Z dziejów internowanych Polaków w Związku Sowieckim: Łagier nr 270 w Borowiczach
Streszczenie
After the Soviet troops’ entrance into the former Eastern territories of Poland, the
members of the Polish independence conspiracy were touched by mass repressions. The same
process started on different regions of so called „Lublin Poland”. The Poles were placed in
prisons and camps. They were deported far inside the Soviet Union after the research led by
the NKVD officers.
One of the largest concentrations of the interned Home Army (Armia Krajowa) soldiers
was placed in Labours’ Group No 270 in Borowicze (region Novogrod). Almost 6000 of the Poles stayed there in the years of 1944-1949. The highest number of interned lived there
between 1944 and 1946 - 4893 persons.
High mortality (almost 13% in 1945) was caused by low food ration, exhausting work
(10-12 hours per day), lack of suitable sanitary-higicnic conditions and basic medicines. The
physical and psychological health of interned persons was devastated. They were told to work
in coal mines, industry factories and field-works. The Soviet authorities lowered simultaneously
the quantity of food, did not secure suitable winter and working clothes and prohibited the
correspondence with families of interned persons.
The Labours in Borowicze are said to have one of the worst existence conditions, where
about 600 of Home Army soldiers died. Most of Polish left the labour in 1946. The next
ones that came in 1947 from another places. They were released in the years of 1947-1949.
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