Tadeusz Wos wrote "A Good Kiwi Life" and it is available to read through NZETC A good Kiwi life
- a truly captivating read which starts ... My earliest memories were of a full and comfortable life in Poland with my mother, father, brother and sister. We lived in a good house on a farm with plenty of open space around us. Who would have known that in only a few short years I would be standing on the decks of the USS General Randall in Wellington, New Zealand, holding my brother Bronislaw's hand and looking at our new home. A home without parents, family or our Polish language and customs.

This strange country had offered us a place to live but would it turn out to be a home? We were the lucky ones. After four years at the Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua, we became reunited with our father, now a widower, who had come looking for us at the end of World War II. He was very grateful to the New Zealand Government for the opportunity to work here and raise his family. He was given a job as a blacksmith at the Ruakura Research Farm in Hamilton ...


Visit that site for a fascinating look at our first Polish Refugees - there is a huge number of old photos at the site and some of the names mentioned on the photos are:

NOTE not in alphabetical order so names might repeat

Tadeusz Wos
Bronislaw Wos
Jan Wos (Nawalaniec)
Adolf Nawalaniec
Danuta Wos
Jadwiga Leszewicz
Stefania Zawada
Jozef Zawada
Mieczyslaw Zawada
Stefania Nawalaniec
Maria Zazulak
Janina Swierczynska
Rozalia Manterys
Janina Szalkowska
Janina Krystman
Bronislawa Lis
Petronela Ostrowska
Stanislawa Swierczynska
Jadwiga Swierczynska
Maria Wojciechowska
Janina Kornobis
Krystyna Manterys
Janina Labedz
Jadwiga Wasiukiewicz
Stanislawa Markowska
Antonina Wolyncewicz
Leokadia Jackowska
Genowefa Adamczyk
Barbara Szczepanska
Halina Wenckiewicz
Emilia Sordel
Irena Frydrych
Anna Jablonska
Barbara Sprusinska
Alicja Wisniewska
Alicja Glowacka
Jolanta Wenckiewicz
Bronislawa Jasionowicz
Danuta Szysz
Alfreda Kornobis
Olga Sajewicz
Ewa Wierzbicka
Olga Sumicz
Stanislawa Drozdowska
Janina Krystman
Bronislawa Lis
Jozefa Wypych
Janina Szalkowska
Maria Mokrzycka
Helena Szymulska
Aniela Adach
Maria Zazulak
Maria Ambroziewicz
Helena Wenckiewicz
Maria Zielinska
Rozalia Manterys
Stefania Rombel
Zofia Kolodzinska
Stefania Nawalaniec
Maria Mokrzycka
Helena Kasprzyk
Krystyna Bojda
Krystyna Manterys
Zofia Kornobis
Regina Kupis
Jozefa Wypych
Wiktoria Wypych
Helena Kraczko
Helena Swierdlowicz
Jadwiga Walasiewicz
Maria Wozniak
Magdalena Kowalczyk
Wanda Pieszczoch
Irena Iwan
Wladyslawa Wegrzyn
Stefania Pieczonka
Olga Sumicz
Krystyna Siadek
Wanda Plusa
Aniela Gabrysz
Irena Wasiukiewicz
Zofia Dembkowska
Irena Banach
Helena Pilarska
Bronislawa Dziama
Emilia Sondej
Irena Niedumow
Regina Nowacka
Eugenia Sajewicz
Stefania Pracz
Leokadia Glogowska
Stefania Wrotniak
Kazimiera Pruszynska
Janina Dzwiniel
Teresa Sztychmiller
Danuta Jankiewicz
Zofia Pleciak
Maria Jania
Weronika Potem
Zofia Luszczewska
Irena Chaber
Genowefa Lukomska
Irena Szadkowska
Hugh McKinnon
Jadwiga Korszun
Teresa Wypych
Paulina Dybka
Wladyslawa Kubiak
Maria Wysokinska
Wanda Wierzbinska
Maria Buberda
Danuta Debska
Paulina Jania
Maria Depczynska
Teresa Szczepanksa
Czeslawa Wierzbinska
Maria Juchnowicz
Augustyna Aniecka
Jadwiga Gil
Wanda Dejnakowska
Franciszka Wegrzyn
Maria Dac
Felicja Nadolska
Emilia Banas
Aleksandra Kraczko
Izabela Wisniewska
Czeslawa Gazdowicz
Zdzislawa Kolodziej
Genowefa Pekalska
Maria Korczak-Bucewicz
Irena Iwan
Czeslwa Mokrzycka
Genowefa Knap
Olga Piesocka
Helena Sierdlowicz
Janina Smietana
Eleonora Pruszynska
Magdalena Kowalczyk
Renata Kazimierzak
Krystyna Golebiowska
Jadwiga Walasiewicz
Irena Staniszewska
Mary Eising
Irena Tabisz
Irena Zolnowska
Zyta Bak
Danuta Ziolo
Anna Przychodzko
Teresa Ogonowska
Maria Wozniak
Eugenia Pracz
Stefania Serdynska
Wladyslawa Pilarska
Genowefa Apanowicz
Helena Przychodzko
Stefania Mokrzycka
Alicja Tarnowska
Maria Wrotniak
Leokadia Belczacka
Helena Kilian
Jadwiga Jankiewicz
Anna Depa
Salomea Szymczycha
Anna Zazulak
Olga Szulgan
Anastazja (Zofia) Adamczyk
Zofia Pacanowska
Aniela Adach
Stefania Nawalaniec
Jadwiga Swierczynska
Weronika Wozniak
Janina Szalkowska
Katarzyna Piesocka
Stanislawa Swierczynska
Stanislawa Drozdowska
Bronislawa Lis
Helena Kasprzyk
Waleria Merwid
Janina Marchewa
Maria Mokrzycka
Maria Kozyniak
Jozefa Wrotniak
Jadwiga Haptas
Genowefa Dzwiniel
Jadwiga Szczapa
Krystyna Manterys
Maria Tinald
Janina Dabrowska
Antonina Wolyncewicz


.. many more names at site