• Jakób Rymaszewski, the son of Tomasz Rymaszewski, bearing "Pobóg" coat of arms, served as an armoured noble or an "armoured companion". In Polish : "towarzysz pancerny", i.e. a cavalry officer wearing a cuirass armour. In the Polish army, the "towarzysz" was a noble who served in the Army and his pay was relative to the number of men he brought with him in his "retinue" (poczet). He armed, provisioned and commanded his men.
  
  During the Turkish invasion of the Polish Commonwealth's eastern frontier, Jakób was killed in a battle with the Turks at Kamieniec Podolski in 1672.

POBÓG

Rymaszewski ancestors : 18th century Polish nobles ("szlachta").



• Rymaszewskis are recorded in the above heraldic book as "Polish nobles bearing the Pobóg coat of arms (see image on right) and living in Grand Dutchy of Litva (Litwa) around 1640" [MSR-24,74]

• N. Rymaszewski, coat of arms (c.o.a.) Pobóg, married Miss Czechowicz, a daughter of the cupbearer (podczaszy), an officer in a royal household . They lived in Oszmiana district. [MSR-74]
  
• Adam Rymaszewski, c.o.a. Pobóg, lived in Oszmiana district, Wilno province, information dated 1757 [MSR-74]
  
• Wincenty Rymaszewski was the King's official from 1781 to 1794 as a regent of the "Szewelski gród", a fortified stronhold. [MSR-74,75,4]

• N. Rymaszewski, c.o.a. Pobóg, married Miss Chlopicka, information dated 1757. [MSR-74]
  
• A family of Rymaszewski, c.o.a. Pobóg, lived in Wilkomirski district, Podole province. [MSR-74]
  
• N. Rymaszewski, c.o.a. Pobóg, married Miss Godycka. They had two boys Wawrzyniec and N. Remiesz - Rymaszewski and a daughter who married Mikulski. [MSR-74]
  
• Teresa Rymaszewska married Wojciech Korwin-Bienkowski, a member of wojski wsch. (?), information dated 1781. [MSR-77]
  
  

  From the internet :

• N. Rymaszewski, was a member of the Grodno provincial parliament in 1773.
  
• Stanislaw Rymaszewski. - District Public Library in Lublin has a print (druk) by Stanislaw Rymaszewski, dated 1785 and titled "The sermon on the occasion of (King) Stanislaus August birthday" - published by Trinity Order. ("Kazanie na dzien narodzin Stanislawa Augusta" - Drukarnia Trinitarzy).

• Pawel Rymaszewski from Wilno province married Agata Wolczacka. Their son Julian Rymaszewski was born in 1812 at the time of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Julian studied law at the University of Wilno.

  In 1831, both father and 19 year old son Julian took part in the Uprising against Russia.

• Julian Rymaszewski (born 1812), the son of Pawel and Agata, left his law studies to become on 19 August 1831 a youngest second lieutenant in 3rd infantry regiment (3 ppl) to take part in the "November 1831" Uprising against Russia. After the failure of the uprising he had to leave Poland to avoid persecution.
  
  In February 1833 he went to Besancon in France, then on 7 April 1833 to Switzerland. He returned to France in January 1834 and from 27 September 1836 studied law and medicine in Paris. Then he offered his services (3 pp) to the Sultan and sailed for Africa from the port of Marseilles in the south of France on board the ship "Tabor" on 28 February 1856.

In 1871, at the end of the Franco - Prussian War, he was accused of participation in a revolt against French government. The revolt was called "the Commune of Paris". He was imprisoned on the pontoons in Paris and died next year in 1872 at the age of 60.

• Wasyl Rymaszewski, the son of Mateusz was born in the early 1800s in Kraków, Poland (see below), but moved to the Ukraine. His birth certificate was written in Russian and it states that Vasiliy Matveev(ich) Rymashevskiy is of noble rank (dvoryanin) in the Russian Empire, and a Roman Catholic. He lived, and was buried, in the town of Pereyaslav (Perejaslaw) (also called Pereyaslav Khmel'nitskiy) south of the city of Kiev. By profession he was a medical doctor and was married to a lady from a Polish noble family of Królikowski, coat of arms Poraj. He had a son who was an attorney and later became a judge in the town Zolotonosha, a little further south from Pereyaslav.
  
  His present day descendants N. Rymaszewska and her grandson George Levchenko now live in the USA. Email: glevchen@engineer.com

MY REMARKS : Kraków in the early 1800s.
At the turn of the 18th century, after final partition of Poland in 1795, Kraków was in the Austrian sector. When Napoleon conquered Central Europe, and Polish troops were serving in his armies, he restored the Polish state as a Duchy of Warsaw, which included Kraków. The Duchy of Warsaw existed only from 1806 to 1815.

After Napoleon's defeat in Russia (retreat from Moscow in 1812) and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the victorious Russia absorbed the Duchy of Warsaw in the Russian Empire, calling it "Kingdom of Poland" with the Tsar becoming also the "King of Poland". However, the "Kingdom" did not include Kraków. The Vienna Congress of 1815 declared it a Free City of Kraków. It was independent until 1846, when it was again taken over by Austria, becoming part of Galicia province. After insurrection against Russia in 1831, the Poles in the "Kingdom" were deprived of all civil liberties.

