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John Vachon was in Poland to witness this transformation of almost mythic proportions. Assigned to cover United Nations relief efforts, this American photographer documented in images and letters a nation at the crossroads of the postwar East and West.
The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949 by Wies?aw Rogalski Pdf
When on 22 June 1941, the news reached Spain of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union, it was received with great satisfaction, since they had just come out of a civil war in which the Soviet Unions allies had been defeated, putting an end to plans to impose communism on Spain with the help of the USSR. General Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State, offered to send a volunteer unit to fight on the Eastern Front alongside the German army an offer that was accepted by the German government two days later. While the formation of the Blue Division was already under way, the Spanish Air Force also wanted to participate in the fight against the USSR and promptly began preparations to organise a series of several successive squadrons, each of which would fight at the front for six months. In this story of the fighting on the Eastern Front between the Spaniards and the Soviets, the various missions that the Spanish units were ordered on are covered, and the planes against in which the Spanish fought their war are covered as well. This study recounts the experiences of the five squadrons sent to Russia between 1941 and 1944 to fight the Soviets. The courage and skill of the Spanish drivers and mechanics that helped the pilots achieve a high number of victories are also covered. The five Blue Squadrons that served between October 1941 and March 1944 remained in the combat front for almost 30 months. During these months they carried out 4,944 combat missions, with 611 engagements against the enemy and shot down 164 Soviet aircraft. Among the Spanish pilots, there were 13 aces (when a pilot was verified as having shot down 5 enemy planes he was considered an ace), although the short period of time in which each of the five Blue Squadrons fought in Russia prevented the number of planes shot down by Spanish pilots being as high as that of their German comrades. The planes and emblems used by the five squadrons are also covered through a number of contemporary photographs, complemented by specially commissioned artwork. Noteworthy is the fact is that the Germans agreed to lend their planes to pilots who were nationals of a country that was not at war. As noted above, the Germans appreciated and respected the Spanish pilots for their bravery and flying capability, having fought alongside them during the Spanish Civil War.
Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46 by Norman Davies,Antony Polonsky Pdf
This book is the first to deal with the impact on the Jews of the area of the sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and 1941 affected the development of Polish-Jewish relations under Nazi rule and in the USSR. The role of these conflicts both in the Anders army and in the Communist-led Kosciuszko division and 1st Polish Army is investigated, as well as the part played by Jews in the communist-dominated regime in Poland after 1944.
The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949 by Wiesław Rogalski Pdf
This book describes the methods and the legacy of the Polish resettlement programme following the Second World War & the establishment of the Polish Resettlement Corps.
This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust: it is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce's Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation. The book focuses in particular on Jewish-Polish relations in the Kielce region; the deportation of the Jews of Kielce and its surrounding areas to the Treblinka death camp; the difficulties faced by those attempting to help and save them; and daily life in the Small Ghetto from September 1942 until late May 1943.
This book reexamines the situation of Jews who after the liquidation of ghettos were hiding in the villages of the Kielce-Sandomierz region, and the attitude of local Christian people and partisans towards these Jews. A fresh perspective is contributed by the author's anthropological approach to the newly discovered field and archival sources.
Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in 1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on behalf of new generations.
