Jan Gardocki (1920 - 1992)

Born 12 Jul 1920 in Świdry Awissa, Grajewo, Białystok, Poland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Squillaciote) Squillacioti — married 6 Aug 1955 (to 2 Jan 1957) in Chicago, Illinois

Husband of Janina (Malissa) Gardocki — married after 1957 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1992 at age 72 in Chicago, Illinois

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Biography

• Spouse and informant on Cook County death record were Janina Malissa and Janina Gardocki. I believe these individuals are the same person or Janina Gardocki could be the daughter of Jan Gardocki and Janina Malissa.

• Jadwiga Naumowicz and Jan Gardocki were unmarried parents of Living Szacko (Jayme) from 1947-1948.

Relocated from American/German DP camp on the USAT ship "General H.M. Black". Was sponsored by Boleslaus Mschichowski and his aunt Pelagia (Rogowska) Mscichowski in Vancouver, WA. Immediately settled Rockford, Illinois with his uncle Dominik Rowgoski's family. He spent less than a year in Rockford and moved to Chicago in 1949. He worked in a knitting mill and several meat packing facilities for the next ten years. He married Elizabeth Squillacioti of Chicago, IL. in 1955 and divorced in 1957. Petitioned for naturalization in 1956. No record of additional children but was associated with or married to Janina (Malissa) Gardocki until his death in 1992.

Known family in the USA since the 1800s--Gardcoki families in the Pennsylvania mining towns. Pelagia Rogowska of Vancouver, WA. She was his aunt and mother's closest sister. Dominik Rogowski--uncle and his wife Mary Kuczynski who lived in the USA at time of immigration in 1948.^[1]

• Halina Florentyna Gardocka Olsson--Sister of Jan who settled and married in Sweden after WWII.

Sources

1. ↑ Official INS information obtain from A and C immigration and naturalization petition.

See also:

• "Illinois, Northern District (Eastern Division), Naturalization Index, 1926-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-31560-11652-62?cc=2040533 : accessed 22 February 2016), Garcia, Lauro-Gaszynski, Pauline Eva > image 520 of 1741; National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago.

• "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV92-CHTJ : accessed 22 February 2016), John Gardocki, 08 Sep 1992; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .

• "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP8-63DW : accessed 22 April 2016), Jan Gardocki, ; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP8-6SF8 : accessed 22 April 2016), Jan Gardocki, 1948; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Arolsen Archives, Digital Archive; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Lists of Persecutees 2.1.1.1; Series: 2.1.1.1

Source Information Ancestry.com. Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.

Original data: Arolsen Archives. Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939-1947). Bad Arolsen, Germany. 2.1.1.1 American Zone; Bavaria Hesse; 2.1.1.2 American Zone: Bavaria, Wurttemberg-Baden, Bremen; 2.1.1.3 American Zone; Bavaria, Hesse (Children).

Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4509506