• Jan Rymaszewski, was a steward of Duchy of Nieswiez in the year 1747. File contains various cash vouchers and bonds.
• Jan Rymaszewski, was a steward Olycki (of town Olyce) from 1754 to 1765. File contains receipt for salary, various cash vouchers, copy of payment receipt for services done, etc.
• Pawel Rymaszewski, was a cashier of town Sluck from 1802 to 1808. File contains cash vouchers and receipt for salary, accounts and deposits to the treasury.
• Adam Rymaszewski, was a land surveyor in 1811. File contains vouchers and receipt for amounts due.

• Mateusz Rymaszewski and Barbara Rymaszewska, who lived in Gieniusze near Sokólka, owned a forest area in Lipin - Record dated 12 October 1799. (Record no.1126)

• Mikolaj Rymaszewski lived in Kowno area (now Kaunas in Lithuania), and had a son named Piotr.
• Piotr Rymaszewski, in turn, had three sons:
  (1) Marcin Rymaszewski (1854 record)
  (2) Wojciech Rymaszewski, and
  (3) Andrzej Rymaszewski (1866 record)

• Florian Rymaszewski lived in Kowno area (now Kaunas in Lithuania), and had a son named Marcin. .
• Marcin Rymaszewski, in turn, had three sons:
  (1) Wincenty Rymaszewski (1806 record)
  (2) Hilary Rymaszewski, and
  (3) Józef Rymaszewski

• Jakób Rymaszewski lived in Minsk area,
  and had a son:
• Wincenty Rymaszewski (1853 record)
  and a grandson:
• Jan Rymaszewski (1853 record)

• Stefan Rymaszewski lived in Minsk area,
  and had a son:
• Józef Rymaszewski, (1853 record)
  and two grandsons:
  (1) Filip Rymaszewski (1853 record)
  (2) Jan Rymaszewski

• Florian Rymaszewski lived in Wilno area, and was a Russian language translator at the Maryampolski district Bank from 1845 to 1857. Later he held a position of Secretary in the management of bank's Accountancy department. [Additional info also in MSR-550, 586]
  Florian had a son Adam (1835 record)
  
• Adam Rymaszewski, Florian's son, had three boys: (1835 record)
  (1) Otto Rymaszewski (1835 record)
  (2) Mieczyslaw Rymaszewski
  (3) Herkulian Rymaszewski

• Mieczyslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Adam Rymaszewski (compare Adam and Mieczyslaw above in 1835 record) is recorded as a Chief Medical Doctor of Catherine's (?) Military Hospital in Kuban in 1870 and 1871. Also in the "Russian medical register", St. Petersburg, 1878. [MSR-421]

• Feliks Rymaszewski took active part in the Polish 1830-31 Uprising against the "tsarist oppression of Russia".
• His son, Wladyslaw Rymaszewski, who was a colonel in the Russian High Command of 6th Infantry Division (March 1863), was accused of collaborating in the 1863-64 Polish Uprising against "the tsar's rule over Russia".
  
  Not quite true. This was typical communist ideological propaganda. Rymaszewskis and all Poles were fighting for Poland's independence from Russia. They were NOT rising against the Tsar's rule and the Russian political system.

• Year 1864 : a family of Rymaszewski (Polish and catholic) lived in Oszmiana district, and owned an estate called Jatolowicze, which included a village named Rodziewicze with 14 houses and 42 inhabitants in 1864.

• Adam Rymaszewski was an engineer, building roads in Przemysl during 1870-78, and in Sadecki region 1874-93. [MSR-24,206]
  
• Aleksander Rymaszewski from Zielezniki, had offered in 1840 a large church bell to the Church Sw. Krzyza in Pultusk. The bell was inscribed in Latin "Fecit Alexander Rymaszewski, Anno Domini 1840" [from internet - www.info.pultusk.pl ]
  
• Wincenty Rymaszewski, the son of Jan Rymaszewski, is recorded in the Russian "Commemorative book of Suwalki guberniya (province)", as a clerk of the Court in Kalwaria between 1872-75, and in Suwalki Provincial Court in 1877. [MSR-742]
  
• Hipolit Rymaszewski, the son of August Rymaszewski, is recorded in 1850 as a municipal medical doctor of town Ostróg, Wolyn province. [MSR-24]. Also in the "Russian medical register", St. Petersburg, 1878. [MSR-421]
  
• Kazimiera Rymaszewska, Benedictine nun, is recorded in the Russian "Commemorative book of Kowno guberniya (province)" as the Mother Superior of Benedictine Monastery in Kowno in 1894. [MSR-746]

• Fabian Rymaszewski, the son of Józef Rymaszewski, was the Commander of the 6th battalion, 11th Artillery Brigade in 1879.

• N. Rymaszewski, was a Second Lieutenant in the Bretski Infantry Regiment (record dated 1831).

