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Na kocu wiata Polskie sieroty w Nowej Zelandii

Na pocztku II wojny wiatowej, na rozkaz Stalina, ponad pótora miliona Polaków wypdzono ze wschodniej Polski i zesano do obozów przymusowej pracy na Sybir i na inne obszary Zwizku Radzieckiego. W tych warunkach, znaczna cz zesaców zmara lub zagina. 120.000 Polaków ewakuowano do Iranu, w tym okoo 20.000 dzieci. Z czasem dzieci roz esano w róne czci wiata.

Ksika opisuje losy 732 dzieci, w wikszoci sierot, które w 1944 roku wysano z Iranu do Nowej Zelandii. Tymczasowy przytuek, majcy trwa tylko do koca wojny, po Jacie przemieni si dla wikszoci z nich w stay pobyt. Ich wspomnienia po 60-ciu latach mówi o niezwykym yciu w obcym kraju na kocu wiata.

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On 1 November 1944 a total of 733 Polish children and their 105 guardians landed in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. Together they had shared the fate of 1.7 million Poles who had been ethnically cleansed from their homes in eastern Poland by the Russian Secret Police, under Stalin's orders at the start of World War II, and deported in cattle wagons to forced-labour camps thousands of miles away throughout Siberia and the Arctic Circle. Life was brutal subzero temperatures, constant hunger, disease and death surrounded them. 

Of those 1.7 million, 1 million died and 200,000 are still unaccounted for in Stalin's genocide. This group of children, mostly orphans or having lost family members, were the lucky ones. Through the tides of wartime politics they fled from their bondage, found temporary refuge in Iran, and were finally offered a safe and permanent home in New Zealand. 

Their story is one of remarkable survival against all odds in war and successfully integrating into a foreign country. 

This is their book. These are their stories.

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