In time, various Polish institutions, including 24 schools serving some 3,000 students, were established in Iran and several. 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? After a short stay, they too were dispatched across the border to Colonia Santa Rosa. obituaries and death notices found in the Dziennik Chicagoski, 1890-1971. Expulsion from Poland - beginning of wandering. The majority refused to return to the country. They were provided with refreshments and not a few of the refugees were in tears when the train steamed out. 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. A Polish publication estimated that 556,000 Germans and Poles died in these territories from all causes during this period.30 The West German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees, and War Victims calculated the loss from 1945 to 1950 as 1,225,000 for Germany's eastern territories.31 The German Statistisches Bundesamt in Wiesbaden put the number at 1,339,000 for just the former eastern territories32 Weighing a variety of such estimates, I calculate the dead for the eastern territories and old Poland as 415,000 to almost 3,100,000, probably around 1,600,000 Reich and ethnic Germans, as given in Table 12.1. Most Poles were forced to stay in the Soviet Union. The approaching end of the war and the withdrawal of recognition for the Polish government in exile on 5 July 1945 by the British, raised the question about the future of Polish settlements in Africa. 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. The next transfer took place in 195559, after Stalin's death.[21]. Another transport arrived at the Mombasa port in Kenya on September 19. Lelewela 4 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. Abdi Latif Dahir. 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. The expected end of the war limited further evacuations. 22sm. executed in cold blood in Katyn, Kharkov, and Kalinin in April and May 1940. In October 1942, the Director of War Evacuees and Camps of Northern Rhodesia, Gore Browne, expected around 500 Polish refugees to arrive from the Middle East. But Poles were reluctant to return to their homeland, which was under staunch Soviet control. 1,400 people arrived on board ship, then they were transported to Dar es Salaam. Food was purchased locally from contractors. But those the Soviets only arrested and inprisoned were lucky. 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. Offices, institutions and offices of the RP, Coronavirus: information and recommendations. [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. T.3. The amnesty for the Polish people in Russia came about as a consequence of an agreement between Stalin, Churchill, Anthony Eden and the Polish government in exile in London. But such isolation was not the norm in the rest of the camps in East Africa. and demanded "Why can't they stay here?" http://www.poland.pl/articles/index.htm?c=421 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. 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. The Polish migration to Africa has its roots in an event from August 1939. knows. 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 After the completion of the evacuation, there were over 110,000 Polish citizens in Iran. 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. Snakes and other natural perils were commonplace. By genocide, the murder Language--U. Vinnipeh, 1969. Poles in Mexico were not allowed to leave their camps. Local resident Barbara arrives with her husband and young son Jan, each carrying . Peredmova Vasylia Markusia) 403st. POLISH REFUGEES IN EAST AFRICA, 1942-1946 description Object description Kenya Women's Emergency Organisation helpers looking after the large party of refugee women and children. 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. officers, and natural "enemies of the people," like the clergy. In Palestine, the camps for the over 5,000 refugees transferred there were located in Nazareth, Rehovot, Ain-Karem,and Barbara. Image: Courtesy/Jonathan Durand. Awi'tojerska Eighty percent of the food consumed by the Jews was smuggled into the ghettos by Poles. T.6. There was a mast with a huge Polish flag, and the White Eagle on the gate."[12]. Additional Polish transports arrived in late 1943. Zustriczi: kwartalnik ukrainski (wersja polskojezyczna). Posted on . It is a miracle that we survived, with thousands dead.[12]. July 30, 1941, provided for the release of all Poles in Soviet exile as 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. Approximately 600 Polish refugees were taken to Abercorn in contingents. From 1942 to 1949, Gerech lived with her siblings and parents in a simple thatched hut in Tengeru in what was then the British-administered territory of Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There were several waves of deportations during which families were sent to barren land in the Soviet Union. camp) Poland, Archives: According to a January 15, 1943, note from Beria to Stalin, 389,041 Polish citizens were freed as a result of that "amnesty.". 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. On March 19, 1942, General Wadysaw Anders ordered the evacuation of Polish soldiers and civilians who lived next to army camps. Polish Genealogical society of America http://www.pgsa.org/. Later on, scouting teams were organized. 