The Polish population, both civilian and military, was evacuated to Iran from the Soviet Union in two stages from March to September 1942. Migration expert Julia Devlin agrees with Durand's findings. Ukrainian Peredmova Vasylia Markusia) 403st. (0-17) 326-84, 326-70 In Eastern Africa, six permanent Polish refugee settlements were established: four in Tanganyika (Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda, Kidugala) and two in Uganda (Masindi and Koja). 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). Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from Refugees in Poland were, until 2022, a relatively small group. Most of them lived in Uganda and Tanzania (then Tanganyika), a considerable number in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) and Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) and some in . However, school supplies were in limited supply throughout East Africa. The expected end of the war limited further evacuations. Due to financial reasons, it was decided to limit the number of Polish settlements, leaving only two in Tengeru (Tanganyika) and Koja (Uganda). The pace of evacuation of Polish refugees from Iran to Africa was high. + Copies of insurance death claims from the Polish Roman Catholic Union of Korespondencja w sprawie pomocy charytatywnej, zaproszenia For tens of thousands the Soviet Union became their final resting place before the war's end. They then constructed temporary mud and thatch huts. Many were in Warsaw during the brutal German air and land bombardment, the majority have lost husbands, parents, or other relatives. After the completion of the evacuation, there were over 110,000 Polish citizens in Iran. Includes index. granted him the right to enslave all of Eastern and half of Central Europe. In time, various Polish institutions, including 24 schools serving some 3,000 students, were established in Iran and several. A Polish press, located in Palestine and Iran, printed the much-needed educational materials used in refugee schools throughout the Middle East. Zaproszenia ze strony Komitetu Narodowego Amerykanw Polskiego Pochodzenia, Ko?a Oficerw Rezerwy w Nowym Jorku. Often it was not accurate, especially as far as dates 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. About one third of the civilians were children. [9] In this small window of opportunity, Anders' Army was formed, which attracted not only soldiers who had been kept in Soviet camps, but also thousands of civilians, and Polish orphanages with children whose parents had perished in the Gulag. UNHCR also aims to improve durable solutions such as local integration opportunities and increase public awareness of refugees and asylum issues. This utter lack of concern brought about a crisis of unimaginable proportions. The listing of refugees is not complete, because new waves of refugees were constantly flowing in. 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. PHOTO | UGANDA NATIONAL ARCHIVES. T.3. Language--U. Vinnipeh, 1969. The housing was primitive: dwellings made of clay, with roofs made of grass and banana leaves. July 30, 1941, provided for the release of all Poles in Soviet exile as It was set up in 1942. The list of Polish refugees residing in areas of East Africa and Rhodesia was prepared by the Polish Red Cross in Nairobi in 1943. Information onsurname meaning, frequency, and distribution in Poland. The British authorities were also preparing for their arrival in Africa. 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. Union under the provisions of that tenuous "amnesty" of 1941. 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. There was a mast with a huge Polish flag, and the White Eagle on the gate."[12]. (Roman Kryk, red.) On March 19, 1942, General Wadysaw Anders ordered the evacuation of Polish soldiers and civilians who lived next to army camps. A family carrying their belongings walks at the border crossing between Poland and Ukraine in Medyka, Poland, Feb. 24, 2022, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized an invasion of Ukraine. There, all were divided into several groups and began their education. They also kept some small livestock such as chicken. In the Kidugala settlement, 798 Poles lived near the deserted post-German Protestant mission. UNHCR's main objectives in Poland are to monitor access to territory and reception conditions as well as advocate for an efficient and protection-sensitive asylum system and related policies. ul. America. The Kondoa settlement had 430 people, who lived in twenty barracks built of clay. That was when Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact that divided several eastern European. The Polish consulates in the USSR issued in-land temporary passports for those being evacuated: These had to be presented at the border crossings in order to proceed. Polish evacuees had to travel by train to Krasnovodsk, where they took a ship across the Caspian Sea to Iran. The State Archive in Rzeszw First the exiles came out of Siberia in cattle cars, arriving at ports on the Caspian Sea. The little known story of the Polish refugees who fled to East Africa during World War II. The food was delivered: rice, flour, meat, salt, sugar, tea, and some coffee. He reveals them in his book "Flight Across the Sea." The relief assistance afforded Two hostels were also established: one in Island Bay for girls, the other in Lyall Bay for boys. The first group of an estimated 17,000-19,000 Polish refugees arrived in Africa around 1942. The Jewish population of 8,700,000 was trapped under the control of the Berlin government; at least sixty percent (or about 5,100,000) were exterminated by the Germans during World War II. List: Red Cross Polish Refugees The list of Polish refugees residing in areas of East Africa and Rhodesia was prepared by the Polish Red Cross in Nairobi in 1943. "They were young, and these intercultural encounters have shaped their humanity.". Residents of Tanganyika, on their own initiative, helped newcomers from Poland to settle in the new country. The Polish press developed (the biggest titles: "Pole in Africa" and "Voice of Poland", and a number of newspapers published in settlements), and even Polish-language radio programmes broadcast from Nairobi. 