"Deportation and Exile Poles in the Soviet Union, 1939-48" by Keith Sword - chapter 3 "The Evacuation of Poles from the USSR During 1942" p67 "The first ship of the sea transport service Karamin left Krasnovodsk on 24 March and reached Pahlevi (present-day Bandar Anzali) on the following day." There is no source next to "Karamin" however, in the same paragraph source #31 is listed. This source is listed on pages 218 and 219. "PRO FO371 32630. "Report on Evacuation of Poles from Pahlevi, 25 March-25 April' by Lt-Col. A. Ross. (hereafter 'Ross report'), p.2. The report is dated 3 June 1942 and is one of three reports on the 1942 evacuations that Ross compiled. Ross who was a Russian speaker (his mother was Russian) and also spoke some Polish, served in the Highland Light Infantry and was, at this time, Officer in Charge of the British Base Evacuation Staff at Pahlevi. When he returned to Pahlevi in August to supervise the second evacuation of Poles, he arrived as an official of the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration (MERRA) which shortly before had taken over responsibility for the reception and onward movement of all Polish civilian refugees." Sword's book has a 7 page "Select Bibliography." Wladyslaw's Wojcik's book "Polish Spirit" is not mentioned. However, this may just be a matter of publication dates.
My Dad left notes on the" Battle of Bzura" his wounds, hospital stay,German arrest papers, escape to Lwow with the help of 2 military school friends. He summed up the family's Siberia experience in one sentence, documents and heartbreaking pictures. Research is cathartic!
Regards, Ewa D. - Nevada, USA