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. The resettlement from Abercorn was called Operation Polejump. Unfortunately, due to bad health conditions caused by the poor living standard in the Soviet Union and the hardships of traveling, more than 2,100 people (5.7% of the total) died in Iran due to dysentery, typhoid, malaria and diseases caused by malnutrition. For tens of thousands the Soviet Union became their final resting place before the war's end. Balachadi became a refuge for some 1,000 Polish children. At the Polish Institute in London, he found the only existing film footage from the Tanzanian refugee camp where his grandmother had lived. When using our website, the cookie files are downloaded onto your device. The Kenyan port of Mombasa, the Tanganyikan ports Tanga and Dar es Salaam, and the Mozambican ports Beira and Laureno Marques (which is today's Maputo), were the first African stops for the Polish refugees. It was often their first contact with whites, he told DW. Transports of scouts, which went to Palestine, were directed to Camp Bashit. 00-263 Warszawa 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). Also: Language. Africa provided another safe harbor for the Poles. Workshops and village industries were started. Wymiana listw z instytucjami w Stanach Show more. 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. 68p. Several scout groups, schools, training centers, a Women's Auxiliary Service, and an Officers' Legion were established. LUDNO CYWILNA I SIEROTY POLSKIE PO AMNESTII 12 SIERPNIA 1941 ROKU. Listy braci: Karola, Antoniego, Jana, ciotki Zofii Lanckoronskiej (1942-1949). But that was not [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. Some had to travel by land to Ashgabat. "They were young, and these intercultural encounters have shaped their humanity.". A large Polish settlement was also founded in Mexico. . The last camp that was built in Northern Rhodesia at Abercorn (today's Mbala, Zambia). Language--U. N'iu Iork, Paryzh, 1990. page http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/, PIASA: http://www.piasa.org/polisharchives.html Among people who stayed there was Bogdan Czaykowski. During his travels to the former Polish refugee camps in South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, Durand said that local people "had good memories of the Poles,"who farmed and sent their children to school. Having unloaded H.M. Troopship Nevasa at Karachi, then in India, now West Pakistan they were tasked to sail to Khorramshahr, in Persia, now Iran on the 17th of March 1944. Northern Rhodesia 3.1. Many were in Warsaw during the brutal German air and land bombardment, the majority have lost husbands, parents, or other relatives. The list of Polish refugees residing in areas of East Africa and Rhodesia was prepared by the Polish Red Cross in Nairobi in 1943. Language--U. Kholm, 1943. Relatives of Polish exiles who died in Uganda where they had found refuge during WW2, refresh the tombstone. The majority of applications were citizens of the former Soviet Union (in particular, Chechnya and Ukraine).. Pages available in the www.gov.pl domain may contain e-mail addresses. Camps: ch.1,3-4, 1990. They shot former politicians, and government, cultural, professional, and intellectual leaders, or sent them to die in concentration camps. Some, no doubt, are still there. Among the victims on this altar of silence were the 14,500 prisoners of war interned in Kozelsk, Starobelsk, and Ostashkov and The Polish refugees housed in the various camps in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, India, and Africa moved to Great Britain and its dominions, Canada and Australia, from where some of them later emigrated to the United States; some also settled in Argentina. "African countries were on their way to independence and didn't want reminders of colonial rule," said Devlin. [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. The next groups arriving in October were directed to Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda and Kidugala. (1942-48) 7c Polish refugees in Africa (1942-50) 7d Polish refugees in Mexico (1943-47) 7e Polish refugees in New Zealand (1944-51) 8 Soviet Counterstrike. Of all the research Durand undertook, one discovery made a great impression. 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.. All are eager to help the Allied Cause in any way possible. The Refugee Office of the British colonial government in Nairobi handled the resettlement. 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. Language--P. Varshava, 1990. In Eastern Africa, six permanent Polish refugee settlements were established: four in Tanganyika (Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda, Kidugala) and two in Uganda (Masindi and Koja). Illnessestyphoid, dysentery, no restrooms in cars. After twelve days, we reached the port of Beira in Mozambique. + Copies of insurance death claims from the Polish Roman Catholic Union of 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. In January 1944, the Polish staff in all East African camps had been reduced. Korespondencja - sprawy prywatne i rodzinne (1949-1950, 1957). PHOTO | UGANDA NATIONAL ARCHIVES. [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. 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. 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 British authorities were also preparing for their arrival in Africa. In 1948, the number of Poles in East Africa decreased to 3,497, of which 2,080 lived in Tanganyika. In Eastern Africa, six permanent Polish refugee settlements were established: four in Tanganyika (Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda, Kidugala) and two in Uganda (Masindi and Koja). A few hundred people remained in Tanganyika. Shelved under: Naukove Tovarystvo im.Shevchenka. In World War Two Polish refugees were deported from Poland to the Soviet Union, to Uzbekistan and to Persia. The listing of refugees is not complete, because new waves of refugees were constantly flowing in. 