Open AccessDeportations and distribution of Polish citizens of the Mosaic faith in the territories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1943
Author(s) -
Zdzisław Cutter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
scientific journal of the military university of land forces
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2545-0719
pISSN - 2544-7122
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.5857
Subject(s) - faith , deportation , politics , population , political science , socialist republic , soviet union , economic history , political economy , law , sociology , immigration , history , demography , theology , philosophy
The presented article addresses the history of the Second Polish Republic’s political relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1943. The study aims to characterize the mass deportations and the distribution of Polish citizens in the territory of the Soviet Union, with emphasis on the population of the Mosaic faith. The statistical method was used to analyze and assess the fundamental issues related to the exploration of the Jewish population against the background of the national structure of Poland in the years 1918-1939, mass deportations of the people of the Eastern Borderlands by the Soviet authorities in 1940-1941, and the areas of the Soviet state where people from the occupied territories of the Second Polish Republic were deployed. The substantive considerations also indicated that mass deportation actions and everyday life on “inhuman land” reached not only Poles but also Polish citizens of the Mosaic faith.