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. Illnessestyphoid, dysentery, no restrooms in cars. Workshops and village industries were started. Copies of 65s. By. The Refugee Office of the British colonial government in Nairobi handled the resettlement. 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. During World War Two, close to 20,000 Polish people found refuge in African countries. 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. They deported hundreds of thousands of Poles, including many Jews, in four waves to forced labor camps in remote Russian regions such as Siberia and Kazakhstan. concerns and construction projects in Southern Rhodesia. The government of Mexico did not finance their staymoney came from the funds of a special Polish-British-American committee. Migration to and from countries in Southern Africa 1 is driven largely by the pursuit of economic opportunities, political instability and increasingly, environmental hazards. Eventually, they migrated mostly to Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. Africa provided another safe harbor for the Poles. PERIODICALS camp) Poland, Archives: Both settlements had hospital facilities run by Polish doctors and nurses. It is a miracle that we survived, with thousands dead.[12]. In Tanganyika, the largest settlement was Tengeru (4,000 refugees) and smaller camps were located in Kigoma, Kidugala, Ifunda, Kondoa, and Morogoro. 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. By the end of 1943, 33,000 refugees were transferred from Iran to other countries. In Eastern Africa, six permanent Polish refugee settlements were established: four in Tanganyika (Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda, Kidugala) and two in Uganda (Masindi and Koja). [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. (Vydano u spivpratsi z Fundatsiieiu Doslidzhennia Lemkivshyny. The main street of the camp was named after General Tadeusz Br-Komorowski. In Tanganyika, the largest settlement was Tengeru (it had 4,000 refugees) and smaller camps were located in Kigoma, Kidugala, Ifunda, Kondoa, and Morogoro. US membership $20; Canadian membership is $25. In addition to the permanent settlements, several temporary camps were created, including in Morogoro, Kigoma, Dar es Salaam, Iringa and Tosamaganga in Tanganyika. http://www.videofact.com/english/samples/E_2/E19_part1.html. When Canadian Jonathan Durand traveled to Africa for the first time as a 20-year-old, he experienceda strange sense of being at home, an odd feeling for a young white man. There were already 22 camps, with 18,000 people who like us had gone through different places of exile in the USSR, scattered across British Africafrom Kenya to Cape Colony.[12]. 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. t.3/4, 1995. Further Polish transports went to India by sea, from the port of Ahvaz to Bombay. Przemyslu Poland, The State Archive in Rzeszow Archiwum 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. . Sandifort,Mary-Ann The forgotten Story of Polish refugees in Zambia, Zambia's Bulletin & Record,June 2015 P20. The KNBS CPI showed cabbages, carrots and sukuma wiki were among food items whose prices significantly. 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 had travelled via Russia, Persia, the Middle East to East Africa where, together with other Polish refugees they will build their own settlements. knows. After the first evacuation, Polish-Soviet relations deteriorated and the Soviet government began arresting Polish officials. The Polish migration to Africa has its roots in an event from August 1939. Regards, Richard P. From Videofact International, Documentary Press, here is Part 1: Sorokowski, Andrew. In Northern Rhodesia, 245 evacuees were accepted for permanent residence. Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox in Poland and Czechoslovakia. In August 1945 the number of Polish refugees in Northern Rhodesia was 3,419 of which 1,227 stayed in camps in the capital Lusaka, 1,431 in Bwana Mkubwa at the Copperbelt,164 in Fort 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. Ukraintsi v Pol'shi pislia Druhoi Svitovoi Viiny 1944-1984. In August 1942, two schools were created, for younger (aged 8-15) and older scouts. According to a January 15, 1943, note from Beria to Stalin, 389,041 Polish citizens were freed as a result of that "amnesty.". Peter Fraser and Countess Wodzicka with Polish children (Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-003634-F) Over 800 Polish refugees seeking safety from war-torn Europe disembarked in Wellington. 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. imprisoned about 500,000 Poles during 1939-1941, including former officials, But those the Soviets only arrested and inprisoned were lucky. [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. Language--U. Krakiv, 1995. 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. Historian Erik Lindner takes a long look back to discover answers to this question. 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. The Koja settlement covered an area measuring over 700 acres and was located on several hills overlooking the lake. Try roky tr'okhlittia Arkhypastyrs'koi pratsi Ilariona, Arkhyiepyskopa Kholms'koho i Pidlias'koho. Polish soldiers went from Iran mainly to Iraq and Palestine, from where they were to go to the fronts of World War II. 20sm. They also murdered about 65,000 Poles in this terror.2, In one notorious massacre, in incredibly cold calculation, the NKVD-the Soviet secret police--systematically executed possibly 14,471 former polish officers, including political leaders, government officials, 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. No wonder then that the estimates among Germans themselves for the human cost of the expulsion from the German eastern territories varies from 800,000 to 3,200,000 dead.29 Even lower figures are available. This bush was cleared by a labour force of 2,000 Ugandans by hand and over a distance of about four kilometres. The clusters of Polish refugees also arose in both Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. 