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Author Bhattacharjee, Anuradha, author

Title The second homeland : Polish refugees in India / Anuradha Bhattacharjee ; with the Chronicle of Franek Herzog
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover ; Contents; List of Tables ; List of Maps ; List of Photographs ; List of Abbreviations ; List of Appendices ; Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; A Brief Historical Background ; Arrival ; Franek's Odyssey ; Arrival in India ; India Years ; Franek and Tadek in Balachadi ; Home for the Next Few Years ; The Transit Camps and War-duration Domicile ; Franek in Valivade ; A Polish Village on an Indian Riverbank ; Reminiscences and Reflections ; Franek's Epilogue ; Looking Back ; Voices from the Past ; Author's Note ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author
Summary This book documents the passage of the Polish refugees arriving in India from the USSR in 1942. Readers will get an authentic account of their tribulations through the first-person account of a young Polish orphan's hair-raising journey to India and his experiences during the stay. Author Anuradha Bhattacharjee includes a historical perspective culled out from archival documents in India, the UK and Poland. This is a unique mix of a diary, oral history and historical viewpoint placed adjacent to a compilation of archival personal photographs. The book beautifully brings out a little-known aspe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Polish people -- India -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Soviet Union
Refugees -- Soviet Union -- History
Refugees -- India -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Deportation
Polish people
Refugees
India
Poland
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Herzog, Franek, contributor
ISBN 9788132111436
8132111435
9789353881863
9353881862