Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 49, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 November 1948 — Kic Family Settles In Their New Home [ARTICLE]

Kic Family Settles In Their New Home

Five really lovable people viewed with joy yesterday their new home in Jasper County after eight years of fear, compulsory work, delay and doubt. Stanislaus Kic, his wife Helena, and their three sons, Edward, Stanislaus and Eugenius were the first family #f European Displaced Persons to reach their home in northwestern Indiana. The husband, who is 39 and a carpenter, will work on the William Gehring

farms at Newland. The Kic family lived in the town of Obenize in western Poland until the spring of 1940. At that time Russia officials ordered them to Sibera. Instead, traveling on foot by night and hiding by day, Stanislaus and Helena fled with four-year-old Edward into Germany where they spent the war in a German work camp. The family with sons aged twelve, eight and five, arrived in New York City last Saturday night on the transport General Black. They arrived in Rensselaer late Monday night. They are extremely pleased with America

and the cooperation that is being shown them getting settled in their new home. The Kic family comes to Jasper County through the efforts of the Rev. J. A. Hiller, professor at St. Joseph’s College and director of displaced persons’ resettlement for the Lafayette diocese which includes 20 northwestern Indiana counties. Processing and transfer were handled by the War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Council, one of several agencies engaged in this work.