WYDAWNICTWA WYCHODŹCÓW POLSKICH NA WSCHODZIE W OKRESIE DRUGIEJ WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ
PUBLICATIONS OF POLISH EXILES IN THE EAST DURING THE WORLD WAR II

Summary/Abstract: The author firstly describes the main routes of Polish wanderings, which in the days of the World War II led to the countries of the Middle East. He described the way which in the years 1940–1941 led from Hungary and Romania to Liban, Syria, Palestine, and Egipt, as well as the route of Polish convicts and exiles, who left the Soviet Union together with the so-called “Polish Army” of General Władysław Anders, to find their haven in Iran and in other Eastern countries. As a result of this wandering 125–127 thousand citizens of the Second Polish Republic found themselves in the Middle East; they were mostly Polish, but also Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Tartars and Lithuanians. Further, the author seeks to explain, how the aforementioned exile community managed to establish its own press and book publishing houses. He also indicated the sizes and the most important features of exile publishing activities in this area, showing the most characteristic examples of press and book production. He put it in the context of activities of Polish scientific institutions in the East. The author closes his reflections with a significant passage from an address made by Professor Stanisław Kościałkowski during the inauguration of Polish Studies in Beirut in 1946.

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