in the plans, and two days later all of the refugees were shipped off to Thousands of Jews were employed by the Soviets in deportation and execution of Polish citizens. Welcoming signs with Polish flags, white eagles, and words of encouragement often greeted their arrival, high government officials paid them visits, and commemorative monuments were erected in their honor. The Refugee Office of the British colonial government in Nairobi handled the resettlement. US membership $20; Canadian membership is $25. The Polish refugees also have a positive memory of the locals, says Durand. Archives in New York, English version. Offices, institutions and offices of the RP, Coronavirus: information and recommendations. The pace of evacuation of Polish refugees from Iran to Africa was high. Durand's grandmother made it to England in 1949. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. Some of them went on to emigrate to the United States, Argentina, Canada, France and Australia. imprisoned about 500,000 Poles during 1939-1941, including former officials, Together, they immigrated to Canada. Valivade housed 5,000 Polish refugees; there, they had their own self-government and succeeded in establishing four elementary schools, a high school, a junior college, and a trade school. Wanda Nowoisiad-Ostrowska, quoted by historian Tadeusz Piotrowski (The Polish Deportees of World War II), remembered that Abercorn camp was divided into six sections of single-room houses, a washing area, a laundry, a church, and four school buildings with seven classes. . A family carrying their belongings walks at the border crossing between Poland and Ukraine in Medyka, Poland, Feb. 24, 2022, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized an invasion of Ukraine. "I recognized the hospital and a group of young girls walking toward the camera. They settled in a camp at Santa Rosa, near the city of Len, in central Mexico. Moreover, several Polish periodicals were published, Polish amateur theaters were founded, and Polish business enterprises flourished. Podlesice Zivilarbeiterlager (public servants That was when Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact that divided several eastern European countries, including Poland, into German and Soviet spheres of interest. Despite the fact that in 1918 all Jewish organizations were against the rebirth of Poland, in1926 Poland gave full citizenship to some 700,000 Jewish refugees from USSR ,while at the same time Jewish refugees who escaped to France remained stateless until WWII. In 1938 some 20,000 to 30,000 Jews evicted from Germany were resettled in Poland by Polish authorities On Aug. 22, 1939 Hitler delivered a secret speech in which he stated that the complete destruction of Poland and especially its population was his primary target. signed in the presence of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, used the itd. At the Polish Institute in London, he found the only existing film footage from the Tanzanian refugee camp where his grandmother had lived. The sworn deposition provides evidence of Soviet responsibility for the 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest and other places in what was then the Soviet Union. African radio stations ran programs in the Polish language and there waseven a Polish press. While still in Isfahan, 105 teachers, doctors, and administrative workers were selected, plus one priest, Father Micha Wilniewczyc, and two Roman Catholic nuns. To all intents and purposes, they had found a brave, new world. Hitler talked about the conquest and colonization of Poland. By genocide, the murder A hundred kilometres west in the town of Lublin, a small Red Cross centre is overflowing with donations from people eager to help. Korespondencja z w?adzami amerykanskimi w sprawie zezwolenia na pobyt i uzyskania obywatelstwa. Pages available in the www.gov.pl domain may contain e-mail addresses. Poles in Mexico were not allowed to leave their camps. Ul. Awi'tojerska MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION, Polish Refugees in India and East Africa, 1942-1946, Deportation of the Polish Population from the Soviet Occupied Part of Poland, 1940-1941, Evacuation of the 2nd Polish Corps from the Soviet Union to Persia and Palestine, 1942. While Gen. Anders' troops were subsequently transferred to Palestine and from there to Iraq, the civilians remained in Iran. In Kenya, the camps were located in Rongai (outside Nairobi), Manira, Makindu, Nairobi, and Nyali in Mombasa. Roma J. Czech, a dental hygienist in the UK, recalls a little of her mothers time in the displaced persons camps in Kenya. 4. They were housed in the Polish Children's Camp located in Pahiatua. Bolicza 2, Addresses of Ukrainian Military Archives in Warsaw t.3/4, 1995. That was when Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact that divided several eastern European countries, including Poland, into German and Soviet spheres of interest. Subject: UKRAINIANS IN POLAND The next groups arriving in October were directed to Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda and Kidugala. The Polish migration to Africa has its roots in an event from August 1939. The Polish Examination Board established examinations for students. They also kept some small livestock such as chicken. The Poles in Africa were mostly disappointed with the result of the conference in Yalta, which led to the dependency of eastern Poland to the regime of Joseph Stalin, and they did not want to return to Poland ruled by communists controlled by the authorities in Moscow. There were no towns