In the Archive of Memory. The Fate of Poles and Iranians in the Second World War
By Opracowanie zbiorowe
- Release Date: 2020-03-30
- Genre: History
Owing to the
publishing initiative of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the
University of Warsaw, we have received a very important publication
that contributes greatly to documenting the history of the Polish
diaspora and its fate during the Second World War and in the early
postwar period. The volume consists of 14 texts contributed by 14
different people, making it not only a valuable but also interesting
piece of reading. It contains materials of varying character: besides
academic papers there are letters of Iranian ambassadors to Poland and a
Polish ambassador to Iran, as well as personal reminiscences of Poles
from their stay in the „inhuman land. ” (...) These texts deal with
the issue of Polish attitude towards Persians and the reaction of the
indigenous population to the sudden arrival of considerable numbers of
people, both military and civilian. The knowledge about the relations
that were shaping between those two worlds is far from common.
Unexpected and sudden arrival of such great mass of military and Polish
refugees Persians and the Iranian government retained in their kind
memory. Let us be grateful to them for that. Professor Bogdan Skladanek
