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Arrangements Made to Locate Americans’ Relatives in Poland

October 12, 1939
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Americans desiring to locate their relatives in Poland, particularly in Warsaw, can now do so through the State Department, the J.T.A. was informed today by Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, United States Ambassador to Poland.

Biddle disclosed that prior to evacuation of the Embassy from Poland he made arrangements whereby American Vice-Consul Ghylinski would remain in Warsaw in order to be helpful during the occupation period to Americans or to people in whom Americans were interested.

Ghylinski is still in Warsaw and inquiries regarding relatives in the occupied zones can be addressed to him through the State Department in Washington, which can be transmitted via the American consulate in Berlin.

The possibility is not excluded that direct inquiries by interested persons in America can reach Ghylinski in Warsaw if mail and cable connections between Warsaw and neutral countries are reinstated. In this case, inquiries should be addressed: “American Vice-Consul Ghylinski, American Embassy, 29 Aleja Ujazdowska, Warsaw.”

Ghylinski is also representing the interests of British and French citizens in Poland and was entrusted with the keys to the embassies of these countries in Warsaw prior to their occupation.

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