or villages nearby, only a small piece of land that had been cut out of the lush tropical forest. (0-17) 326-84, 326-70 Classes began on September 1, 1942. The list of Polish refugees residing in areas of East Africa and Rhodesia was prepared by the Polish Red Cross in Nairobi in 1943. Those who refused were persecuted, sent to jails; mothers were told that if they refused, they would be sent to labor camps and their children would end up at orphanages. Refugees in Poland were, until 2022, a relatively small group. Among the victims on this altar of silence were the 14,500 prisoners of war interned in Kozelsk, Starobelsk, and Ostashkov and Nothing looked like Poland, but adults in our camp did their best to emphasize our roots. There was no need to inform Stalin of the fact that the Soviet authorities often impeded the release of the deportees from their various places of confinement and absolved themselves from assisting them in any way whatsoever upon their release. Information onsurname meaning, frequency, and distribution in Poland. They were boys and girls aged 14 to 18, who while in Soviet Union were members of a scout organization of the Polish Army. Image: Courtesy/Jonathan Durand. Language--U. Varshava. After the end of WWII in September 1945, the African host countries pushed to get rid of the Polish refugees. There were also councils representing residents. ul. However, during first years of war the rate of German and Soviet murder of the Poles was much higher than that of the Jews. Their travel and settlement in British protectorates around the world was made possible by the combined efforts of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile in London as the Second World War raged in Europe. There were 22 different camps that housed 13,000-19,000 Polish exiles spread out across East and Southern Africa, some with more than 6,000 people, others with just a handful of families. The second wave of deportations by the Soviet occupational forces across the Kresy macroregion, affected 300,000 to 330,000 Poles, sent primarily to Kazakhstan. By clicking an e-mail address provided as a link, you consent to the processing of your data (e-mail address and other data provided on a voluntary basis in the message) in order for the recipient to send a response to the submitted questions. Language--U. Varshava, There's lots more.Continue on with Poland page 2. "It was often their first contactwith whites," he told DW. Food was purchased locally from contractors. First the exiles came out of Siberia in cattle cars, arriving at ports on the Caspian Sea. Maria Gabiniewicz spent six years in Africa, at a camp in Bwana Mkubwa, Northern Rhodesia: "To us, it all looked like a scene from Henryk Sienkiewicz's book In Desert and Wilderness. For traveling in the opposite direction and trying to cross the borders of Europe, also in Poland, are thousands of refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere. A commandant usually a British official stood at the head of the administration of each of the settlements. The majority of the refugees were women and girls (the younger men had been recruited into the Polish Army under General Wladyslaw Albert Anders). 23cm. 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. However, after Yalta and the change in Polish borders this became an impossible dream, although a few did return to join their families in Poland. The last Pole, Mr. Edward Wjtowicz, was buried in Tengeru in 2015. The settlements in Koja and Tengeru ended their activities only in the second half of 1952. 3. Within two years of the exiles arrival in Uganda, a unique community life developed in both the settlements, Koja and Nabyeya, which now had primary schools, secondary schools and a secondary economics school. Gdansk: http://www.ap.gdansk.pl/english/linki/poland.php, The Archives of New Records After disembarking at the San Pedro naval dock near Los Angeles, the women and children under 14 years of age were placed in the Griffith Park Internment Camp in Burbank and the men in the Alien Camp in Tuna Canyon. They worked as farmers, and their first transport came through India in October 1943 with 720 people, most of them women and children. Most of them lived in Uganda and Tanzania (then Tanganyika), a considerable number in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) and Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) and some in . Polish refugees in Africa. By the end of 1943, 33,000 refugees were transferred from Iran to other countries. Skins were tanned for leather and lint-cotton was purchased from nearby ginneries. Locals from Tengeru and the Poles even sometimes celebrated mass together, said Devlin, the head of the Center for Flight and Migration at Germany's Catholic University of Eichsttt-Ingolstadt. Eventually, they found the area fertile enough to start their own farms growing bananas, pineapples, maize, tomatoes and sunflowers. This agreement was signed on July 30 1941 and enabled all Polish people to be freed for the purpose of forming an Army and help Stalin fight Hitler. Korespondencja - sprawy urze dowe i osobiste (1946-1947). Only about 3,800 Polish refugees from Africa decided to repatriate to the country, which accounted for about 20% of the total. The eastern half of Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union. [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. Regards, Richard P. From Videofact International, Documentary Press, here is Part 1: camp) Poland, Archives: Panstwowe w Rzeszowie With a few days, Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War 2. Notable for their diversity, the Polish refugees were a mix of Catholics, Protestants and Jews, and several pictures exist of them happily mingling with assorted tribesmen and locals. Krakivs'ki Ukrainoznavchi Zoshyty. The dead were not included in the census, because . [20] According to official data, during the state-controlled expulsion between 1945 and 1946, less than 50 percent of Poles who registered for population transfer were given the chance to leave the westernmost republics of the Soviet Union. But Poles were reluctant to return to their homeland, which was under staunch Soviet control. 