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polish refugees land in New Zealand
6 Facts
1.An estimated 1.7 million Poles were deported to labour camps in Siberia following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939
2.In 1943 Prime Minister Peter Fraser invited a group of Polish children to New Zealand for the duration of the war.
3. Most of the refugees chose to settle in New Zealand after the war. Relatives joined some in the late 1940s, while a small number returned to Poland.
4.A camp for the children was established near Pahīatua in Wairarapa.
5.most of the former soldiers joined free Polish forces fighting on the Allied side,
6.Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 prompted Joseph Stalin to send over 120,000 Polish prisoners to Iran
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