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EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942 - There are touching scenes of reunion. People recognise each other; families are reunited. Some who were thought to be dead are found again. A little girl is kissing her grandmother, 6 November 1942. When Poland was attacked by the Nazis on 1 September, the Red Army also invaded on 17 September 1939. As a result of the Soviet invasion enormous numbers of Polish soldiers and civilians were deported by the NKVD to various locations in the Soviet Union; many ended up in the Gulag camps in Siberia, others were send to exile in K

EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942 - There are touching scenes of reunion. People recognise each other; families are reunited. Some who were thought to be dead are found again. A little girl is kissing her grandmother, 6 November 1942. When Poland was attacked by the Nazis on 1 September, the Red Army also invaded on 17 September 1939. As a result of the Soviet invasion enormous numbers of Polish soldiers and civilians were deported by the NKVD to various locations in the Soviet Union; many ended up in the Gulag camps in Siberia, others were send to exile in K Stock Photo
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EVACUATION OF POLISH CIVILIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PERSIA, 1942 - There are touching scenes of reunion. People recognise each other; families are reunited. Some who were thought to be dead are found again. A little girl is kissing her grandmother, 6 November 1942. When Poland was attacked by the Nazis on 1 September, the Red Army also invaded on 17 September 1939. As a result of the Soviet invasion enormous numbers of Polish soldiers and civilians were deported by the NKVD to various locations in the Soviet Union; many ended up in the Gulag camps in Siberia, others were send to exile in Kazakhstan.After the German invasion of the Soviet Union and signing of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement arrangements were made for the release of the Poles in Russian captivity, both civilians and military. Persia was the country to which many of them went at first. Transit camps were opened for them (Pahlevi, Mashhad, Tehran) where they were well fed and hospitalised. Then they were given the oportunity to join the fighting services (2nd Polish Corps) or to take up other useful war work.These photographs show a typical Polish refugee family - one of the lucky ones that survived and didn't become separated - tramping over mountains from Russia into Persia, their reception at a camp etc. Their name is Kowalski which can be translated into English as Smith. ,