Anna Zazulak Aitken

ByKelly Mills

SIBERIAN EXILES CROSS by Kelly Mills and Emma Conroy Our nana, Anna Aitken (nee Zazulak), one of the Polish children of Pahiatua and one of five sisters, came to New Zealand in 1944 and made New Zealand her home. Sadly, she had passed away before the Siberian Cross was made available and therefore could not…

Housekeeping in Poland

ByBarbara Scrivens

(from the Sun newspaper in Auckland, 27 July 1927, author unnamed.) A Polish woman is more than a cook. She is a born connoisseur of good foods, a “gastronome” in the truest sense of the word. If she lives in the country, she scorns shops and stores—they are good for providing raw materials only. The…