Boleslaw Raczkiewicz Married May 1944

A lot happened the year Boleslaw Raczkiewicz (my great uncle) married. He and Jozefa Janina Bender married May 1944 (exact date unknown--if anyone in Poland knows it, I would love to hear!) His mother Katarzyna (nee Kaszucka) died two months earlier, at age 72, on March 11, 1944. Boleslaw was living with her. He married at age 37 in May of the same year. Then two months later in July, the house was set on fire by the Russian army. This means that any photos we are getting were with someone else at the time since any in the house burned up. (On May 11 you saw a painting done by Joanne Raczkiewicz of the house that was rebuilt.) Of his eight siblings, the ones that likely attended the wedding were Stanislawa, Paulina and Piotr. His oldest brother Jan would have returned to Poland but was likely deceased by this time (his wife was remarried and deceased by April 1945.) Anthony (my grandfather, Joseph and Mary were still in the United States. Franciszek was killed the year before in the rotunda in Zamosc for attempting to “steal” his own corn. A year after their marriage, Boleslaw and Jozefa’s son Eugenuisz was born (1945) and after that their son Miecyslaw was born (1947.) Eugeniusa and Miecyslaw are first cousins living in Poland of my mother (Shirley born 1936) and of Theresa (Kufta) Parkanzky (born 1935.) Other first cousins are two surviving children of my grandfather’s sister Stanislawa: Wanda (Bielak) Soldaj (born 1927) and Maria (Bielak) Dubowki (born ?) I am getting acquainted with Eugeniusz’ son Bartosz and Miecyslaw’s sons Tomasz and Jacek. (the photo is from Bartosz Raczkiewicz)