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The Australian Society of Polish Jews and their Descendants present "Saved by Stalin? Polish Jews in the Soviet Union and their Postwar Return to Poland" Presented by Rita Nash.

Webinar 2: "Polish Jews Return to Poland 1945 - 1950"

With the 1939 Nazi Germany invasion of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews fled into the Soviet-occupied Eastern Borderlands of Poland.
Before long, most were declared ‘enemies of the people’ and deported to labour camps to work in appalling and harsh conditions in Siberia and Central
Asia.

The post-war redrawing of the Polish borders resulted in a major repatriation program where Polish citizens in the Soviet Union were sent to populate the newly
acquired Western Borderlands ‘Recovered Territories’.

For less than five years, the surviving remnant of Polish Jews created a viable and vibrant life. However, the onset of Stalinisation coupled with the continued
ancient hatred of antisemitism, meant once more, these few remaining Polish Jews had to flee.

Although forming the bulk of the surviving remnant of the Jews of Poland, until relatively recently, this has been a largely unexplored chapter of the Holocaust
narrative.