O wojennych losach Polaków
On Wartime Paths of Poles

A Letter from the Family Archive

Author(s): Eugeniusz Mancewicz
Contributor(s): Jan Błachnio (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: War World Two; Polish government-in-exile; civil service; Anders’ Army; USSR; deportation
Summary/Abstract: The presented historical source is an extremely interesting letter, written in 1957 by a Polish emigrant, who had held a high-ranking position at the Ministry of Labour and Welfare of the Second Polish Republic. The author writes to his acquaintance describing his wartime path: arrest by the NKVD in Lithuania, imprisonment, exile to the Altai Krai, then his service for the Polish government-in-exile in Slavgorod, Teheran, Isfahan and Beirut, and finally his passage to England, where he made his home after the war.

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