Author: Keith SwordPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349213818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939–41
Author: Keith SwordPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349213818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-41
Author: Keith SwordPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312055707
Category : Belarus
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-1941
Author: The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939–41
Author: Keith SwordPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349213799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Deportation and Exile
Author: K. SwordPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333593769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in 1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil, tens of thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. The rest either made their way back to Poland as combat troops, having been recruited to a second, communist-led army in 1943-44, or else awaited formal repatriation agreements concluded towards the end of the war.
War Through Children's Eyes
Author: Jan T. GrossPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817974732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On September 17, 1939, two weeks after the German invasion of Poland, Soviet troops occupied the eastern half of Poland and swiftly imposed a new political and economic order. Following a plebiscite, in early November the area was annexed to the Ukraine and Belorussia. Beginning in the winter of 1939&–40, Soviet authorities deported over one million Poles, many of them children, to various provinces of the Soviet Union. After the German attack on the USSR in summer 1941, the Polish government in exile in London received permission from its new-found ally to organize military units among the Polish deportees and later to transfer Polish civilians to camps in the British-controlled Middle East. There the children were able to attend Polish-run schools.The 120 essays translated here were selected from compositions written by the students of these schools. What makes these documents unique is the perception of these witnesses: a child's eye view of events no adult would consider worth mentioning. In simple language, filled with misspellings and grammatical errors, the children recorded their experiences, and sometimes their surprisingly mature understanding, of the invasion and the Societ occupation, the deportations eastward, and life in the work camps and kolkhozes. The horrors of life in the USSR were vivid memories; privation, hunger, disease, and death had been so frequent that they became accepted commonplaces. Moreover, as the editors point out in their introductory study, these Polish children were not alone in their suffering. All the nationalities that came under Soviet rule shared their fate.
War Through Children's Eyes
Author: Irena Grudzińska-GrossPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
During the Wolrd War II Soviet authorities deported over one million Poles, many of them children, to various provinces of the Soviet Union. In 1941 the Polish government in exile in London received permission to organize military units among the Polish deportees and later to transfer Polish civilians to camps in the British-controlled Middle East. There the children were able to attend Polish-run schools. The 120 essays translated here were selected from compositions written by the students of these schools.
War Through Children's Eyes
Author: Irena Grudzińska-GrossPublisher:
ISBN: 9780817974787
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
During the Wolrd War II Soviet authorities deported over one million Poles, many of them children, to various provinces of the Soviet Union. In 1941 the Polish government in exile in London received permission to organize military units among the Polish deportees and later to transfer Polish civilians to camps in the British-controlled Middle East. There the children were able to attend Polish-run schools. The 120 essays translated here were selected from compositions written by the students of these schools.
Deportation and Exile
Author: Keith SwordPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312123970
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book attempts to chart the ebb-and-flow of population movement that resulted from two periods of Soviet occupation of Polish territory during the Second World War: between 1939 and 1941 and again in 1944-45. Much of this migration was involuntary. Polish citizens were uprooted and driven, buffeted by forces seemingly beyond their control. In reality, they were at the mercy of decisions taken by politicians and officials hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Between 1939 and 1941 Stalin removed an estimated 1.5 million people from the areas of eastern Poland, annexed as a result of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact. Chapters in the book deal with the process of mass deportation, the unique 'amnesty' extended to captive Poles following the German attack of June 1941, and the circumstances surrounding the controversial evacuation of General Anders' forces to Persia in 1942. Less well-known to a non-Polish readership is the role played by the Polish communists in Moscow following the 1943 break in Polish-Soviet relations, the renewed deportations of the Polish underground army which took place in 1944-45, and the repatriation scheme under which 1.25 million Poles moved west during the 1944-48 period.
Author: E. F.