Polish Refugees in post-war Surrey: A story
of a displaced wartime community by Wies Rogalski
A talk for Refugee Week at Surrey History
Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND
Thurs 26 June 2014
7.30pm-8.30pm
Tickets are £5.00, please book online at
www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents
or at Surrey History Centre.
Wies Rogalski was born in Guildford to Polish
parents who were displaced to Britain in 1947. For the first six
years of his life he lived in a disused Canadian army base called Tweedsmuir
Camp which stood near Thursley Village in Surrey. The camp, rather than
being demolished after the war, was used to house Polish ex-service men
and women who had been demobilised in Britain. This talk is an illustrated
presentation about Wies’ life at Tweedsmuir and his family’s integration
into British society.
Wies and his brother Zen, have lead an HLF
project to capture the memories of those who lived at Tweedsmuir Camp.
The project DVD and book will be available to purchase at the talk (correct
money or cheques only please). The Polish Community in Tweedsmuir Camp
in Surrey after World War Two is priced £12, and the DVD In Their
Own Words - Members of Tweedsmuir Camp community talk about life in
a Polish Resettlement Camp, is £9.99. All proceeds go to the maintenance
of the Tweedsmuir Camp Exhibition at the Rural Life Centre, Tilford.
Ms Di Stiff, Collections Development
Archivist
Surrey History Centre
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