Certificate of evacuation to Poland by Maria Pisuk

The certificate for evacuation to Poland supplemented the evacuation card constituting the basis for the resettlement of the Polish population –living in the former territories of the Second Republic of Poland which were to be incorporated into the USSR– to lands located within the post-1945 borders. In the document, we can find the resettlers' basic data, such as first name, surname, last place of residence, date and place of birth, nationality ('Jewish'), as well as information about family members who were also supposed to participate in the transport. It is worth paying attention to the relatively distant dates of issuing both documents and the discrepancy as to the planned purpose of resettlement. According to the information contained in the evacuation card of 15 March 1945, the family was to be directed to Łódź. According to the certificate issued on 4 May 1946, the Pisiuks were supposed to go to Warsaw and, effectively, they settled in Olsztyn. In view of the scale of the repatriation operation, similar changes in the direction of resettlement, as well as the long intervals between the time of issuing the evacuation card and the actual resettlement date, did not constitute anything extraordinary.

Marta Frączkiewicz