Saved by Stalin?: trajectories and numbers of Polish Jews in the Soviet Second World War
TitleSaved by Stalin?: trajectories and numbers of Polish Jews in the Soviet Second World War
Author
Call number940.53180947/0006
Object number07100b
Place of publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
PublisherWayne State University Press
Year of publication
2017
Physical descriptionpp95-131
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780814342671
NotesArticle from the book 'Shelter from the Holocaust: rethinking Jewish survival in the Soviet Union' pp95-131
Description
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.