The life of Stanislaw Jesinski (Stanley Kean)

My grandfather, Stanislaw Jesinski, was born in Przemyśl, Poland, in 1911. As war was about to break out in 1939, he was in Lwów and traveled home to Przemyśl (his train ticket is included). When word was given to flee to France, he made his way south into Romania, headed for Bucharest, where the Polish Embassy was giving out passports to enable travel. He then traveled to Split before heading to France. The Poles were trained at a camp called Coëtquidan. When France surrendered, the Poles headed for ports in France and Spain and made their way to the UK. He was initially based in Biggar, Scot... Mehr ...