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Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Andrew Nizynski led an eventful life. He was born in Gdynia, Poland, in 1924 and served in the Polish Home Army in World War 2. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and was a prisoner of war in Germany. He went to London in 1946 and married his wife Danuta in 1949. She had also been a German POW. They came to L.A. in 1951 and raised three children. Andrew worked as an electronics engineer and computer memory systems specialist. He died in 2013 at the age of 89; Danuta died three years later. Danuta Nizinski of the Polish Home Army and an unknown women prepare food on a camp stove in Germany during World War II circa 1945. The women wear wooden clogs provided by the German army. This image was possibly taken in the German POW camp Oberlangen when the camp was liberated by the Polish 1st Armored Division in 1945.
World War, 1939-1945 Polish people Polish Americans Women Women prisoners of war Prisoners of war Prisoner-of-war camps Women soldiers Women veterans Soldiers Veterans Clogs Cooking Fences Germany Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. Polish American photographs
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