Izydor Prokopp Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1920
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Ozorkow 4. 7.920 My dear Captain, I have before me Your kind letter of 5 March 1920. Thank You very much for remembrance You will know what I do now and where I am? Naturally and shall tell you what I have made after our last parting. You have rested in Villingen and I were send in other camp. I have a lange voyadge ano after two or three days I was unloaded in camp Gutersloh in [Westfalen]
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It is a great camp for three thousand mens, where all prisonners of war were formerly hangred – but you know very good what we have had in Germany; for us [Poland] – men there were bad because the boshe desired to forme an army of polandmens. I have rested there till beginning the revolution Germany – the end of November 1918. In this time I escaped and after two weeks had been in my natal town where I found all in destruction because they were the position and in time the Hun occupied the land.
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My parents rested in Russia and till this time I know not more of him. I rested no long there. After three or four days I received an ordre from our polonaise genreall staff to come to Service i our army. Frome thise time I were in front center boches and [Bolsheviks], where I were twice wounded and three times contused. Now I am in list of [Bialystoker] shooters regiment. So, it is all of myself. I beg your kindness to write me now I must do that to become the civisme of U.S.A. If you will
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to help me I shall be very gratefull for you. I send you my best kind regards and I am waiting your answer Most sincerely, I Prokopp [ms illegible: 1 wd] My adresse Izydor Prokopp ul. Mickiewicza No 34 Bialystok Poland Wladyslaw Danielewicz
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| Title | Izydor Prokopp Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1920 |
| Creator | Prokopp, Izydor |
| Source | Prokopp, Izydor. Letter to John Franklin Hardesty. 1920. John Franklin Hardesty Papers, 1867-2007. A2293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. Hardesty corresponded with the men he was imprisoned with for many years after their release from prison. In this letter, Izydor Prokopp of Poland, wrote Hardesty about his activities since leaving Villingen Prisoner of War Camp. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Germany; World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | 1920 |
| Language | English |