• Michal (Mikhail) Rymaszewski, born about 1850, lived in Ustron and was a state forest ranger and gamekeeper. He died in tragic circumstances by the end of the 19th century, leaving a son Stefan who was about 10 year old.
• Stefan (Stepan) Rymaszewski, the son of Michal was born in Ustron in 1880. He moved later to live in Pogost (or Pohost), about 20 km south of Sluck. Stepan's son Ivan (Jan) and grandson Leonid also lived in the Sluck area.
  Their present day descendants Alexander and his son Artem Rymashevski now live in Melbourne, Australia.

• Wincenty (Vincent, Vikenti) Rymaszewski, and his wife Albina lived in Sluck in the second part of the 19th century. They had three children: (1) Telesfor, born 1883, (2) Adam, born 1885, (3) Wilhelm, born 1888. Young Telesfor and Wilhelm emigrated to the United States in 1905 and settled in the state Wisconsin.
  Telesfor's present day descendants David and his sons Daniel and James Rymaszewski now live in Milwaukee, USA.

• Michal (Mikhail) Rymaszewski, the son of Kazimierz (Kazimir) was born about 1870. As a young man, near the end of the 19th century, he had been suspected by the Tsarist police of political dissident activity. Similarly to the fate of many Polish insurrectionists, he was sentenced to be exiled to a remote region of northern Russia. The exile, recorded as Mikhail Kazimirovich Rymashevskiy, was deported to a town called Syktyvkar, past Kotlas on the Vytchegda river in Komi Region.
  His present day descendants Slava and his son Victor Rymashevsky now live in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Northern Russia.
  
  

  From internet "Google" search : BOBRUYSK Uyezd, Minsk gubern., 1907 Duma List.

  • Kazimir (Kazimierz) Rymaszewski, the son of Ignaty (Ignacy), is listed on 1907 Bobruysk Duma List. Details are: nationality Polish, resident of Bobrujsk (Bobruysk), Minsk guberniya.

• Ludwika Rymaszewska, the daughter of Józef Rymaszewski, owned 44 ha at Swojaszki estate in Nowógrodek district.
  
• Józef Rymaszewski and his three sons : Stanislaw, Franciszek and Feliks owned 58 ha at Zabrodze estate in Nowógrodek district.
  
• Wincenty Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, owned ?? ha in 1889 (check ref. [MSR-413] in Nowógrodek district.

• The sons of Albert Rymaszewski: (1) Franciszek owned 13 ha, and (2) Adam owned 10 ha at Bobrównia estate.
  
• Stella Rymaszewska, the daughter of Fremant Rymaszewski, owned 23 ha at Winków estate, Sluck district.
  
• Konstanty Rymaszewski, the son of Stefan, owned 42 ha at Korbowce estate, Sluck district.

• Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Antoni, owned 55 ha at Kolosowszczyna (Kolosowszczyzna) estate near Kopyl, located south of Rymasze in Sluck district (see map above).
  
• Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Tomasz, owned 17 ha at ??, Minsk guberniya.
  
• Wincenty Rymaszewski, the son of Albert, owned 12 ha estate at Kolosowszczyzna in Sluck district.

• Wiktor Rymaszewski and his two sons : Ferdynand and Walenty owned 161 ha at Ostrów estate, Switez district.
  
• Adam Rymaszewski, the son of Stanislaw, owned 23 ha at Ostrówki estate.
• Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Jerzy, owned 31 ha at Zaolchów estate, Borysov district.
  
• Jan Rymaszewski, the son of Bonifacy, owned 33 ha at Trasejki estate in Nowógrodek district.

• NN. Rymaszewski - the manager of Radziwills properties. (Fund record 37 - nr.2).
• NN. Rymaszewski - the administrator of Radziwills Piaseczno property. (Fund record 439 nr.2)
• Jan Rymaszewski - the general economist of Olyksij property. (Fund record 319 & 320 nr.2)
• Józef Rymaszewski - and his wife Brigita - were the leaseholders. (Fund record 386)

• 1901: Aleksander Rymaszewski, the son of Maciej Rymaszewski, is recorded as acting Secretary of Provincial Public Prosecutor's Office in 1901, later as secretary to Investigating Judge in Telsze in 1908.

• 1902: Maria Rymaszewska (Rymarewska?) was a school teacher in Skoreczen (Skorechen) in 1902.

• 1903: Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Wawrzyniec, is recorded as working in the Financial Office of the Bielski administrative district.

• Konstanty Rymaszewski, the son of Fabian Rymaszewski, was a Captain in the 11th Artillery Brigade in Dubno (record dated 1909).
  
• Walerian Rymaszewski, the son of August Rymaszewski, was a Captain in the Tsar Alexander's Army Academy in Moscow. Next record, dated 1909, gives Walerian Rymaszewski (the son of August) as a Captain in the Guards of the Finnish Regiment (Note: Part of Finland was under Russian imperial rule).
  
• Dymitry Rymaszewski, the son of Aleksander Rymaszewski, was a Second Lieutenant in the Guards of the Grenadiers Regiment (record dated 1909).
  