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. There, all were divided into several groups and began their education. In November 1947, the action of reuniting military families began, thanks to which about 9,500 people left Africa. Moreover, several Polish periodicals were published, Polish amateur theaters were founded, and Polish business enterprises flourished. 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]. It is no longer just a footnote in history. The local tribes provided the Poles with building materials and food and worked on the construction of Polish settlements. The document, 2022. czerwiec. The dead were buried at various graveyards in East and Southern Africa. Unlike elsewhere, upon graduation the teens were placed either in schools operated by religious orders or in technical colleges. Sorokowski, Andrew. The Poles living in the settlements in the then Tanganyika formed well-organized communities with an efficiently functioning educational system, cultural and sporting activities. Warszawa Poland, The Head Office of State Archives 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. Altogether, in the two evacuations of 1942, 115,742 left: 78,470 soldiers and 37,272 civilians (13,948 children). 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. Check with Polish Archives for birth records, Polish army records. At that time, the Poles were the largest minority of European origin in East Africa. 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. Korespondencja z rodzina (1939-1940). 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. Dluga 6 While Gen. Anders' troops were subsequently transferred to Palestine and from there to Iraq, the civilians remained in Iran. and Polish archives The listing of refugees is not complete, because new waves of refugees were constantly flowing in. Bolicza 2, Addresses of Ukrainian Eventually, they migrated mostly to Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. In all, 16 Polish schools were attended by some 2,300 Polish children in India. Two hostels were also established: one in Island Bay for girls, the other in Lyall Bay for boys. Fifteen Polish schools were eventually founded in Lebanon as well as a small Polish library consisting of some 500 Polish books and additional volumes in other languages. It was in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, where the exiles got their first glimpse of Africans close up. Ul. In an official letter from the British Authorities it was said: "It has been agreed that the welfare work in the Polish settlements must continue and the minimum staff stays to ensure this must be retained." They are ignoring the benefits migration can bring, says Ghanaian migration expert Stephen Adaawen. People kept their own gardens, with vegetables. Ul. The British Empire and Northern Rhodesia 3.2. Stalin simply said that there were none -- all those surviving the war had run away13 Churchill, however, saw the true dimension of the issue. The arrival of the Polish 4.3 . Migration expert Julia Devlin agrees with Durand's findings. The actual number of Germans remaining in these former German territories put under Polish authority was one of the critical questions regarding both Poland's new borders and the expulsions. Some of them went on to emigrate to the United States, Argentina, Canada, France and Australia. In mid-1944, East Africa hosted over 13,000 Polish citizens. http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/archiwum.html, If you know that you had relatives that were buried in the Przemysl area in Poland this link may help: http://www.cmentarzeprzemysl.pl/, In 1950 there was a border adjustment in the area maps. The Allies never officially contradicted the Soviet line that the Germans, 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. 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. Language--U. Varshava, 1997. Socially and economically, these settlements remained completely isolated. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from Indeed, parts of this region are dotted with monuments and graves of foreign soldiers who fought and died in these parts. The Millenium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine. 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. 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. Why didn't America open its doors, and open them wide, to the Polish refugees? READ: How a displaced Polish family found refuge in Tanzania. 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. "It was a friendly existence, side by side," she told DW. (Vydano u spivpratsi z Fundatsiieiu Doslidzhennia Lemkivshyny. The government of Mexico did not finance their staymoney came from the funds of a special Polish-British-American committee. Warszawa Poland, The Archives of Audio-visual There were sports teams, a choir and activities groups. 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. 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. Zjednoczonych (1941-1942). In Kenya, they were located in Rongai, Manira, Makindu, Nairobi, and Nyali near Mombasa. 