Jane

=__**JANES AWSOME PAGE! **__ = ==== __Hi. My name is Jane (Gabriel) Smolira. I know. Hardest last-name in the world. Now try Karwacka. Anyway, my whanou is actually from Poland (explains the last name), but my land is Aotearoa. I'm wwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more kiwi than polish __ ====

=__ STANISLAW KARWACKI __= =Stanislaw is my great grand father from my mums side. I'm writing about him because until now, I knew very little about him. This history is very important to me, because my family is polish, and poland plays a vry importaant role in WW2.=

=Anyway, Stanislaw was born in Kamienczyce, near Krakow 1915. He lived a rather eventfull 94 years, and he passed away in 2009. He spent his boyhood in Kamienczyce, where his mother died when he was 10. He was born in WW1, in a part of poland that was under Russian ocupation, so he was actually born a Russian citizan. He was left with 2 younger sisters to look after, untill he had a step mother. This was very bad news. His step mother HATED him, and kicked him out. She forced hin to be a street kid, to make his own life.=

=He lived in a school bulding, where he went for only 7 years. In that 7 years, he learnt to read and write brillintly.After he finished school, he went back to his horrid step mother, to workk as a farmers hand, untill the age of 21. when he was only 21, he was called to join the army. he had no choice.=

=He trained, and learnt some important self defence skills, during 3 years in the army. But the day before he was ment to leave, war broke out.=

**During war, while he was fighting, he was captured, by the germans. when he easdcaped, he went to (I think) a barn, where he survied for a week in a hay stack.**

**After war, Germany gave Poland back a part of their land.When Stanislaw was old, he went to live with his son .when my great grandad decided to live there, it was like moving to Germany itself ! It still felt like Germany, so it was very difficlt to fit in. He spent the rest of his life there, untillhe died in 2009.**