This was a small fraction of the approximately 1.7 million Polish citizens who had been arrested by the Soviets at the beginning of the war. For any other comments, please Contact Us. Katz is quite right to recall that the Red Army, three and a half years later, liberated Auschwitz. Not finding any arms, the soldiers then gave us a very short time to pack what we could, arrested the whole family, put us on their sleighs and took us to the nearest railway station. Polish evacuees had to travel by train to Krasnovodsk, where they took a ship across the Caspian Sea to Iran. The Soviets had ceased to recognise the Polish state at the start of the invasion. The subscriptions of this blog can only be accessed by its author. After the hell that we survived, Tehran was a different world. One of the administrators lived in a building that also had a community centre where films were shown. In Northern Rhodesia, 245 evacuees were accepted for permanent residence. I was always. NKVD agents issued Soviet passports to Poles in February-May 1943. The last camp that was built in Northern Rhodesia at Abercorn (today's Mbala, Zambia). Some members of the Ukrainian population welcomed the unification with Soviet Ukraine. Yes, even me a child of under 5 years old. There was one circular cast iron stove in the middle, which did not supply anywhere near the required degree of warmth. Las cookies son pequeos archivos de texto que los sitios web pueden utilizar para hacer que la experiencia del usuario sea ms eficiente. According to the Soviet law, all residents of the annexed area, dubbed by the Soviets as citizens of former Poland,[33] automatically acquired Soviet citizenship. There we boarded a ship where we were exposed to more appalling conditions. There were only four toilet facilities on board, so with people and children suffering from dysentery and other stomach disorders, it simply was impossible for everybody to avail themselves of toilet facilities. Snyder also recalled what made the Holocaust possible at the hands of the Nazis: "In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Moscow reversed its alliances. Este sitio web utiliza cookies para mejorar su experiencia. The formerly sovereign Lithuania was moved into the Soviet sphere of influence and absorbed into the USSR as the brand new Lithuanian SSR among the Soviet republics. There were sports teams, a choir and activities groups. In 1989, the Soviet Union apologized for its crimes against Poland. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the The over-riding feeling was that of perpetual hunger and fear. In August 1942, two schools were created, for younger (aged 8-15) and older scouts. The author of this blog is not responsible for the use and purposes that Feedburner gives the data provided. In Ahvaz, "Camp Polonia" was one of the main exit centers for Poles leaving Iran, and the last Ahvaz camp closed in 1945. The housing was primitive: dwellings made of clay, with roofs made of grass and banana leaves. It must be said, that ordinary Russians were, on the whole, friendly and very sympathetic to our plight, but they had to be very discreet about it. [28], Subsequently, all institutions of the dismantled Polish state were closed down and reopened under the Soviet-appointed supervisors. However, in 2020, Russian President Valdimir Putin went as far as blaming Poland for starting World War II. [30] According to Norman Davies,[31] almost half had died by the time the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement had been signed in 1941. However, in October 1946, the Secretary of State in London pronounced that refugees who could get a job in the area for at least 6 months, or had a sum of money sufficient to sustain themselves, could stay. On August 9, 1942, a second evacuation began, which lasted until September 1. Las cookies de marketing se utilizan para rastrear a los visitantes a travs de las webs. Click here to login. My mother, elder brother and sister were made to work on the surface of the mines, and my brother Gustaf and I, being the youngest two, were forced to attend Russian school, where indoctrination procedure was put in hand. The number and placement of Polish citizens deported in February and June 1940. Once you have entered your email in this box and press the "Click to subscribe" black button, you will receive a confirmation email in your mailbox to activate your subscription. [49], Simultaneously Soviet authorities tried to remove traces of Polish history in the area by eliminating much of what had connections to the Polish state or even Polish culture in general. Unauthorised Villagers followed us a long way, everybody crying bitterly as we looked back and wondered whether we would ever see our village and house again. There, all were divided into several groups and began their education. As I have already said, my father was made to work in mines, mining mainly malachite where, on one occasion, he sustained a bad accident. They were going from Kigoma to Dar es Salaam and from there by ship to the United Kingdom, where their next of kinoften husbands and sons who had been fighting in the warwere getting courses and training for civilian jobs. To understand why my family, the only one from the whole village, were arrested, I must go back to the year l918-20 when, after the First World War, Poland regained its independence