4. In South Africa alone there were 18 Polish schools with about 1,800 students in attendance. Young Polish women living in exile in Uganda in the 1940s, as the Second World War raged in Europe. Zustriczi: kwartalnik ukrainski (wersja polskojezyczna). 22, 1941. 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. By the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of them overseas, operating in the European theatre, the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre . There was also a simple apprenticeship system for the youth. After the Polish Army had left the Soviet Union, the attitude of the Soviets towards the remaining Poles worsened. Altogether, 257,660 citizens of the Second Polish Republic (190,942 adults and 66,718 kids) received the passports; 1,583 refused and were sent either to prisons or gulag. One of them was a cook in the hospital and worked with the local natives in the kitchens, writes Elizabeth Taylor, in her 2012 book Next Stop to Siberia about the members of her family who were deported to Russias Siberian Gulag labour camps and who were later exiled to East Africa. The Polish Examination Board established examinations for students. 22sm. Copies of Haller's Army Additional Polish transports arrived in late 1943. "African countries were on their way to independence and didn't want reminders of colonial rule," said Devlin. Exiled to Siberia. And the most infamous German death camps had been located in Poland. [18] In late 1942 and early 1943, Polish camps in Iran were located at Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Ahvaz. Trukhan, Myroslav. http://www.mapywig.org/m/wig500k/MAPA_POLSKI_1_500_000_PRZEMYSL_12_WYDANIE_LOTNICZE.jpg The date is May 2000 and it comes 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.. Archiwum Akt Nowych Thousands died along the way to centers of the newly formed Polish army, mostly due to an epidemic of dysentery that decimated men, women, and children.[10]. list of polish refugees in east africa and rhodesia. it housed several camps for the thousands of orphaned Polish children, it found out about the arrival of the transport they rallied around the exiles Recently, there has been renewed interest among historians and local authorities to highlighting the role of East Africans in the Second World War. The next groups arriving in October were directed to Tengeru, Kondoa, Ifunda and Kidugala. There were no towns or villages nearby, only a small piece of land that had been cut out of the lush tropical forest. and Polish archives On January 16, 1943, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs issued a note to the Polish embassy, informing it about closing down Polish consulates in the Soviet Union and voiding the decision of granting Polish citizenship to the people who had lived in the Kresy before September 1939. Unlike elsewhere, upon graduation the teens were placed either in schools operated by religious orders or in technical colleges. It was in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, where the exiles got their first glimpse of Africans close up. Ul. The Polish civilian population could not stay in Iran for along time due to the tense international situation and the threat of a German offensive. During the second evacuation, 69,247 persons left the Soviet Union, including 25,501 civilians (9,633 children). The Millenium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine. 00-202 Warszawa Poles in Mexico were not allowed to leave their camps. Records Several scout groups, schools, training centers, a Women's Auxiliary Service, and an Officers' Legion were established. . Sanok-Przemysl-Belz area. My two aunts lived in Koja Camp for several years and spoke of their time there with great affection. west of L'vivin the [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. First schools were opened in Tehran, where after one year there were ten Polish educational institutions. 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. Gadam. That was when Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact that divided several eastern European countries, including Poland, into German and Soviet spheres of interest. 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. He was even more grateful at Yalta, when the Western Allies If this site was helpful to you, please consider making a donation to keep it going. They ended up in Iran, India, Palestine, New Zealand, and British Africa, as well as in Mexico. This was The last Pole, Mr. Edward Wjtowicz, was buried in Tengeru in 2015. But Iran proved unable to care for such large numbers of refugees, causing the British government to move Polish civilians to other British colonies. Expulsion from Poland - beginning of wandering. Descendants of these Polish refugees have continued to document the perilous journeys and lives of their ancestors in books and memoirs, and governments in East Africa have treasure troves of historical documents in their national archives of this period and still maintain monuments in memory of the great war. Shvaipol't Fiol'.24sm. In Palestine, the camps for the over 5,000 refugees transferred there were located in Nazareth, Rehovot, Ain-Karem, and Barbara. 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. Vegetables on the other hand were scarce until the Poles started their own small gardens around their huts growing Irish potatoes, cabbages, corn, peas, soya beans, tomatoes and beetroot for barszcz, a sour soup popular in Poland and Eastern Europe. We were transported on board a warship, through Persian Gulf. Ukrainian Studies Fund. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African . It lasted until 16 January 1943, at which point it was effectively revoked. The dead were not included in the census, because . He ordered his military commanders to use the utmost ferocity in merciless killing Polish men, women, and children. Scouting was popular. 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. t.208. Their home became a deserted hacienda in Santa Rosa, near Leen. LUDNO CYWILNA I SIEROTY POLSKIE PO AMNESTII 12 SIERPNIA 1941 ROKU. 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. Their ships docked at Mombasa, the Kenyan port, and from there they scattered in various directions in East and Southern Africa - from the Equator to the Cape of Good Hope. One of the administrators lived in a building that also had a community centre where films were shown. When using our website, the cookie files are downloaded onto your device. One of the largest refugee groups in Africa was some twenty thousand Polish people, who stayed from 1942 to 1950 in 20 refugee camps spread over Britain's African colonies. Together, they immigrated to Canada. In addition, your use of our website is tantamount to your consent to the processing of your personal data provided by electronic means. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February . After a short stay, they too were dispatched across the border to Colonia Santa Rosa. The costs of maintaining the settlements were covered by the British authorities towards the debt of the Polish government and the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare reporting to the government in exile in London. Among the deportees 52 percent were Poles, 30 percent were Jews, and 18 percent were Ukrainians and Byelorussians. The majority refused to return to the country. 3 prymirnyky. 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. Like the Nazis in the west of the country, the Soviet Union began to carry out ethnic cleansing. Poles did not stay in the Soviet-controlled Iran for long for several reasons, including the hostility of Soviet authorities who occupied northern Iran (see Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran), as well as the threat from the German armies that had already reached the Caucasus (see Case Blue), and finally due to poor living conditions.[13]. 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. The Polish migration to Africa has its roots in an event from August 1939. Tehran was a gate, through which we were sent, in groups, to different parts of the world. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The main wave of Polish refugees sailed away from Iran to Africa. Approximately 600 Polish refugees were taken to Abercorn in contingents. During and afterWorld War II, his Polish grandmother Kazia Gerech had lived in a refugee camp in what is present-day Tanzania the stories of her childhood near the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro had burned into his soul. The settlements were divided into sections and groups, and the heads of departments of education, pastoral care, health care, culture and work were appointed. Warszawa Poland, The Head Office of State Archives This was a small fraction of the approximately 1.7 million Polish citizens who had been arrested by the Soviets at the beginning of the war. who dug up the graves in the Katyn forest, were responsible for the murders. 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. While Gen. Anders' troops were subsequently transferred to Palestine and from there to Iraq, the civilians remained in Iran. 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. ul. And from 1939 to 1941, they deported en mass about 1,6000,000 Poles, including 400,000 Jews. Korespondencja z w?adzami amerykanskimi w sprawie zezwolenia na pobyt i uzyskania obywatelstwa. Panstwowe w Rzeszowie the Poland - Soviet Union Border during 1945 -1950 They were coming from the Middle East. 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 camps were closed and lands reverted to the colonial governments for local peoples settlements or administrative centres, and the graves were maintained for posterity. T.4. Because Show more. A number of such executions actually took place in Konin and other localities. They worked as farmers, and their first transport came through India in October 1943 with 720 people, most of them women and children. Iran and the Polish Exodus from Russia 1942. Moreover, several Polish periodicals were published, Polish amateur theaters were founded, and Polish business enterprises flourished. Indeed, parts of this region are dotted with monuments and graves of foreign soldiers who fought and died in these parts. Zjednoczonych (1941-1942). Some, no doubt, are still there. 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. The British did not have the intention of keeping the Polish refugees in East Africa when it was decided to take them there. The next transfer took place in 195559, after Stalin's death.[21]. Podlesice Zivilarbeiterlager (public servants 492s. 00-263 Warszawa Nothing looked like Poland, but adults in our camp did their best to emphasize our roots. Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. Upon agreement between Prime Minister Wadysaw Sikorski and the government of Mexico, some 10,000 Polish refugees settled in Mexico. 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. maps. Each camp had its own school, clubroom, and theatre. These exiles found temporary refuge in Iran, India, Palestine, New Zealand, Mexico and British East and Southern Africa. But what happened to the rest of the hundreds of thousands of deportees who did not leave with Anders' army? IWM collections, This media is not currently available. [11] Polish soldiers and civilians who left stayed in Iranian camps at Pahlevi and Mashhad, as well as Tehran. It triggered an amnesty for the Poles in the USSR. Some had to travel by land to Ashgabat. 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