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Between 1942-1945, over 116,000 Polish refugees immigrated to Iran. Learn more about their motivations to relocate and life in Iran during the war.
8 gru 2016 · From across the Soviet Union, thousands of starving men, women and children displaced from Poland, slowly made their way to a hope of refuge in Iran.
3 cze 2017 · Thousands of Poles sought shelter in Iran during World War II, but today Poland has slammed the door on refugees.
27 cze 2019 · Captured as war prisoners by the Russian Army in East Poland during WWII, a group of Polish citizens spent several difficult years working in forced labor camps in Russia before migrating to Iran following an agreement between the Russians and the Allies.
In his 1983 ilm A Lost Requiem, Khosrow Sinai, an Iranian documentary-ilm director, traces the legacy of Polish life in Iran during that period, contributing to our understanding of how Polish women were viewed at the time: “Polish maids were sought by well-to-do Iranian ladies who wanted to learn makeup and Western fashions from their ...
Polish women played an important role in the delivery of aircraft with Stefania Wojtulanis and Anna Leska paving the way in January 1941. In 1942 Jadwiga Piłsudska joined them and initially delivered training aircraft and then progressed to delivering fighters and later twin engined bombers.
20 sie 2020 · Out of the 40,000 civilians who arrived in Iran, 6123 joined the Polish Women’s Auxiliary Service and a thousand girls went to the female equivalent of the Harczerze (Boy Scouts), the Ochotniczki. In addition, 1683 Polish Jews traveled directly to Palestine by sea.
