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Arizona relative responds to story about recently-discovered World War II items
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Lower than every week after Arizona’s Household informed the story of Anna Kowalczyk and her daughter Julia Anna Bengston, Kowalczyk’s granddaughter Judith Morrison reached out to Arizona’s Household eager to know extra concerning the objects discovered within the trunk of a 2005 Mercedes. “The place have they been all this time?” Morrison requested. “I noticed that unfold out on Mrs. Dysinger’s eating room desk and I used to be shocked.”
Morrison has pictures of her grandmother and mom; she even has quilts and crochets made by Anna. “She would all the time entertain us youngsters, all of her grandkids,” Morrison mentioned. “And he or she would all the time keep in mind us at birthdays and at Christmas.”
However these pictures and letters discovered, which embody kinfolk from Poland asking for assist after World Struggle II, present a glimpse into Morrison’s household that she by no means knew existed.
“Do I’ve a long-lost relative on the market someplace within the Phoenix space?” she requested. That’s the large remaining query for each Morrison and Elizabeth Dysinger, the Polish-born girl who at the moment has a bag stuffed with recollections after her mother-in-law came upon concerning the lacking objects within the trunk of a 2005 Mercedes at work.
“Who had them final, and why did they hold them within the trunk of a automobile?” Dysinger requested. “I really feel like I’ve gotten to know the household slightly bit simply taking a look at their pictures and studying their letters and every little thing. So I’m slightly bit invested.”
The subsequent step for Dysinger is returning these supplies (a few of which return so far as the early 1900s) to Morrison. “I would like to get this again to the proprietor, again to the rightful household,” Dysinger mentioned.
“Having the ability to learn the Polish language, it’s not that I’d need to know word-by-word,” Morrison mentioned. “However perhaps a abstract of these letters. The historical past may be very attention-grabbing.”
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