• Seweryn Rymaszewski, the son of Michal Rymaszewski, was a Lieutenant in the 28th Polocki regiment (7th Infantry Division) in Petrokov - Berezowka (record dated 1909)
  
• Konstanty Rymaszewski, the other son of Michal Rymaszewski (brother of Seweryn above), was a Second Lieutenant in the 17th Eastern Siberian Rifle Regiment (5th Division) in Radom (record dated 1909).

• 1905: Maria Rymaszewska (of catholic religion) owned a 2 storey masonery house in Bazarnaya square in the Old town, Nieswiez (paid tax 4950 rubles).
  
• 1905: Jesmerika(?) Rymaszewska (of catholic religion) owned a wooden house in Slavkovskaya Street, New town, Nieswiez (paid tax 400 rubles).
  
• 1905: Józefa Rymaszewska (of catholic religion) owned a wooden house in Kladbistyenskaya Street, Old town, Nieswiez (no tax).
  
• 1905: Wincenty (Vikyentiy) Rymaszewski (of catholic religion) owned a wooden house in Zaghumiennaya Street, New Town, Nieswiez (tax 100).
  
• 1905: Teofilja Rymaszewska (catholic religion) owned a 4 hectare plot of land near town Nieswiez (free of taxation) .

• Wiktor Rimaszewski, the son of Hippolit (Victor Ippolitovich), homeowner and appartment leaser in Minsk Uyezd (paying bussiness tax), 1906 Duma list no. 334, also at no. 972.
• Aleksander (Alexandr) Rymaszewski, the son of Josip (Jozef ?) (Osipovich), state public servant (or retired), 1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 970.
• Andrzej (Andrey) Rymaszewski, the son of Simon? (Semenovich), state public servant (or retired), 1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 971.
• Edward (Eduard) Rymaszewski, 1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 978.
• Józef (Josif) Rymaszewski, the son of Florian, homeowner and appartment leaser, 1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 974.
• Józef Rymaszewski, retired state employee,1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 975.
• Joachim Rymaszewski, the son of Michal (Mikhailovich), state employee or retired,1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 979.
• Mikolaj (Nikolay) Rymaszewski, the son of Jan (Ivanovich), state public servant or retired,1906 Minsk Uyezd Duma list no. 977.

• Antoni (Anton) Rymaszewski, resident of Nieswiez (Nesvizh), paid apartment tax, listed on 1907 Sluck Uyezd Duma List no. 2337
• Edward (Eduard) Rymaszewski, resident of Nieswiez (Nesvizh), paid apartment tax, listed on 1907 Sluck Uyezd Duma List no. 2339
• Wincenty (Vikenti) Rymaszewski, resident of Nieswiez (Nesvizh), listed on 1907 Sluck Uyezd Duma List no. 2333
• Wladyslaw Pawel (Vladislav Pavel) Rimaszewski (Rimashevski) of Polish nationality, resident of Sluck, paid apartment tax, Sluck Uyezd Duma List no. 1463.

• Bronislawa Rymaszewska was born in Minsk in 1877. She married Wincenty Lukaszewicz who was born in 1867. Their son, Aleksander Lukaszewicz emigrated to Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. (From: www.RootsWeb.com - 13 October 2000)
  
• 1906: Dominik Rymaszewski (Domenik Rymashevskiy), the son of Józef (Iosifovich), is listed on the 1906 Novogrudok Uyezd (Nowogródek district) Duma list No. 2492.
  
• 1907: Pawel Rymaszewski is listed on the 1907 Mozyr Uyezd Duma list. Record no. 984.
  
• 1907: Florian Rymaszewski is listed on the 1907 Mozyr Uyezd Duma list. Record no. 990.
  
• 1908: Emilia Rymaszewska, widow, was living in Kraków. From Kraków Address Book dated 1908. [MSR-390]
  
• 1908: Wladyslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Ferdynand, was a medical doctor in Telechany (Telekhany), Pinsk administrative district, in 1908. From Russian "Commemorative book of Minsk province", published in Minsk 1908. [MSR-751]
  
• 1908-1915: Marian Rymaszewski, the son of Michal, was a medical doctor in Klewan, 1915, and court councillor in 1908, 1913. From Russian "Commemorative books of Volynskaya province", published in Zhytomir (Zytomierz) 1908-15. [MSR-725]

• 1910: Antoni I. Rymaszewski held a position in Forestry in Podbrody, administrative district of Swieciany. From Russian "Commemorative book of Wilno province" in 1910. [MSR-740]
  
• 1910: Antoni Rymaszewski, the son of Jan Rymaszewski, held a position of Secretary of the Police Headquarters of Grodno district in 1910. From Russian "Commemorative book of Grodno province" [MSR-733]
  
• 1914: Franciszek Rymaszewski was a Director of the Bank Cooperative (Zw. Sp. Zarobk.) in Poznan, between 1914 - 24. [MSR-436]
  
• 1917 ?: Edward Rymaszewski. Corporal in the 1st Polish Eastern Corps (bat.11, P.Strz.). [MSR-24]

• Michal Rymaszewski, private (strzelec), Kowenski pulk strzelcow. Died on 29 January 1920 in Grodno.
  