after some 123 years of being partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria. [28] Those refugees who opted out were threatened with repatriation to German-controlled territories of Poland. My lungs were also affected, a condition which has dogged me all my life. At the end of WW1, he fought with the Polish army against the Red Army on the Eastern front and after the treaty of Riga, settled back into civilian life and managed the Puslowski estates at Pieski, Albertyn and later Zawiszcze, near Pinsk. My father, after joining the Polish Army in Russia, was shipped round South Africa to Dalkeith in Scotland, where the 1st Polish Armoured Division was formed under General Maczek, and fought in the Continental campaign. They immediately set about The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880 pp.151-175 Andrew A. Gentes Four thousand Poles were sentenced to the penal labor category of Siberian exile. [60] The events of the late 1940s amounted to a full-scale civil war according to some historians, especially in the eastern and central parts of the country (see: the Cursed soldiers). Between 1944 and 1946, thousands of Polish independence fighters actively opposed the new communist regime, attacking country offices of NKVD, SMERSH and the Polish communist secret service (UB). 'Za pierwszego Sovieta'. Cedar, MI 49621-5106. Soviet authorities implemented a political regime similar to a police state,[51][52][53][54] based on terror. buses unable to take a bend simply rolled into the ravine below. My father, brother Alfons and sister joined the newly forming military units and my mother was enlisted into womens auxiliary force. In the first stage, more than 30,000 military personnel and about 11,000 children left Krasnovodsk (Turkmen SSR, present-day Turkmenistan) by sea for Bandar Pahlavi. [9][10] An estimated 150,000 Polish citizens were killed by Soviet repressions. Nevertheless, red and common disentery raged. My brother Alfons also became a soldier in the 2nd Corps and fought in the North African campaign, and then the Italian campaign, taking part in the assault on Monte Cassino. Polish and Jewish citizens may at first have preferred a Soviet regime to a German one,[40] but the Soviets soon proved they were also hostile and destructive towards the Polish citizens. [27] The prisons soon got severely overcrowded, with all detainees accused of anti-Soviet activities. Classes began on September 1, 1942. [56] Pre-war Poland was portrayed as a capitalist state based on exploitation of the working people and ethnic minorities. [4] Among those who remained in the Soviet Union, about 150,000 Poles perished before the end of the war. Exiled to Siberia. To say that hygienic conditions of our living quarters were less than primitive is to make a gross overstatement. Around 55% of the deportees to Siberia and Soviet Central Asia were Polish women. In 1940 and the first half of 1941, the Soviets deported a total of more than 1,200,000 Poles in four waves of mass deportations from the Soviet-occupied Polish territories. Las cookies de anlisis ayudan a los propietarios de las webs a comprender cmo interactan los visitantes con las webs recopilando y facilitando informacin de forma annima. I remember my father was so starlted that he dropped the loaf of bread he was slicing. All Polish parties and organizations were disbanded. On one occasion when there was actually fire burning in the cast iron stove, the train moved off with such a sudden jerk, that I, standing next to it, put my hand on the hot pipe leading into the roof of the truck to steady myself, badly burning my hand. [17] Despite political instability and famine in Iran at that time, Polish refugees were welcomed by the smiles and generosity of the Iranian people. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II, in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Pact against Poland, the Soviet Union acquired more than half of the territory of the Second Polish Republic or about 201,000 square kilometres (78,000sqmi) inhabited by more than 13,200,000 people. The chairs of Marxism-Leninism, and Dialectical and Historical Materialism, aimed at strengthening Soviet ideology, were opened as well. The following year, between 40,000 and 50,000 people - mostly from Upper Silesia - were deported to forced labor camps.[38]. About one third of the civilians were children. [14] Their enthusiasm however faded with time as it became clear that the Soviet repressions were aimed at all peoples equally.[15]. Two letters, one from Berlin and another from Vienna, are mentioned in the February 1940 correspondence from Yevgeny Chekmenyov, of Moscows Department of Resettlement, to Viatcheslav Molotov, then foreign minister and head of the Soviet government. Had these Jews remained in Poland rather than suffering and dying on the steppe or in the gulag, would Jewish resistance to the Germans have been more significant? This book is a collection of individual stories written by survivors of the Polish genocide during the Second World War. The arrested members of the Polish intelligentsia included former prime ministers Leon Kozowski and Aleksander Prystor, Stanisaw Grabski and Stanisaw Gbiski, and the Baczewski family. 9539 Joseph Campau The Ukrainians had failed to achieve independence in 1919 when their attempt at self-determination was crushed during the PolishSoviet and Polish-Ukrainian Wars. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this sites owner is strictly prohibited. Political Migrations on Polish Territories (19391950). Sanitary conditions again were almost non-existent. As a result of the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland (as agreed by the Nazis and Soviets in their However, this was fraught with danger of being left behind. () The Soviet-imposed myth about "Communist heroes of resistance" enabled them for decades to avoid the painful questions faced long ago by other Western countries." The resultant stench was horrendous. [28] The wave of arrests and mock convictions contributed to the forced resettlement of large categories of people ("kulaks", Polish civil servants, forest workers, university professors, "osadniks") to the Gulag labour camps and exile settlements in remote areas of the Soviet Union. Tehran was a gate, through which we were sent, in groups, to different parts of the world. [29][47] No later than several weeks after the last Polish units surrendered, on October 22, 1939, the Soviets organized staged elections to the Moscow-controlled Supreme Soviets (legislative body) of Western Byelorussia and Western Ukraine. The Red Army had sown confusion among the locals by claiming that they were arriving to save Poland from the Nazis. Don't miss the news and content that interest you. Lww University and many other schools were reopened soon, but they were to operate as Soviet institutions rather than continue their former legacy. It has been seventy years since as many as 2 million Poles were deported against their will to some of the most inhospitable regions in the world: Siberia, Kazakhstan, and parts of Soviet After the Polish Army had left the Soviet Union, the attitude of the Soviets towards the remaining Poles worsened. During those three weeks of meandering through Russia, it was well nigh impossible to have a proper wash. Soviet officials openly incited mobs to conduct killings and robberies (19391945). Among people who stayed there was Bogdan Czaykowski. referenced. Google Universal Analytics long-time unique user tracking identifier. Find out how you can use this. A silenced history: the communist repression against Poles who fought Nazism, The handing over of Jews by the Soviet NKVD to the Gestapo. News spread like wildfire through the village, and almost everybody gathered outside our house. Feature photo: German and Soviet soldiers fraternizing in Brest, where their forces met during the joint invasion of Poland (colorized photo by Mirek Szponar). We were treated like animals. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. A decisive battle was fought on the banks of river Vistula, just outside Warsaw, when, despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, the Polish forces completely routed and destroyed the Russian army. It was a hellhungry, sick people, children in rail cars, filled with louse. Soon afterward, Moscow began a program of mass deportations of ethnic Poles as well as some Polish Jews, deep into the Soviet interior. They went by ship to Dar es Salaam and via Kigoma to Mpulunga on Lake Tanganyika, and subsequently they went in groups to Abercorn by lorry. In 1941 Joseph Stalin ordered all inhabitants with a German father to be deported, mostly to Siberia or Kazakhstan. There was a mast with a huge Polish flag, and the White Eagle on the gate."[12]. Whilst waiting for a boat to take us to India, we were housed in horse stables. [15] 22,000 Polish military personnel and civilians were killed in the Katyn massacre,[2][19] but thousands of others were victims of NKVD massacres of prisoners in mid-1941, before the German advance across the Soviet occupation zone. Follow me Polish at Heart, 2020. Perhaps that is why (in adulthood), much to the annoyance of our children, I developed an absolute phobia for neatness and tidiness. The victims of that crime must be rescued from oblivion. The author of this blog denies to any person or entity of copyright management the authority to charge third parties for reproducing the contents of this blog. Nothing looked like Poland, but adults in our camp did their best to emphasize our roots. Legacy Google Analytics short-term technical cookie used along with __utmb to determine new users sessions. These first deportations were made when Hitler and Stalin still maintained their alliance (Photo: Instytut Pamici Narodowej). There was a kindergarten, a men's school, a women's school, and a middle school. Tribute was paid in the eastern Polish city of Lublin on Sunday to Poles expelled from the former eastern borderlands and deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities. [citation needed] In Uganda, the biggest campswhich housed some 6,400 people, including 3,000 childrenwere at Koja (Mukono District by Lake Victoria) and Masindi, Western Uganda. Amazing fact: For some, this grim hardship was a gift, not only of life, but of their humanity. One day I saw my fathers shirt lying on the floor actually move with crawling lice. The deportation of Poles by the Russians to slave labour camps in the Soviet Union during In the two years between the invasion of Poland and the 1941 attack on USSR by Germany, the Soviets arrested and imprisoned about 500,000 Poles. On January 15, 1940 the Lww University was reopened; its professors