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HELENA DERWICH (CWIRKO)
Osada Kuchczyce, District Nieswiez

My parents and my older sister Irena managed to reach Italy, where they went through the 2nd Polish Corps campaign. The youngest Henryk and I found ourselves in England, Henryk as part of the Cadets and I in Scotland was included in the 1st Corps of the Polish Army. After five years' service in the Women's Auxiliary Service I settled in England where I lived until 1983. After my husband's death I emigrated permanently to Canada so as to join the rest of the family which after a ten year sojourn in Argentina found themselves in that country. My parents died and are buried in the military cemetery in Montreal. We still live in that city - the three of us - sister Irena and her family, brother Henryk and his family, and I myself.