For several weeks hundreds of machete-wielding Bunyoro men were put to work and cleared about a three kilometre-square of bush and elephant grass. Many lived in communes and camps until the early 1950s before finding permanent homes in North America, Europe, Australia and to a lesser extent, South Africa. Offices, institutions and offices of the RP, Coronavirus: information and recommendations. http://www.mapywig.org/m/wig500k/MAPA_POLSKI_1_500_000_PRZEMYSL_12_WYDANIE_LOTNICZE.jpg The main wave of Polish refugees sailed away from Iran to Africa. Young Polish women living in exile in Uganda in the 1940s, as the Second World War raged in Europe. Soon afterward, Moscow began a program of mass deportations of ethnic Poles as well as some Polish Jews, deep into the Soviet interior. 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. Overall, during German occupation of pre-war Polish territory, 1939-1945, the Germans murdered 3,900,000 to 6,400,000 Poles, probably about 5,400,000, including near 3,000,000 Jews.7, According to the German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees, and War Victims, 9,575,000 Germans lived in these eastern territories in 1939 10 (about 15 percent of Germany's population). In Tanganyika, the largest settlement was Tengeru (4,000 refugees) and smaller camps were located in Kigoma, Kidugala, Ifunda, Kondoa, and Morogoro. In the Kidugala settlement, 798 Poles lived near the deserted post-German Protestant mission. Warszawa Poland, The Head Office of State Archives The government of Mexico did not finance their staymoney came from the funds of a special Polish-British-American committee. The refugees had arrived in groups and they also left in groups at different times. 00-263 Warszawa "Polish Refugees in Iran during World War II". Altogether, between 1942 and 1947, Polish schools in Palestine had 1,632 students. Zaproszenia ze strony Komitetu Narodowego Amerykanw Polskiego Pochodzenia, Ko?a Oficerw Rezerwy w Nowym Jorku. As a history student, he was surprised about the lack of information about Poles seeking sanctuary in Africa his professor had never heard of Polish refugee camps on the continent. But such isolation was not the norm in the rest of the camps in East Africa. diseases acquired in the Soviet Union which continued to rob the refugees of Relatives of Polish exiles who died in Uganda where they had found refuge during WW2, refresh the tombstone. Ukrains'kyi arkhiv. [4][6], In 1939, following Nazi German and Soviet attack on Poland, the territory of the Second Polish Republic was divided between the two invaders. The arrival of the Polish 4.3 . 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. Awi'tojerska west of L'vivin the 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 no towns or villages nearby, only a small piece of land that had been cut out of the lush tropical forest. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/01/08/world/europe/ap-eu-poland-katyn-massacre.html?emc=eta1&_r=0, Then there were the Soviet deportations. In Ahvaz, "Camp Polonia" was one of the main exit centers for Poles leaving Iran, and the last Ahvaz camp closed in 1945. The pace of evacuation of Polish refugees from Iran to Africa was high. Still, thousands of distraught Poles remained there, sent to kolkhozs. PERIODICALS . Eighty percent of the food consumed by the Jews was smuggled into the ghettos by Poles. In Eastern Africa, six permanent Polish refugee settlements were established: four in Tanganyika (Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda, Kidugala) and two in Uganda (Masindi and Koja). For two years, freight trains ferried entire Polish families across the greater Kresy region to Kazakhstan and luckily, over 110,000 Poles among them 36,000 women and children, managed to leave the Soviet Union with the Polish forces. From Persia half of them were deported to East and Southern Africa. In South Africa alone there were 18 Polish schools with about 1,800 students in attendance. Altogether, in 1943-44 there were 26 schools for Polish refugees in the Near East.[12]. A smaller-scale evacuation to Ashkhabad-Mashhad followed, including the large and final group of civilians. 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. There were also teachers, so schools were built. 2022. czerwiec. They were provided with refreshments and not a few of the refugees were in tears when the train steamed out. 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. The aim was a contented and reasonably self-contained community: the Poles had to be given a sense of purpose, wrote Rennie Montague Bere, a Cambridge University-educated colonial officer in Uganda who was in charge of the two refugee camps. Ul. The family later immigrated to Canada via Iran and Italy. In 1940-41, several hundred thousand citizens of the Second Polish Republic were deported deep into Soviet Russia, which, as a result of aggression with Nazi Germany, occupied the eastern part of Poland after September 17, 1939. PHOTO | UGANDA NATIONAL ARCHIVES. itd. Because 23cm. http://www.poland.pl/articles/index.htm?c=421 Apathetic at first, as the refugees settled into camp life they gradually recovered an interest in using their various skills. 