MIGRACJE ŻYDÓW POLSKICH ZE ZWIĄZKU RADZIECKIEGO NA DOLNY ŚLĄSK PO II WOJNIE ŚWIATOWEJ W RELACJACH ICH UCZESTNIKÓW
MIGRATIONS OF POLISH JEWS FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO LOWER SILESIA AFTER WORLD WAR II IN THE ACCOUNTS OF THEIR PARTICIPANTS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents migrations of Polish Jews from USSR to Lower Silesiain memories of their participants. The author uses the terms “repatriation” and “resettlement”,emphasizing their different meanings and the different situation of people returning from theUSSR and leaving the former Polish lands. The source base is interviews conducted by theauthor among members of the Wrocław Jewish community and accounts of Lower SilesianJews found in the Memory and Future Centre. The article focuses on the motivations of peopleapplying for a trip to Poland; the conditions in which the journey took place and attemptsto organize a new life. All adult respondents at that time voluntarily decided to repatriateor resettle and perceived it as the moment of ending the period of chaos and beginning a newstage. Some of the respondents experienced migration several times, and these experiencesstill evoked great emotions in them, affecting the quality of the narrative.

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