nearby cities are (miles are only an approximation):
- KHOMSK 29miles WSW
- PINSK 30 miles SSE
- BREST 96 miles WSW
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