• Seweryn Rymaszewski, lieutenant colonel (pplk.), Grodzienski pulk strzelcow. Died on 19 November 1920 in Maciejunce.
  

• 1917 - 1939: Eugeniusz Rymaszewski and Karol Rymaszewski, officers (urzednicy) of the Ministry of Education (Ministerstwo Wyznan i Oswiecenia Publicznego w W-wie). Their personal records are filed in the State Archives, 1917-1939, ref.nr. 2/14/0/5461 and 5462. From: www.aan.gov.pl
  
• 1920: N. Rymaszewski, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment in Grodno during the 1920 Polish - Soviet war. [MSR-506]
  
• 1920: N. Rymaszewski, a lieutenant in the 1st regiment of Ulani Krechowiecki during the 1920 Polish - Soviet war. Fought near Beresteczko.
  
• 1923: Romuald Remiesz - Rymaszewski. Born on 1 August 1878, lieutenant in the 78 Infantry Regiment in 1923 - 1924. [MSR-462]
  
• 1923: Wladyslaw Rymaszewski, born on 8 January 1878, medical doctor (in 1902). An officer in the army (9th Medical Battalion) in Poznan in 1923 - 24. [MSR-278]
  (Not to be confused with doctor Wladyslaw Jan Rymaszewski, born 15 November 1891, a Reserve army officer (colonel) who was murdered in Katyn).
  
• 1925: P. Rymaszewski, was a Paramedic ("Felczer") in a town Nieswiez in Poland near Baranowicze. An entry, dated 1925, in the municipal records (List of Merchants and Businesses: Nieswiez / Nowa Wies). Now in Belarus (Nesvizh, Niasviz). [from internet]
  
• 1926: Eugeniusz Rymaszewski, lecturer in the State College for boys and girls (Gimnazjum) in Lublin in 1926 [MSR-444]. From 1928 to 1939 Eugeniusz was teaching in the Polish Grammar School (Gimnazjum) in Gdansk. [from internet]
  
• 1928: Marja Rymaszewska, was a landowner in Darewo, Zabrodzie 109, between Baranowicze and Lachowicze.
  
• 1928: Eugeniusz Rymaszewski, was in Zakopane in 1928. [MSR-24]
• 1928: Bronislawa Rymaszewska, was in Mielzyn, Zakopane in 1928. [MSR-24]
  
• 1928: Jerzy Rymaszewski, worked as a medical doctor in Lubomla district. [AltaVista 2005. geocities.com]

• 1929: M. Rymaszewski - was an owner of a variety store (sundries) in a town Zaostrowiecze near Nieswiez in Poland in 1928, now in Belarus. An entry in the municipal records of Nieswiez (List of Merchants and Businesses: Slawkowo, Zaturia) [from internet]
  
• 1929 - 1937 : dr. K. Rymaszewski - was a well known medical doctor in Wilno. From: www.wilno.pl/naszczas/017
  
• 1930: Jadwiga Rymaszewska - Kozakiewicz, born in 1902, was a dental surgeon (dr.med) in Wilno in 1930. From "Official Register of Doctors, etc." [MSR-278]
  
• 1932: Jerzy Rymaszewski, author of "Muzyka a Sugestia", Warszawa. "Gospodarcza" Printing House, 1932. [from internet]
  
• 1935: Jan Rymaszewski, forestry engineer, thesis in 1935 re: primeval forest (puszcza) Kampinoska, publ. by SGGW. (www.kampinoski.pn.gov.pl)
  
• 1935 - 1938 : Wladyslaw Rymaszewski, was in charge of military "Sanatorium" in Zakopane (Koscielisko) from 1935 to 1938. [from internet]

• 1936 ?: Hipolit Rymaszewski. Minister for Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms. [MSR-24]
  
• 1939 ?: Wladyslaw Rymaszewski. Captain, medical doctor, Warszawa [MSR-24]

• 1939: Halina Rymaszewska, was in Warszawa in 1939. [MSR-24]
  
• 1939: Antoni Rymaszewski, was in Warszawa in 1939. [MSR-24]

• 1939: Henryk Rymaszewski, lieutenant, commander of Signals platoon in Army "Modlin" (13th Ulans Regiment) during the September 1939 war campaign. [MSR-378]

• 1939: Zbigniew Rymaszewski, second lieutenant, platoon commander, 1st Regiment of Krechowiecki Ulans, Suwalska Cavalry Brigade, during the September 1939 war campaign [MSR-167]

• 1939: N. Rymaszewski, doctor, Kamienna street, Poznan, 1939-1945 [MSR-278,276]

• Mirka Rymaszewska (married name Sacewicz) writes in her email no. 072 ( mirka44@vp.pl ) that she is the daughter of Edward Rymaszewski, and granddaughter of Franciszek Rymaszewski and Apolonia nee Radkiewicz. The parents of Franciszek were Konstanty Rymaszewski and Teofilia nee Modzelewska.
  Grandfather Franciszek Rymaszewski lived in Kaczanowicze near Nieswiez. He was an elected chair of village council and during the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 he was executed by firing by the KGB ( then NKVD). His wife Apolonia Rymaszewska was deported to Siberia with her two young sons. After the war in 1945, during the so called "repatriation", the family was settled in the West of Polish People's Republic in Miedzyrzecze.