7a Polish refugees in Middle East (1942-47) . Ukrains'kyi arkhiv. (Roman Kryk, red.) Another report that Van Vliet made a few days later in Washington is considered missing. Marunchak, Mykhailo (1914). Their home became a deserted hacienda in Santa Rosa, near Leen. Although provisions were made to resettle several thousand Poles in that country, only two transports arrived in the summer and fall of 1943 with a total of 1,432 refugees. Polish evacuees had to travel by train to Krasnovodsk, where they took a ship across the Caspian Sea to Iran. The largest of these settlements were: in the Union of South Africa Oudtshoorn; in North Rhodesia Abercorn, Bwana M'Kubwa, Fort Jameson, Livingstone, and Lusaka; in South Rhodesia Digglefold, Marandellas, Rusape, and Gatooma. 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. We were very poor, there were no jobs, kids had their classes in the open, there were no books." . The clusters of Polish refugees also arose in both Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. They were housed in the Polish Children's Camp located in Pahiatua. Altogether, in 1943-44 there were 26 schools for Polish refugees in the Near East.[12]. Then a special camp for Polish children was built near the village of Balachadi in Jamnagar, Kathiawar, thanks to help of the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (see also Help of Maharaja of Nawanagar for Polish refugees). Sanok-Przemysl-Belz area. 29. list of polish refugees in east africa and rhodesia. Unlike the Soviet Union, these were, after all, ancient civilized cultures. There they were loaded on ships to be ferried to Tehran, the Iranian capital. Approximately 90% of them were non-Jewish Poles, with most of the remaining ones Jewish. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. http://www.pgsa.org/membership.htm As historians dig out more information from national archives, and descendants recount family stories, the story of the Polish exiles in Africa gets richer. And more. 11 Perhaps no more than a couple of hundred thousand Poles lived there as well.12. He ordered his military commanders to use the utmost ferocity in merciless killing Polish men, women, and children. These exiles found temporary refuge in Iran, India, Palestine, New Zealand, Mexico and British East and Southern Africa. 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. The delicate balance between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies had to be maintained, it seems, at any cost. Each slice of bread had to be stolen or gotten in any other way. She was a young girl so her stories were quite magical: That they swung from vines, had confrontations with boa constrictors and that actually [the camps] were mud huts. Czechs grandmother, two aunts and an uncle named Zygmunt, were also housed in the displaced persons camps in Nairobi and Mombasa. in the plans, and two days later all of the refugees were shipped off to and intellectuals.3 Some 4,254 of these were uncovered in mass graves in Katyn Forest by the Nazis in 1941, who then invited an international group of neutral representatives and doctors to study the corpses and confirm Soviet guilt.4 For more about Katyn, see: VHO.org. 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 . Records the Poland - Soviet Union Border during 1945 -1950 Organisation and regulations of the camps in East Africa . It triggered an amnesty for the Poles in the USSR. Many of those who wound up in New Zealand and the Union of South Africa remained where they were brought. This was "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. 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. 492s. Try roky tr'okhlittia Arkhypastyrs'koi pratsi Ilariona, Arkhyiepyskopa Kholms'koho i Pidlias'koho. state archives, goverment archives of Poland, English version: http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/?CIDA=43, Polish home And none of these monstrous figures even include civilian and military combat or war-deaths. donation. 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. Moreover, even while in Iran, although debriefed, the refugees were not encouraged to speak about their experiences in the Soviet Union with outsiders. The last Pole, Mr. Edward Wjtowicz, was buried in Tengeru in 2015. 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. A Polish Child's WWII Journey. During World War Two, close to 20,000 Polish people found refuge in African countries. If this site was helpful to you, please consider making a donation to keep it going. The two refugee camps in Uganda were built at Koja, on the shores of Lake Victoria and Nyabyeya, Budongo Forest Reserve in Masindi district in northwestern Uganda. First schools were opened in Tehran, where after one year there were ten Polish educational institutions. 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. All the camps and settlements established in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, India, Africa, Mexico, and New Zealand were meant to be temporary quarters for the Polish refugees until the end of the war and the expected liberation of their country. Archiwum Panstowe w Przemyslu NKVD agents issued Soviet passports to Poles in February-May 1943. The little known story of the Polish refugees who fled to East Africa during World War II. Polish exiles at a camp in Uganda. By. It was set up in 1942. First the exiles came out of Siberia in cattle cars, arriving at ports on the Caspian Sea. The 'Market Garden' plan employed all three divisions of First Allied Airborne Army. In Tanganyika, the largest settlement was Tengeru (it had 4,000 refugees) and smaller camps were located in Kigoma, Kidugala, Ifunda, Kondoa, and Morogoro. Dyrektor dr. Hubert Wajs, The State Archive in Przemysl "I recognized the hospital and a group of young girls walking toward the camera. 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