1,400 people arrived on board ship, then they were transported to Dar es Salaam. After the end of WWII in September 1945, the African host countries pushed to get rid of the Polish refugees. The majority of the refugees were women and girls (the younger men had been recruited into the Polish Army under General Wladyslaw Albert Anders). A number of such executions actually took place in Konin and other localities. Language--U. N'iu Iork, Paryzh, 1990. The delicate balance between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies had to be maintained, it seems, at any cost. Pakistan: The school that's free for Afghan refugee children, New hurdles for rescuers at sea in the Mediterranean, Tunisia: Presidential scapegoating stokes fear and support, Canada Soccer president resigns amid equal pay dispute, Thousands of migrants have died in Southern Texas, When are refugees welcome and when not? Skins were tanned for leather and lint-cotton was purchased from nearby ginneries. Transports of scouts, which went to Palestine, were directed to Camp Bashit. The Kondoa settlement had 430 people, who lived in twenty barracks built of clay. Dluga 6 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. When the Polish community Try roky tr'okhlittia Arkhypastyrs'koi pratsi Ilariona, Arkhyiepyskopa Kholms'koho i Pidlias'koho. No doubt "Uncle Joe"(Joe Stalin) homo sovieticus barbarosus incarnate must have been grateful to the Western Allies for their conspiracy of silence, for preserving the "good name" of camp) Poland, Archives: In Uganda, the camps were located in Masindi and Koya on Lake Victoria. There were sports teams, a choir and activities groups. A few hundred people remained in Tanganyika. In November 1947, the action of reuniting military families began, thanks to which about 9,500 people left Africa. These countries included: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The expected end of the war limited further evacuations. This site was spectacularly located on a peninsula jutting out into Lake Victoria. In Northern Rhodesia, 245 evacuees were accepted for permanent residence. Perturbatsii: suspil'no-politychnyi kvartal'nyk. But what happened to the rest of the hundreds of thousands of deportees who did not leave with Anders' army? Like the Nazis in the west of the country, the Soviet Union began to carry out ethnic cleansing. Trukhan, Myroslav. [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. 8s. She hoped we would return to Poland some day. What became of the rest? Wherever they went the Polish refugees encountered effusive good will not only on the part of the respective governments that invited them but also on the part of the native populations. See for full text and footnotes: Podlesice Zivilarbeiterlager (public servants Nothing looked like Poland, but adults in our camp did their best to emphasize our roots. But Poles were reluctant to return to their homeland, which was under staunch Soviet control. (Vydano u spivpratsi z Fundatsiieiu Doslidzhennia Lemkivshyny. In my view, this toll is the direct and indirect responsibility of the new Polish government (although aided, abetted, and promoted by the Soviets), as I will establish in the next section. World War Two: The deportation of Polish refugees to Abercorn camp in Northern Rhodesia. . The Poles living in the settlements in the then Tanganyika formed well-organized communities with an efficiently functioning educational system, cultural and sporting activities. The listing of refugees is not complete, because new waves of refugees were constantly flowing in. At its peak, Koja accommodated around 3,000 Polish refugees. 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. Korespondencja, m.in. [19], The first Polish refugees came to Palestine in summer 1942. 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. 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. 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. + Copies of insurance death claims from the Polish Roman Catholic Union of Both Soviet authorities and citizens of the country claimed that since the Polish Army did not fight the Germans, Poles were not entitled to any privileges. Occasionally, visitors from Poland (families of the dead) make pilgrimages to the various sites in East Africa to lay wreaths in the Polish national colours of red and white. Nowoisiad-Ostrowska depicted quite a sociable image with singing songs in the evening, listening together to the radio in order to be informed about the war in Europe, and doing craftwork with other women in the evenings.[14]. All content published on this website is covered by a. knows. And none of these monstrous figures even include civilian and military combat or war-deaths. The cooking was done in a large kitchen situated in the middle. of hostages, reprisal raids, forced labor, "euthanasia," starvation, exposure, 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. There was a kindergarten, a men's school, a women's school, and a middle school. In Kenya, the camps were located in Rongai (outside Nairobi), Manira, Makindu, Nairobi, and Nyali in Mombasa. That the Western Allies knew all about the deportations is clear from their relief efforts in their behalf in the Soviet Union and the Middle East. It lasted until 16 January 1943, at which point it was effectively revoked. These included 200,828 ethnic Poles, 90,662 Jews, 31,392 Ukrainians, 27,418 Belorussians, 3,421 Russians, and 2,291 persons of other nationalities. The relief assistance afforded With a few days, Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II. The 'Market Garden' plan employed all three divisions of First Allied Airborne Army. 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). Workshops and village industries were started. of the deportees from Eastern Poland who managed to get out of the Soviet Contact our Media sales & Licensing team about access. 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. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. PHOTO | UGANDA NATIONAL ARCHIVES. It triggered an amnesty for the Poles in the USSR. 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. (0-17) 326-84, 326-70 Society volunteers offer a limited research service to members for a reasonable The Polish population, both civilian and military, was evacuated to Iran from the Soviet Union in two stages from March to September 1942. 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. The soldiers of Anders' army went on to fight in many battles, including the one at Monte Cassino; the civilians, because they could not be repatriated, were forced to remain in foreign lands for the remainder of the war. Most Poles were forced to stay in the Soviet Union. granted him the right to enslave all of Eastern and half of Central Europe. For the 733 children and 102 adults it was the end of a long and perilous journey. the Poland - Soviet Union Border during 1945 -1950 3 prymirnyky. All are eager to help the Allied Cause in any way possible. and Polish archives From Poland, over Russia and Iran, to Africa. They ended up in Iran, India, Palestine, New Zealand, and British Africa, as well as in Mexico. The dead were buried at various graveyards in East and Southern Africa. The first group of an estimated 17,000-19,000 Polish refugees arrived in Africa around 1942. Each camp had its own school, clubroom, and theatre. Later on, scouting teams were organized. The contract was Ursus' third deal in Africa, a market that many Polish entrepreneurs are looking to boost. it housed several camps for the thousands of orphaned Polish children, it As the new border between the postwar Poland and the Soviet Union along the Curzon Line (requested by Stalin at Yalta) has been ratified, the ensuing population exchange affected about 1.1 million Poles (including Polish Jews) as well as close to half a million ethnic Ukrainians. Home. While Gen. Anders' troops were subsequently transferred to Palestine and from there to Iraq, the civilians remained in Iran. A large Polish settlement was also founded in Mexico. The majority of applications were citizens of the former Soviet Union (in particular, Chechnya and Ukraine).. These journeys, often several weeks long, brought new suffering and tens of thousands died from hunger, cold, heat, disease and exhaustion on that trip to freedom. Two hostels were also established: one in Island Bay for girls, the other in Lyall Bay for boys. The food was delivered: rice, flour, meat, salt, sugar, tea, and some coffee. The Millenium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine. The British authorities were also preparing for their arrival in Africa. Language--U. Kholm, 1943. http://www.mapywig.org/m/wig500k/MAPA_POLSKI_1_500_000_KRAKOW_11.jpg, From Statistics Of Poland's Democide: Addenda* By R.J. Rummel [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. On the left, smiling and with her arms crossed that was my grandmother," says Durand. After aggression of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the conclusion of SikorskiMaisky agreement in July 1941, when Poland and the Soviet Union became allies, authorities in Moscow allowed the Polish population to leave the place of exile. The first stop of the refugees evacuated with Anders' army was Iran, where they found temporary quarters in large transit camps initially located in Pahlavi and Mashhad, and later in Tehran and Ahvaz. 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. centr. Zahal'na biblioteka. Harvard University. Own farms were run. Ul. Warszawa Poland, The Central Archives of Historical A Canadian filmmaker explores the journey of his Polish forefathers in a documentary. Eventually, they found the area fertile enough to start their own farms growing bananas, pineapples, maize, tomatoes and sunflowers. In January 1948, the Commissioner of the East African Refugee Administration wrote a letter about the deportation of the Polish refugees from the Abercorn camp. Another quarter of a million were repatriated to the "recovered territories" of Language--U. Varshava, There's lots more.Continue on with Poland page 2. 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. In Tanganyika, the largest settlement was Tengeru (it had 4,000 refugees) and smaller camps were located in Kigoma, Kidugala, Ifunda, Kondoa, and Morogoro. Many Poles left Iran for India, thanks to the efforts of Polish consul in Bombay, Eugeniusz Banasinski. [3] Thanks to a remarkable reversal of fortune well over 110,000 Poles, including 36,000 women and children, managed to leave the Soviet Union with Anders' Army. Another report that Van Vliet made a few days later in Washington is considered missing. Durand's grandmother made it to England in 1949. Panstwowe w Rzeszowie And a few years ago, in 1996 in Chicago, the Poles of Santa Rosa celebrated the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the United States. Several scout groups, schools, training centers, a Women's Auxiliary Service, and an Officers' Legion were established. "When your Polish grandmother says that she has gone on safari on Africa's highest mountain, that inspires a child's imagination," he told DW. Just in the city of Bydgoszcz, for example, Germans murdered about 10,000 non-Jewish civilians in four months of occupation. Consuls together with delegates of the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare dealt with Polish refugees. 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. She wanted us to go either to India or Africa, as it was closer to Europe. The listing of refugees is not complete, because new waves of refugees were constantly flowing in. 