Deportations and distribution of Polish citizens of the Mosaic faith in the territories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1943
Deportations and distribution of Polish citizens of the Mosaic faith in the territories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1943

Summary/Abstract: The presented article addresses the history of the Second Polish Republic’spolitical relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1943.The study aims to characterize the mass deportations and the distributionof Polish citizens in the territory of the Soviet Union, with emphasis on thepopulation of the Mosaic faith. The statistical method was used to analyzeand assess the fundamental issues related to the exploration of the Jewishpopulation against the background of the national structure of Poland in theyears 1918-1939, mass deportations of the people of the Eastern Borderlandsby the Soviet authorities in 1940-1941, and the areas of the Soviet state wherepeople from the occupied territories of the Second Polish Republic were de-ployed. The substantive considerations also indicated that mass deportationactions and everyday life on “inhuman land” reached not only Poles but alsoPolish citizens of the Mosaic faith.

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