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Arthur and Roma Lubinski, 1970s |
Arthur Lubinski was my grandfather. He was a well-known petroleum engineer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States, but before that, he was a maquisard, fighting to rid France of the Nazis.
Grandpa was born 30 March 1910 in Antwerp, Belgium, the son of two Polish-born naturalized Belgian citizens. His parents took him to Poland to visit family in the summer of 1914, and when WWI broke out, they were stranded in there for thirteen years.
My grandfather fell in love with my grandmother when they were teenagers in Poland. After he went back to Belgium in 1927, they continued their relationship via letters and the occasional visit. Eventually, my grandmother moved to Belgium to attend the university (unusual for the time - most women did not pursue higher education). They married in 1935.
In 1939, Grandma Roma fell pregnant with my Aunt Lilly, who was born May 8, 1940, two days before the Nazis invaded Western Europe. These articles contain my research into how they escaped the Nazis, hid in France for 5 years, joined the resistance, and eventually how they wound up in America.
Some of the articles are early drafts of chapters I wrote for the book. I've marked those with "(chapter)." I've since revised them, and the revisions are not reflected here. In some cases I had to change them significantly due to discovering new information about what happened after I wrote it.
Here is a list of my articles about my grandparents:
- 1920s - 1940s: The photographs mentioned in Biscuit
- 1930: My Grandparents Party on New Year's Eve
- 1930: New Year's Eve at the Chantilly Jazz Club at the Hotel Terminus in Antwerp
- 1935-1941: Arthur Turns Coal into Liquid Fuel
- Summer 1937: Discovering My Grandparents Delayed Their Honeymoon
- 1940s: WW2 Theme - Abrasives as a Sabotage Technique
- Spring 1940: So ... who was "Foch's Pupil"?
- May, 1940: The Roadblock (chapter)
- May 1940: My grandparent's apartment and super cool modern technology
- 1940: My grandfather's probable employer
- May 10, 1940: Arthur visits his wife and newborn daughter during an invasion
- May 1940: Researching, Making Connections Across Time and Distance (and a Huge THANK YOU!!)
- 1940: In which Arthur smuggles a letter to America
- Fall 1941: Hints of Deception and Covering Up an Escape
- 1941: Hiding from Nazi Soldiers in a Labyrinth Under a French Convent
- 1941: Made-up details that turned out to be actually true
- Winters 1941-1943: Using a Vichy Journal, Possibly In Order to Avoid Suspicion
- November 11, 1942: Arthur watches for Nazi Troop movements (chapter)
- 1943: International Red Cross: An 80-Year-Old Family Message
- February 1944: Arthur becomes a Maquis radio operator (chapter)
- 1944: My grandfather's FFI papers
- 1944: Arthur learns to use a submachine gun (chapter)
- May 1944: Arthur gets an armband, and blows up a bridge (deleted chapter)
- Summer 1944: My grandfather appears in someone else's stories
- Summer 1944: Arthur summarizes the news for his Maquis unit (variations on a theme)
- June 1944: Arthur and Michel and the battle of La Rochette (variations on a theme)
- June 1944: Arthur and the sharpshooter that killed a Kübelwagon (variations on a theme)
- June 1944: Arthur escapes up a mountain (variations on a theme)
- July 1944: A Fellow Maquisard Murders Arthur's Landlady (chapter)
- July 1944: The Murder of My Grandfather's Landlady (variations on a theme)
- July 1944: Operation Cadillac and the Daylight Airdrops (variations on a theme)
- July 1944: Arthur witnesses the destruction of an Airfield (variations on a theme)
- August 1944: Arthur meets his first American (chapter)
- August 1944: The American Conscientious Objector, Part 1: Truth is Stranger than Fiction
- August 1944: The American Conscientious Objector, Part 2
- August 1944: The American Conscientious Objector, Part 3
- August 1944: The American Conscientious Objector, Part 4: Seismic Shifts
- August 1944: Arthur and Michel feel explosions from 170 miles away (variations on a theme)
- August 1944: Death of the maquis mules (variations on a theme)
- August 1944: Downed American airmen join the Maquis (variations on a theme)
- August 1944: Arthur and Michel meet the American Army (variations on a theme)
- August 1944: Nearly Liberated: A Woman's Experience (chapter)
- December 1945: Arthur's second daughter is born (chapter)
- May 1946: My grandparent's first car? - a Fiat Simca 5
- 1952: Arthur's American Girl
- 1960s: Anna Marly, My Grandparents, and the Tulsa Chapter of the Alliance Française
- Six Decades of Bickering
- 1947-1996: The Oilman
- Four Generations of Writers
My Uncle Paul's stories intertwine with my grandparents:
Here is a list of other articles of mine that are related:
- 1940-1947: Vintage map of France and playing with stickers
- 1940s: Dealing with Foreign Languages, Specifically French and Polish
- Français vs English: Word choice when writing in English, but in a French setting
- 1940s: The Book Title is: Biscuit
- 1940s: Well, I have a book cover (sort of)
- Chapters names, dates, quotes: Arranging stuff on the page
- 1940s: I have a copies of my manuscript
- 1944: Transcribing and translating an old handwritten letter
- 1944-2024: Eighty Years of Grandpa's Armband
- Arthur Lubinski OTC Best Paper Award - a yearly engineering award named for my grandfather. I've seen the award called "a Lubinski." As in, "he has won a Lubinski."
- Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Arthur Lubinski
- National Academies Press Memorial Tribute - Arthur Lubinski
- Roma Lubinski Obituary (paywall)
- Jake Neufeld Obituary (Grandma's brother) - contains some bizarre mistakes. Like the three grandchildren are Paul, Adam, and Margot (not Paul Adam Neufeld and his wife Margot). And the sister who died in the Holocaust was named Lola (Rachel was actually my grandmother Roma's Hebrew name, though she never used it. Her legal name was Romana but no one ever called her anything but Roma).
- Bendy Tubes, A Brief Historical Sketch - a neat little article that shows that people are still discussing my grandfather's work more than 65 years later.
- Buckling in Tubing Wells - an engineering paper my grandfather wrote in 1958
- Maximum Permissible Dog-legs in Rotary Bore Holes - an engineering paper my grandfather wrote in 1961.
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