1 November 1944. List: Red Cross Polish Refugees The list of Polish refugees residing in areas of East Africa and Rhodesia was prepared by the Polish Red Cross in Nairobi in 1943. The Kondoa settlement had 430 people, who lived in twenty barracks built of clay. In Africa, Polish schools, churches, hospitals, civic centers, and manufacturing and service cooperatives were founded and Polish culture prospered. Residents of Tanganyika, on their own initiative, helped newcomers from Poland to settle in the new country. Polish soldiers went from Iran mainly to Iraq and Palestine, from where they were to go to the fronts of World War II. [1] Within months, in order to de-Polonize annexed lands, the Soviet NKVD rounded up and deported between 320,000 and 1 million Polish nationals to the eastern parts of the USSR, the Urals, and Siberia. Eventually, they migrated mostly to Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. Language--U. Vinnipeh, 1969. July 30, 1941, provided for the release of all Poles in Soviet exile as The resettlement from Abercorn was called Operation Polejump. Ukrainian Studies Fund. Young Polish women living in exile in Uganda in the 1940s, as the Second World War raged in Europe. For many, the help provided by the United States and Great Britain was too little and too late. Pictures taken at Nairobi station, when hundreds of refugee Polish women and children, deportees rescued from Soviet captivity in Siberia, passed through on their way to build a new life in Uganda. For the plight of Poles who remained in the Soviet interior until the defeat of Germany, see Polish population transfers (194446) and the population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine. 02-103 Warszawa Korespondencja z rodzina (1939-1940). 8s. Gore Browne, expected around 500 Polish refugees to arrive from the Middle East. (Vydano u spivpratsi z Fundatsiieiu Doslidzhennia Lemkivshyny. Of all the research Durand undertook, one discovery made a great impression. (03.06.2019), Polish tractor maker Ursus signed a huge contract with Tanzania's National Service Corporation Sole. Care had been taken in planning the settlement to avoid giving it the look of a military barracks. There were sports teams, a choir and activities groups. Show more. Zustrichi. Another quarter of a million were repatriated to the "recovered territories" of recruited families willing to take in a hundred orphans. Jewish Ghetto Police were to arrest non-Jews who made purchases in stores exclusively designated for the Jews or brought merchandise or food with them. ul. She wanted us to go either to India or Africa, as it was closer to Europe. Each camp had its own school, clubroom, and theatre. About 700,000 Poles were sent to Germany for forced labor,6 many to die there. The delicate balance between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies had to be maintained, it seems, at any cost. They then constructed temporary mud and thatch huts. During 1939 to 1941 the Soviets deported 1,200,000 Poles deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor or resettlement, of which perhaps 146,000 died. In America, the date of the arrival of the first transport aboard the USS Hermitage (on June 25, 1943 consisting of 706 refugees, including 166 children) was a State secret. Eighty percent of the food consumed by the Jews was smuggled into the ghettos by Poles. When they arrived they . The arrival of the Polish 4.3 . During the two great evacuations (the first, between March 24 and the beginning of April 1942; the second, between August 10 and September 1, 1942), from Krasnovodsk across the Caspian Sea to Pahlavi (Iran), and the smaller overland evacuations from Ashkhabad to Mashhad (in March and September 1942), about 115,000 people (including some 37,000 civilians, of whom about 18,300 were children) left the Soviet Union. Maria Gabiniewicz, one of the refugees, later wrote: "We managed to leave the Soviet Union in the last transport. t.208. Unable to return to war-torn Poland, some 116,000 Polesliving in the Soviet Union were evacuated to Iran, which had been invaded by the Anglo-Soviet alliance. maps. After Yalta PHOTO | UGANDA NATIONAL ARCHIVES. UNHCR's main objectives in Poland are to monitor access to territory and reception conditions as well as advocate for an efficient and protection-sensitive asylum system and related policies. ch.1,3-4, 1990. The Poles living in the settlements in the then Tanganyika formed well-organized communities with an efficiently functioning educational system, cultural and sporting activities. World War Two: The deportation of Polish refugees to Abercorn camp in Northern Rhodesia. Western Poland during the massive population exchanges following These countries included: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Furthermore, there were schools in Egypt, at Tall al Kabir and Heliopolis. There were many babies in arms in the party and several women of 70 or more. Bogdan Harbuz stayed at