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I am interested in participating in this site because the Polish contribution to the WWII effort has been much UNDER-reported in the years since the war, and this has been a disservice to all the Poles who fought so gallantly and who died in the name of freedom.

On my mother's side (the Siomkajlo family) - 10 members of the family were deported to the USSR and only 4 of these survived the ordeal. Yet the world knows almost nothing of these deportations and the inhuman conditions that were imposed on millions of innocents by the Russians. Why ? Because the West needed Stalin's Russia as an ally against Germany and so they did not want to embarrass the Russians by revealing what they knew of these attrocities.

On my father's side (the Szypowski family) - my Dad and three of his brothers fought in the war - 2 were wounded and subsequently captured and spent nearly 4 years in a German POW camp. Their contribution, and that of their fellow soldiers, marines and pilots, have also been overlooked in most documentaries about the war.