“The Soviets deported the Polish people and the Western historians deported the event from history.” During the World War II, tens of thousands of Polish children became orphans and homeless. Here's how many of them found a shelter in India
In late August, under the blazing sun, I walked through the streets of Warsaw’s Zoliborz neighbourhood.
“I was almost four years old when I was thrown into the infinity of the Kazakh steppe,” Chendyski told me as we sat in his Warsaw apartment. “In the Kazakh steppe, so poor and primitive, there is nothing but a lonesome landscape.” “People were heading south from all directions: from Kazakhstan, from Siberia and other parts of the Soviet Union, far east using all modes of transport,” Chendyski explained. His childhood memories are filled with images of emaciated women, men and children who were waiting in collection centres in Ashgabad , to embark on a journey home.
Evacuation ships crowded with Polish refugees, cramped boats with children or women, filled the Caspian Sea. The photos which document the evacuation from the USSR resemble today’s images off the coast of Lampedusa or Lesbos.
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