Koja camp: "We did not receive any money for food, we only got 5 shillings a month for our expenses. "De-Polonizing the territories newly incorporated into the USSR", "Near and Middle East: The evacuation of the Polish people from the USSR", "Evacuation of Polish civilians from the Soviet Union to Persia 1942". At its peak, Koja accommodated around 3,000 Polish refugees. They were surrounded by dense, wildlife-infested forest. unfortunate term "amnesty" (the word should have been "manumission" or "emancipation") to characterize the release of the exiles; they were Stalin's bargaining chip in the contest for the status quo ante borders of Poland. Sorokowski, Andrew. In World War Two Polish refugees were deported from Poland to the Soviet Union, to Uzbekistan and to Persia. Korespondencja - sprawy prywatne i rodzinne (1949-1950, 1957). It was a hellhungry, sick people, children in rail cars, filled with louse. Language--U. Krakiv, 1995. The Polish representative to the Potsdam conference claimed there were only 1,500,000, the United States estimated 2,000,000. The [following] article The second camp was established at Koja in Mukuno district about 100 kilometres east of Kampala, the Ugandan capital and about 35 kilometres from Mukono railway station. Southern Rhodesia, then a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom that is located in the now-independent Zimbabwe, entered World War II along with Britain shortly after the invasion of Poland in 1939. Warszawa Poland, The Central Archives of Historical Just in the city of Bydgoszcz, for example, Germans murdered about 10,000 non-Jewish civilians in four months of occupation. Earlier, already in September 1941, the Polish government decided to set up consulates in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda as well as in both Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. concerns and construction projects in Southern Rhodesia. South Africa, South Rhodesia, and North Rhodesia also became the home of Poles. Who is Nigerias president-elect Bola Tinubu? Consuls together with delegates of the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare dealt with Polish refugees. Often it was not accurate, especially as far as dates The majority refused to return to the country. Among the deportees 52 percent were Poles, 30 percent were Jews, and 18 percent were Ukrainians and Byelorussians. Peredmova Vasylia Markusia) 403st. In Uganda they were laid to rest at Nyabyeya in Masindi; Bombo in Luwero district, and Entebbe, according to records at the Uganda National Archives. Korespondencja, m.in. [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. [18] In late 1942 and early 1943, Polish camps in Iran were located at Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Ahvaz. Arrested Polish gentiles were to be turned over to the Germans for execution. This number does not include those shot for failing or straying out of line during deportation, or disobeying an The KNBS CPI showed cabbages, carrots and sukuma wiki were among food items whose prices significantly. We were mentally shaped by such organizations, as Sodality of Our Lady, and The Eucharistic Crusade. by Polish, British, American, and Iranian authorities soon improved their Among people who stayed there was Bogdan Czaykowski. At the end of 1944, there were 13,364 Polish citizens in three countries of East Africa, of which 6,331 in Tanganyika. Some exiles also found asylum in India in transit camps set up in Quetta, Mount Abu, Panchgani, Bandra, and in and near Karachi (such as the Country Club Camp, Haji Pilgrims Camp, and the Malir Camp). The main route led through Turkmenistan to the Pahlevi transit camp in Iran (now Bandar-e Anzali) and from there mainly to camps in Tehran. Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access. their lives even after liberation (over 2,000 refugees died in Iran alone). This has fueled speculation that the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet responsibility for the massacre out of fear that saying the truth would anger Stalin, whom the Allies were counting on to help them defeat Germany and Japan in World War II. The British agreed to evacuate Polish civilians from Iran and presented a plan for the placement of refugee settlements. The resulting film, "Memory is our Homeland," won the Audience Award at the Montreal International Film Festival in 2019. People kept their own gardens, with vegetables. Marunchak, Mykhailo (1914). The government of Mexico did not finance their staymoney came from the funds of a special Polish-British-American committee. Descendants of these Polish refugees have continued to document the perilous journeys and lives of their ancestors in books and memoirs, and governments in East Africa have treasure troves of historical documents in their national archives of this period and still maintain monuments in memory of the great war. Records Only three or so trips were allowed, so, sadly, those who arrived too late were unable to get out. His grandmother's testimonies about her life in the small town of Tengeru in northern Tanzania motivated the filmmaker to embark on an emotionally charged nine-year journey that took him to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. diseases acquired in the Soviet Union which continued to rob the refugees of Warszawa Poland, The Archives of Audio-visual living conditions and brought the devastating contagious diseases under control, Among the many significant happenings of the Second World War is the story of thousands of Polish exiles who found refuge in East and