started to teach in accordance with Soviet curricula. In 1941 Joseph Stalin According to the proposed legislation, nobody would receive less than PLN 2,400, or 536 Euro. Note that you need to include Polish characters when searching i.e. It became so bad that I, owing to lack of any vitamins so essential at that time of my life, partly lost my sight and was unable to see in the dusk. "Terminal horror suffered by so many millions of innocent Jewish, Slavic, and other European peoples as a result of this meeting of evil minds is an indelible stain on the history and integrity of Western civilization, with all of its humanitarian pretensions" (Note: "this meeting" refers to the most famous third (Zakopane) conference). La ley establece que podemos almacenar cookies en su dispositivo si son estrictamente necesarias para el funcionamiento de este sitio. In the second stage of evacuation from the interior, more than 43,000 military personnel and about 25,000 civilians left with General Wadysaw Anders across the Caspian Sea to Iran. 1939 wrzesie 17, Moskwa Nota rzdu sowieckiego nie przyjta przez ambasadora Wacawa Grzybowskiego, "Decision to commence investigation into Katyn Massacre", "The Katyn Controversy: Stalin's Killing Field, "ledztwo w sprawie zabjstwa w dniu 22 wrzenia 1939 r. w okolicach miejscowoci Sopokinie generaa brygady Wojska Polskiego Jzefa Olszyny-Wilczyskiego i jego adiutanta kapitana Mieczysawa Strzemskiego przez onierzy b. Zwizku Radzieckiego. Between March 24 and April 4, 33,069 soldiers left the Soviet Union for Iran, as well as 10,789 civilians, including 3,100 children. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. They were so bad that we were continually covered in lice and bedbugs. A Polish Child's WWII Journey. In 1944, the prime minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser, agreed to take a limited number of Polish orphans and half-orphans, whose parents had died either in Soviet Union or Tehran, or whose fathers had fought at the front. We were moved further south to Kazakhstan and accommodated in a small mud hut with another Polish family. POLES DEPORTED TO SIBERIA IN THE YEARS 1940-1945. In August 1945, the number of Polish refugees in Northern Rhodesia was 3,419, of which 1,227 stayed in camps in the capital Lusaka, 1,431 in Bwana Mkubwa at the Copperbelt,164 in Fort Jameson at the border with Nyasaland, and 597 in Abercorn in the Northern Province. My brother Gustaf and I were herded into what became known as. World War Two: The deportation of Polish refugees to Abercorn camp in Northern Rhodesia. After the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, it had been assigned to Germany in the treaty on borders and friendship in September 1939. Entdecke Eine polnische Frauenerfahrung im Zweiten Weltkrieg - 9781350178090 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Further Polish transports went to India by sea, from the port of Ahvaz to Bombay. Still, thousands of distraught Poles remained there, sent to kolkhozs. But this should not make us forget a fact: Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court considers deportations crimes against humanity and war crimes. But we ought not to romanticise. We were brought into a region called Czelabinskaja Oblosc to a place called Czepajewka posiolek hard labour camp. Soviet propaganda claimed that the unfair treatment of non-Poles by the Second Polish Republic justified its dismemberment. [15] Around 55% of the deportees to Siberia and Soviet Central Asia were Polish women.[32]. (as of 1 April 1941). deportation of Poles to Siberia. None survived. Immediately after their conquest of eastern Poland, the Soviet authorities started a campaign of sovietization of the newly acquired areas. They worked as farmers, and their first transport came through India in October 1943 with 720 people, most of them women and children. Because we were travelling in animal trucks, there were hardly any sanitary provisions. In the end unable to bear it any longer, I crawled on to the floor of the bus and stayed there until we miraculously reached Teheran. , , , , , , , . Red Army troops requisitioned food and other goods. She hoped we would return to Poland some day. But there was a crime quantitatively greater and as unknown as that by the general public. Regarding the ethnic composition of these areas: ca. According to depositions by Jzef wiato and other communist sources, the number of members of the Polish underground, rounded up by order of Lavrentiy Beria of the NKVD and deported to Siberia and various gulags in the Soviet Union reached 50,000 in 1945 alone. XCLOSE. This was in August 1920, and ever since [57] The death toll of the initial Soviet-inspired terror campaign remains unknown. [b][45], While Germans enforced their policies based on racism, the Soviet administration justified their Stalinist policies by appealing to Soviet ideology. inauthor:"Marcin Zaremba" in Google Books. My family father Adolf Miluk, mother Anna Miluk (nee Szpula), brothers Alfons and Gustaf, sister Nadzieja and I Helena, were just sitting down to breakfast, when there was a loud and urgent knock on the front door. 5.1 million or 38% of the population were Polish by ethnicity (wrote Elbieta Trela-Mazur),[11] with 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans. You will not receive any email related to other purposes. By then