* Komańcza (Lemkovyna Region) in 1942.

During the German occupation in 1942 in the village of Komańcza in Lemkovyna Region (Sanok County, Poland) medical and racial research was carried out. Its purpose and mileage is unknown today, therefore we – researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – have been trying to uncover this topic.
        In 2007, after 60 years, our University received from the U.S. (Smithsonian Institution, Washington) the documentation of these studies, which had beed led by the Institute of German Work in the East (Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit) – the German scientific institution founded on the basis of closed Jagiellonian University during the Second World War. The set of documents we received included, among others, personal health profiles of individual residents of Komańcza, part of which is now at the hands of people (or their relatives) who are concerned as we had an opportunity to find them and meet one another.
        However, the archival data is far from being complete; only the contact with former habitants of the village or their descendants can reveal German activity in Komańcza. Expulsions of 1946-47 scattered the habitants of this village almost worldwide.
        Therefore we appeal with a request to help us: we hope that thanks to you there will be an occasion to find other people from Komańcza (apart from those we met in this village and in many villages in Ukraine). Please contact us by e-mail (gdemel@wp.pl ) and help us and also former and present habitants of Komańcza, learn more about this history.

Patrycja Trzeszczyńska (www.etnologia.uj.edu.pl)
Grzegorz Demel
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
(Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie)

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