![]() ![]() The vast majority of these refugees remained in Soviet-occupied Poland. When the Soviets annexed eastern Poland, about 300,000 Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland were trapped. ![]() ![]() Polish refugees in eastern Poland faced the prospect of a long exile from home. After the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Polish government fled the country and established a government-in-exile in London. Most took only what they could carry.īecause they had fled so suddenly, few refugees made contingency plans or took the time to prepare adequately for a long journey. They traveled on foot or by any available transport-cars, bicycles, carts, or trucks-clogging roads to the east. Many of the refugees fled without a specific destination in mind. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fled the advancing German army into eastern Poland, hoping that the Polish army would halt the German advance in the west. ![]()
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