The list of recipients of the Order of the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration for gallantry in the field, includes the names of:
    • Zbigniew Rymaszewski, (1939-45)
    • Dominik Rymaszewski , (4.5.1970)
    • Seweryn Rymaszewski, (1918 -1939), colonel

The order can be compared to British Victoria Cross, French Crois de Guerre or American Medal of Honor.

Rymaszewska Barbara, born 27.11.1878 in Russia, worked for the Polish Red Cross
Rymaszewska Izabela, born 1892 in Ukraine, awarded Medal of Independence
Rymaszewska-Szymanowska Janina, born 1902 or 1898, daughter of Boleslaw

Rymaszewski Adam that lived in Kaczanowszczyzna
Rymaszewski Aleksander, born 12.01.1898
Rymaszewski Antoni, born 15.01.1913
Rymaszewski Edward, corporal, awarded Cross of Merit (Krzyz Zaslugi)
Rymaszewski Eugeniusz, teacher, born 27.11.1884
Rymaszewski Eugeniusz, officer, born 27.11.1884
Rymaszewski Henryk, born 11.07.1908
Rymaszewski Jan, born 23.06.1894
Rymaszewski Jerzy-Marian, 11.09.1899
Rymaszewski Jerzy, born 24.4.1900 in Tyflis
Rymaszewski Kasper, born 19.01.1892
Rymaszewski Michal, lived in Pinsk (** father of Franek Rymaszewski, the author of this website)
Rymaszewski Piotr, medic, born 24.07.1882, lived in Nieswiez
Rymaszewski Romuald-Remierz, born 1.3.1894
Rymaszewski Seweryn, born 8.1.1882
Rymaszewski Seweryn, corporal, died in prewar times, lived in Grodno
Rymaszewski Seweryn, captain, born 1882
Rymaszewski Seweryn, awarded Virtuti Militari, colonel
Rymaszewski Stanislaw, in Polish Army since 19.12.1921, sergeant
Rymaszewski Wincenty, born 2.12.1900, son of Wincenty,
Rymaszewski Wincenty, private in Polish Army, awarded Krzyz Walecznych
Rymaszewski Wladyslaw, born 1.8.1878
Rymaszewski Wladyslaw, rotmistrz (Polish rank in cavalry), awarded Krzyz Walecznych
Rymaszewski Wladyslaw, doctor, born 15.11.1891 in Nieswiez, lived in Warsaw, Medal of Independence
Rymaszewski Wladyslaw, colonel, born 13.11.1891 in Nieswiez
Rymaszewski Zbigniew, lieutenant, son of Wladyslaw, born 13.06.1916
Rymaszewski Zbigniew Antoni, born 13.06.1916
Rymaszewski Zenon, born 16.7.1910
Rymaszewski Waclaw, born 9.8.1913

• Rymaszewska Antonina, married Wincenty Nicziperowicz, coat of arms Ostoja, and they lived in Cecylianów (Cecyliany), district Uzda. They had two children: Waclaw Nicziperowicz (born 1905) and Wanda Nicziperowicz (born 1918). Wincenty, Antonina's husband, was arrested by NKVD in February 1930, together with his brother Aleksander. They were kept in Minsk prison, where they were murdered in the spring of 1930 (probably in Kuropaty, the suburb of Minsk).
  Antonina was deported with her daughter Wanda (age12) and son Waclaw (age 25) via Kotlas to Archangelsk area, to Vyerkhnietoimski district, village Okhtama. They survived there for 8 years. Her son, Waclaw, was accused on 19 July 1938 by the NKVD of "contra-revolutionary activities" and was executed by firing on 25 September 1938. Wanda, aged 18, married another Polish exile from Uzda, Marian Kniszewski, and they eventually moved to Bolkhovo near Orel in 1944, where mother Antonina died.

• Rymaszewska Aleksandra, married Wladyslaw Chelmowski in Kleck (?). They had a daughter Filomena, born in 1920 in Zascianek Horynka. On 3 March 1941, Filomena Chelmowska, aged 21, married in Kleck, Stanislaw Zmijewski, the son of Ludwik Zmijewski and Feliksa Lewkowicz, aged 37, born in Zascianek Horynka.

• Rymaszewski Julian, the son of Antoni, was born on 15 December 1870 on an estate in Mikhailotsky Igumensky district, Minsk guberniya. As a young man he owned a landed property: Ugorino farmstead, near village Bulushevo in district Pukhovichi (Puchowicze), Minsk guberniya.
  He and his family were registered as of Polish nationality and of Roman-Catholic

  "The Kulaks are the enemy of the state". Joseph Stalin

  religion.
  
