Looking for Alesia Filimonova: Mogilev – Toruń, 1992

In 1992 a girl from a children's home in Mogilev spent the summer and the Christmas holidays with a Polish family in Toruń. More than thirty years later, that family would like to know how she is.

Iwona from Toruń, Poland, is looking for Alesia Filimonova. Today Alesia should be about 40 years old. In 1992 she lived in a children's home in Mogilev.

What Iwona remembers

That year the city of Toruń organised holidays for children from Belarus in Polish families. Alesia, then a little girl, spent several weeks of the summer with Iwona's family and returned to Mogilev with the other children.

In December 1992 Iwona, then a young woman, travelled with another Polish family to the children's home in Mogilev to bring a group of children to Poland for Christmas. Alesia again spent several weeks with her family and then went back to Belarus.

Since then the two families have had no contact. Iwona writes that she would simply like to find Alesia and ask how she is doing.

How you can help

Any of these details may help:

• you lived or worked in a children's home in Mogilev in the early 1990s and remember Alesia;
• you also travelled to Toruń as a child in 1992 and remember the group;
• you organised or accompanied these trips on the Polish or Belarusian side;
• you know Alesia Filimonova today, perhaps under a married name.

Spellings to search for

The name may appear differently in documents and social networks:

• Alesia, Alesya, Alesja, Lesia, Olesya;
• Filimonova, Filimonowa (Polish);
• Алеся Филимонова (Russian), Алеся Філімонава (Belarusian).

How to respond

If you know anything, or if you are Alesia, please write to hello@mogilevroots.com. We will pass your message to Iwona and will not publish your name or contact details.