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. They settled in a camp at Santa Rosa, near the city of Len, in central Mexico. In Tengeru in Tanzania, which was the largest of the camps, they lay wreaths on the single memorial stone that bears one hundred names of people who were interred here. 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 KNBS CPI showed cabbages, carrots and sukuma wiki were among food items whose prices significantly. Language--U. Varshava, 1997. 29. list of polish refugees in east africa and rhodesia. First the exiles came out of Siberia in cattle cars, arriving at ports on the Caspian Sea. The dead were not included in the census, because . The main street of the camp was named after General Tadeusz Br-Komorowski. This was 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. There was spinning, weaving, dressmaking, basket making with raffia from the wild palm trees in the forests, carpentry and metal-working. On August 9, 1942, a second evacuation began, which lasted until September 1. When Britainwent to waron 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. donation. The possibility of relegating Polish civilians to northern and southern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa was also taken into account. Children were the vast majority of the refugees. t.3/4, 1995. 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. Unlike the Soviet Union, these were, after all, ancient civilized cultures. 37-700 Przemysl Altogether, in the two evacuations of 1942, 115,742 left: 78,470 soldiers and 37,272 civilians (13,948 children). Fundatsiia Sv.Volodymyra, . http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP7.ADDENDA.HTM, The Soviets arrested and They had travelled via Russia, Persia, the Middle East to East Africa where, together with other Polish refugees they will build their own settlements. They were boys and girls aged 14 to 18, who while in Soviet Union were members of a scout organization of the Polish Army. Copies of Haller's Army [7] The categories of civilians first targeted by the NKVD included court judges, civil servants, staff of municipal governments, members of the police force, refugees from western Poland, tradesmen, forestry workers, settlers, and small farmers, as well as children from summer camps and Polish orphanages, family members of anyone arrested by the NKVD, and family members of anyone who had escaped to the West or had gone missing. 22sm. World War II. There were definitely Jews among the evacuees. 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. Hankiewicza 1 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. As elsewhere, kindergartens and grammar schools provided for the educational needs of the youngsters. The resettlement from Abercorn was called Operation Polejump. By the end of September 1942, 1,044 people were located in the Ugandan settlement in Masindi, and 510 and 401 respectively in Morogoro and Kondoa in Tanganyika. He was assisted by the camp manager appointed by the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. M23 has been accusing the DRC of ignoring a promise to integrate its fighters into the army. Copies of Residents were associated in a number of cultural and sports associations. T.6. "African countries were on their way to independence and didn't want reminders of colonial rule," said Devlin. Wood scavenged from the surrounding wilderness was used for fuel, and a bakery was eventually established that baked over one thousand loaves of bread daily. 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. Korespondencja w sprawie pomocy charytatywnej, zaproszenia The Indian government agreed to host 10,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 orphans. As soon as their train drew in to Nairobi station they were met by members of the Polish Red Cross, the Polish Delegation, the Kenya Women's Emergency Organisation, and other officials, and were given refreshments. Classes began on September 1, 1942. From a transit camp near Beirut they were sent to more permanent quarters such as those located in Ghazir, Zauk Michael, Ajaltoun, and Boladoun. Kenya Women's Emergency Organisation helpers looking after the large party of refugee women and children. Language--U. Vinnipeh, 1969. The majority refused to return to the country. concerns and construction projects in Southern Rhodesia. Regards, Richard P. From Videofact International, Documentary Press, here is Part 1: The children and the adults were then transported to the North Island, to a town of Pahiatua, where Polish Children's CampPahiatuawas opened in former military barracks. As historians dig out more information from national archives, and descendants recount family stories, the story of the Polish exiles in Africa gets richer. They then constructed temporary mud and thatch huts. First schools were opened in Tehran, where after one year there were ten Polish educational institutions. The bishop came from Kampala to consecrate it. How a displaced Polish family found refuge in Tanzania, Tanzania joins projects financier Africa50, Bola Tinubu: Nigeria's political 'godfather', Tinubu declared Nigeria's president-elect. 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. 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. A hundred kilometres west in the town of Lublin, a small Red Cross centre is overflowing with donations from people eager to help. On November 1, 1944, USS General George M. Randall (AP-115) arrived at Wellington, with 733 children on board. 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