  In 1930 they were labeled by Communist ideology as Kulaks ("large, rich farmers"), therefore class enemies. Their property was confiscated and the whole family was deported in 1931 to hard labour in Sverdlovsk province (Ural mountains), Kosinski district, Sergeevski mine. They lived in the barracks in a mining penal colony and worked as wood-cutters at the Jukseevsky timber industry "sovkhoz".  
   In January 1938, Julian was now 67 years old, and his family were:   
      Wife - Magdalena (the daughter of "Faddey" = Thaddeus ?), age 65
      Son - Antoni, age 35
      Son - Julian, age 29
      Daughter - Juzefa (Józefa), age 22 (24?)
      Daughter - Antonina, age 16
    
  On New Year's Eve in 1937, Julian's eldest son Antoni (35) was arrested by Kosinski district NKVD, accused of causing fire to the barrack and forest ( fire to snow covered forest-taiga ? !). 5 days later, in January 1938, Julian, the father, was also arrested, accused of arson in the same fire.
  Julian Rymaszewski, the father, died in prison, in town Perm, after being there for 12 months.
  Antoni was eventually sentenced to 4 years imprisonment, followed by loss of all rights for 3 years.

• Rimaszewski Waclaw, the son of Franciszek, was born in November 1882 at Swidycze (Svidichi),  Slobodo-luchanski area, Konyl (Kopyl?) district, Minsk region. After Bolshevik revolution  the whole province was named Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  Waclaw and his family were registered as of Polish nationality and of Roman-Catholic

  1930 "Keep Kulaks out of collective farms !"

  religion.
  
  In 1930 they were marked by Communist authorities as class enemies by being Kulaks ("large farmers"). Their land property was confiscated and the whole family was deported to hard labour to Ural mountains area, near Kochevo and Perm. They worked as unskilled labourers on grain farming and lived at Ust-Smolva labour-village.

  On 16 December 1937, Waclaw was now 55 years old, and his family were:
     Wife - Marja (Maryia), the daughter of Wincenty (Vintsent),   age 42
     Daughter - Marja (Maryia), age 22, (born in 1915)
     Son - Waclaw (Vatslav), age 9
     Daughter - Wanda (Vanda), age 7
     Son - Edward, age 2
     He also had a brother - Josef (the son of Franciszek), aged then 69, who emigrated to the USA before the bolshevik revolution.
  
  On 16 December 1937, Waclaw was arrested by the Kochevo area NKVD. He was accused of espionage. What kind of spying could he do, slaving with his family in a remote region of USSR ?
  Well, just because he had a brother living in the USA, in the capitalist (i.e. an enemy) country and exchanged an occasional letter with him, where he may have complained about his hard life, it was sufficient reason to accuse him of criticizing Soviet state, treason to socialism etc., and espionage. By decision of the NKVD "Court of Three" he was sentenced to death and was executed by firing on 2 March 1938, leaving wife and young family in the labour-village.
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During the Soviet occupation lasting 21 months (from Soviet attack on Poland to Hitler's betrayal of his Soviet ally, and his invasion of the USSR itself on 22 June 1941), hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens were arrested in eastern Poland and imprisoned by Soviet Secret Police. Their homes and land properties were confiscated.

The following Rymaszewskis in the above category are listed below. They were found among the very incomplete records of KARTA, the Polish Information Center on the Repression of Polish citizens in the Soviet Union:

• Adam Rymaszewski, the son of Stanislaw, born in 1905, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192345)
• Adam Rymaszewski, the son of Julian, born in 1892, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217541)
• Adolf Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, born in 1919, arrested in (Karta id. 82879)
• Aleksander Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, born in 1900, arrested (Karta id. 48404)
• Aleksander Rymaszewski, the son of Aleksander, born in 1911, arrested (Karta id. 57514, 160225)
• Aleksander Rymaszewski, the son of Aleksander, born in 1911, arrested in Bel (Karta id. 244360)
• Anatol Rymaszewski, the son of Antoni, born in 1910, sent to Vorkuta-2 gulag (Karta id. 147538)
• Anna Rymaszewska, the daughter of Konstanty, born in 1930, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192326)
• Anna Rymaszewska, the daughter of Pawel, born in 1899, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192325)
• Antoni Rymaszewski, the son of Romuald, born in 1902, executed in Kozielsk (Karta id. 3286)
• Antoni Rymaszewski, the son of Piotr, born in 1913, executed in Starobielsk (Karta id. 7208)
• Antoni Rymaszewski, the son of Józef, born in 1900, deported from Nieswiez, Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192346)
  
