Survivors of an icy hell On 30 October 1944, the American transport ship USS General George M. Randall entered Wellington Harbour in New Zealand, carrying 733 Polish children who had <a ...

In 2022, the Polish Ministry of Education and Science ... "We are very proud that our children want to be on the right side of history, to defend our country, and to be patriotic," said Monika ...

Bernardine Sister Jacynta points to her name on a list of Polish children refugees who were transported to India in 1942 during World War II. (BILL UHRICH - READING EAGLE) “We were in the same ...

During WWII hundreds of abandoned Polish children were brought to squalid Soviet orphanages. This would have condemned them to a bleak future, but a kind-hearted maharaja unexpectedly came to their ...

Polish refugees arrive in Wellington on board the General Randall. Photo / Alexander Turnbull Library The days were long and exhausting. In September 1944, more than 700 children and 105 adult ...

Polish children who grew up eating cebularz from Jewish bakeries still wanted cebularz when they grew up, even if the baker was no longer Jewish. “If you used to eat something from childhood ...