we were very frightened and crying uncontrollably my father white as a sheet. The fourth and final wave occurred in June 1941, deporting 300,000. Living in Africa was very difficult for the Poles who were unfamiliar with local customs and languages and were not used to tropical weather. A very appropriate way of qualifying the crime committed by Stalin against those hundreds of thousands of Jews, sending them to remote places and subjecting us to hardships that led many to death. This meant that all remaining Poles were re-granted Soviet citizenship and received Soviet passports. Thousands of Poles took advantage of this, although not all managed to get out, because news did not reach them in time, before Stalin stoped it. "Polish Refugees in Iran during World War II". It was set up in 1942. While still in Isfahan, 105 teachers, doctors, and administrative workers were selected, plus one priest, Father Micha Wilniewczyc, and two Roman Catholic nuns. The NKVD (Russian Secret Police) had the overall command of these gulags, run by a mostly brutal local administator. Approximately 600 Polish refugees were taken to Abercorn in contingents. In an article published by the British newspaper The Guardian On October 5, 2010, historian Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, wrote: "How well would the Gestapo have dealt with Polish and Jewish opposition without the de facto help of the more experienced and effective Soviet NKVD? Members of the NKVD, Stalin's political police, who collaborated with the German Gestapo between the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the German invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941. Somehow, at some point, my brother Gustaf found me and brought me a piece of bread (his ration for the day I later learned). The story of the horrifying crime carried out by the Russians during WWII on the people of Eastern Poland wasnt well known and still isnt. How can the forced deportation of up to 1.7 million men, women and children of whom only a third survived not be common knowledge? Their migration began was encouraged by local noblemen, often Polish landlords, who wanted to develop their significant land-holdings in the area for agricultural use. On the date of 10th February, 1940, some 218,000 people were forcefully deported from Eastern Poland, and with further deportations during the year, this figure rose to almost 2,000,000. This was only corrected when I was in my middle 60s. February 9, 2020 April 13, 2021. We never did. Para todos los dems tipos de cookies necesitamos su permiso. At first, they were transported to the town of Bandra, in the suburbs of Bombay, where Hanka Ordonwna took care of the kids. The Nazis considered several resettlement proposals, including sending all Jews to Madagascar, before starting their extermination policy. That is where I went to Polish school for the first time in my life. Exactly 80 years ago, deportations of Poles to Siberia began. deportation of Poles to Siberia. Hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens were forced to leave their homes at a moment's notice and were transported in cattle cars to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and other distant parts of Russia. [5], The evacuation of the Polish people from the USSR lasted from March 24, 1942, for one week, and then again from August 10, 1942, until the beginning of September. This story has been placed in the following categories. Built with Volusion. [15] The single man has not been traced; the woman, Josefa Bieronska, moved to South Africa with her children. Start by marking The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia: A Historical Narrative Based on the Written Testimony of the Polish Siberian Survivors as Want to Read: Want to Read saving Want to Read My eyes condition made things so much worse for me and it was thus that I awoke next morning to find a body on top of me. "[65], To this day, the events of those and the following years constitute stumbling blocks in Polish-Russian foreign relations. The Soviet Union never officially declared war on Poland and ceased to recognise the Polish state at the start of the invasion. We, the children, were formed into groups, each group had an adult looking after it. Several camps were opened in and around Bombay, with the biggest one located at Kolhapur Valivade, where 5,000 stayed. However, my country was still being threatened and attacked by Russia, and, faced with this renewed danger, the Head of Polish Armed Forces, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, appealed for volunteers to fight against this new aggression.My father, then 16 years old, volunteered. In 1940 and the first half of 1941, the Soviets deported a total of more than 1,200,000 Poles in four waves of mass deportations from the Soviet-occupied Polish territories. The Soviets established several new chairs, particularly the chairs of Russian language and literature. [58] The country remained under de facto military occupation for many years to come, controlled by the Soviet Northern Group of Forces, which were stationed in Poland until 1993. LUDNO CYWILNA I SIEROTY POLSKIE PO AMNESTII 12 SIERPNIA 1941 ROKU. This book is a collection of individual stories written by survivors of the Polish genocide during the Second World War. 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