  
• Barbara Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bogdan, born in 1940, deported Vologoda district (Karta id. 217540)
• Bernarda Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1935, deported Vologoda district (Karta id. 217538)
• Bogdan Rymaszewski, the son of Boleslaw, born in 1927, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192347)Bogdan Rymaszewski, the son of Pawel, born in 1904, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217542)
• Boleslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Stanislaw, born in 1897, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192348)
• Czeslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Hipolit, born in 1912, arrested in (Karta id. 55423)
• Czeslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Boleslaw, born in 1897, state forest ranger, executed in prison in 1944-45? (Karta id. - not listed)
• Danuta Rymaszewska, the daughter of Stanislaw, born in 1936, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192327)
• Danuta Rymaszewska, the daughter of Franciszek, born in 1936, deported from Brest district (Karta id. 226462)
• Dominik Rymaszewski, the son of Dominik, born in 1904, arrested in (Karta id. 85480)
  
  
• Edward Rymaszewski, the son of Michal, born in 1918, post office employee, sent to Vorkuta gulag (Karta id. 50750)
• Edward Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, born in 1925, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217543)
• Elzbieta Rymaszewska, the daughter of Waclaw, born in 1939, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192328)
• Emilia Rymaszewska, the daughter of Franciszek, born in 1902, deported Vologoda district (Karta id. 217534)
• Eugeniusz Rymaszewski, the son of Franciszek, born in 1935, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192349)
• Eugeniusz Rymaszewski, the son of Bogdan, born in 1925, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217544)
• Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Jan, born in 1888, executed in Ostaszkow (Karta id. 12925)
• Franciszek Rymaszewski, the son of Florian, born in 1905, arrested Bel (Karta id. 85313)
• Franciszka Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1934, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192329)
• Helena Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1873, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192330)
• Idalia Rymaszewska, the daughter of Jozef, born in 1913, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192331)
  
  
• Jadwiga Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1929, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192332)
• Jadwiga Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bogdan, born in 1927, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217536)
• Jan Rymaszewski, the son of Piotr, born in 1914, arrested in (Karta id. 53456, 160226)
• Jan Rymaszewski, the son of Wincenty, born in 1907, deported from Brest district (Karta id. 231134)
• Jan Rymaszewski, the son of Piotr, born in 1914, arrested in Bel. (Karta id. 244361)
• Janina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1927, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192333)
• Janina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Franciszek, born in 1933, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192334)
• Janina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Jozef, born in 1911, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192335)
• Janina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bogdan, born in 1923, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217535)
• Jozef Rymaszewski, the son of Waclaw, born in 1937, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192350)
• Jozef Rymaszewski, the son of Jan, born in 1940, deported from Brest district (Karta id. 227499)
• Jozefa Rymaszewska, the daughter of Wincenty, born in 1892, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217533)
  
  
• Kasper Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, born in 1892, executed in Starobielsk (Karta id. 7209)
• Konstanty Rymaszewski, the son of Ignacy, born in 1899, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192351)
• Leonarda Rymaszewska, the daughter of Jozef, born in 1911, deported from Brest district (Karta id. 228237)
• Lucja Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bogdan, born in 1930, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217537)
• Maria Rymaszewska, the daughter of Adam, born in 1931, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192336)
• Maria Rymaszewska, the daughter of Franciszek, born in 1913, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192337)
• Maria Rymaszewska, the daughter of Klemens, born in 1904, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192338)
• Michal Rymaszewski, the son of Aleksander, born in 1894, public servant, executed in Minsk prison in 1940-41?(Karta id. - not listed)
• Michalina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Jan, born in 1870, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192339)
• Mieczyslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Czeslaw, born in 1921, sent to Vorkuta gulag (Karta id. - not listed. His memoirs are published on my site. It shows how incompenent Karta is.)
• Regina Rymaszewska, the daughter of Boleslaw, born in 1935, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192340)
  
  
• Stanislaw Rymaszewski, the son of Boleslaw, born in 1922, arrested in Bel. (Karta id. 67424, 244362)
• Stanislaw Rymaszewski, the son of Boleslaw, born in 1928, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192352)
• Stanislaw Rymaszewski, the son of Wincenty, born in 1870, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192353)
• Stanislawa Rymaszewska, the daughter of Antoni (Adam?), born in 1908 (1910?), deported from Nieswiez, Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192341)
• Stanislawa Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bronislaw, born in 1909, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192342
• Teresa Rymaszewska, the daughter of Franciszek, born in 1938, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192343)
• Teresa Rymaszewska, the daughter of Bogdan, born in 1935, deported to Vologoda district (Karta id. 217539)
  
  
• Waclaw Rymaszewski, the son of Wincenty, born in 1910, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192354)
• Wanda Rymaszewska, the daughter of Antoni, born in 1929, deported from Nieswiez, Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192344)
• Wienczeslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Boleslaw, born 1897, POW, shot (Karta id.30209)
• Wincenty Rymaszewski, the son of Adam, born in 1894, arrested in Bel. (Karta id. 85488)
• Wincenty Rymaszewski, the son of Waclaw, born in 1940, deported from Baranowicze district (Karta id. 192355)
• Wladyslaw Rymaszewski, the son of Antoni, born in 1891, executed in Starobielsk (Karta id. 7210)
• Zenon Rymaszewski, the son of Jan, born in 1910, executed in Kozielsk (Karta id. 3287)
• Zygmunt Rymaszewski, the son of Michal, born in 1920, arrested in Pinsk, and sent to Vorkutlag gulag.