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Saved by Stalin?: trajectories and numbers of Polish Jews in the Soviet Second World War

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In 1939, eastern Poland was absorbed in the Soviet Union as Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Between 150,000 and 300,000 Polish citizens of Jewish background fled from German-occupied territory into the Soviet Union between September 1939 and June 1941. The Soviet Union offered them a harsh but more liveable alternative.

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