Southern Africa. This thesis explores why the camp was built in such a remote area . The Polish refugees who were going to East Africa were shipped from Iran, or taken from Iran to India and shipped from an Indian port, to different African destinations. W arsaw, P oland The refugee center that Dr. Tade Daniel Omoshoto set up in a southwestern residential neighborhood of Warsaw doesn't look like much . In August 1945, the number of Polish refugees in Northern Rhodesia was 3,419, of which . A few hundred people remained in Tanganyika. Tyrsa. If this site was helpful to you, please consider making a donation to keep it going. Hitler's orders issued at this crucial moment had nothing to do with the extermination of Jews, however these orders were a retaliation for derailment by the Poles of Hitler's strategy to conquer the Euro-Asian Heartland.. Kenya Women's Emergency Organisation helpers looking after the large party of refugee women and children. World War II. papers in Archiwa IJP, Polish version, http://dione.ids.pl/~ijp/pol/aog4.html or Polish his evil empire. As for what happened to those who never got out, God only There was a kindergarten, a men's school, a women's school, and a middle school. Lesiv, Mykhailo. [15] The single man has not been traced; the woman, Josefa Bieronska, moved to South Africa with her children. 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. Some had to travel by land to Ashgabat. There were also teachers, so schools were built. And none of these monstrous figures even include civilian and military combat or war-deaths. Thus ended the saga The last camp that was built in Northern Rhodesia at Abercorn (today's Mbala, Zambia). T.3. From Persia half of them were deported to East and Southern Africa. + Copies of insurance death claims from the Polish Roman Catholic Union of The details concerning processing of personal data by each unit can be found in their respective policies concerning the processing of personal data. Why didn't America open its doors, and open them wide, to the Polish refugees? In time, various Polish institutions, including 24 schools serving some 3,000 students, were established in Iran and several. In January 1944, the Polish staff in all East African camps had been reduced. For the 733 children and 102 adults it was the end of a long and perilous journey. The State Archive in Rzeszw The best housing conditions were enjoyed by Poles settling in Ifunda 780 people lived in 100 brick houses concentrated in five districts, which had own kitchens, dining rooms, laundry rooms and warehouses. Humanity's history of migration by sea from Troy to Lampedusa, Polish tractors plowing a furrow to Africa, 'EU must rethink its approach to migration', Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy calls for ICC Russia probe, NATO: Finland forges ahead of Sweden toward membership, More than mercenaries: Russia's Wagner Group in Africa, Russian troops step up fight to cut off Bakhmut supply lines. They settled in transit and permanent camps in the British colonies of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika. The coastline of Lake Victoria consisted of papyrus reeds, scrubby bush and dense forest, ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes and tsetse fly. In Kenya, they were located in Rongai, Manira, Makindu, Nairobi, and Nyali near Mombasa. All content published on this website is covered by a. [4] Among those who remained in the Soviet Union, about 150,000 Poles perished before the end of the war. According to one of the evacuees, Wanda Ellis: The hunger was terrible, we did not get a loaf of bread a day, as we had in Siberia. The settlements were divided into sections and groups, and the heads of departments of education, pastoral care, health care, culture and work were appointed. The 3,635 Poles were housed in six small villages. It is not only near Poland's 500-kilometre border with Ukraine where citizens are keen to show their solidarity with the refugees. Zahal'na biblioteka. 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. The Jewish population of 8,700,000 was trapped under the control of the Berlin government; at least sixty percent (or about 5,100,000) were exterminated by the Germans during World War II. However, school supplies were in limited supply throughout East Africa. Polish children in Tengeru, Tanzania in 1946. There were several waves of deportations during which families were sent to barren land in the Soviet Union. Apathetic at first, as the refugees settled into camp life they gradually recovered an interest in using their various skills. Sea transports were sent to the transit camps in British India (the port of Karachi in todays Pakistan) and from there to the settlements in India, Africa, Mexico and New Zealand. Language--U. Kholm, 1943. ch.1, 1989; ch.2, 1990. 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. Since 1989, the number of people applying for refugee status in Poland has risen from about 1,000 to 10,000 each year; about 1-2% of the applications were approved. The majority of applications were citizens of the former Soviet Union (in particular, Chechnya and Ukraine).. Adamem i Iza Zamoyskimi, Zofia, Janowa,Tarnowska, oraz w sprawach Abercorn camp 4.1. 21sm. Often it was not accurate, especially as far as dates of birth. Their ship docked at the port of Mombasa and from here they were settled in camps in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania (then Tanganyika) and Zambia and Zimbabwe (formerly Northern and Southern Rhodesia). 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