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Embroidered shield by Paulina Zelke
So Anna McInnes visited the centre today and while she was talking about her parents she mentioned her mother spent many evenings embroidering a ‘shield’ for Breckland Middle School. Anna’s mother, Paulina Zelke, helped out at the school and the embroidery project consumed much of her mother’s spare time. Anna described the shield – an…
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Polish Camp
Today we had a visitor bring in two photo albums of their family from the 1940s and 50s, including time spent on the Army camp off London Road just after the Second World War. Anna McInnes’ parents, Alfred and Paulina Zelke, met while Alfred was serving alongside the British Army in Italy. Paulina was Slovenian…
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Polish 2nd Corps visit Brandon (1946)
Polish Army disembark in Brandon, 1946 … Following the end of the Second World War there was a large settlement of Polish ex-servicemen into Brandon. They have since been credited with restoring the weekly market in the years following the war and many created their own businesses which are still thriving today. Today, generations later,…