Nieznana droga do ojczyzny. Problem transportu repatriantow z Litwy i Ukrainy do Polski

ENAs a result of bilateral agreements, a broadly-shared repatriation operation began during 1944-1946. About one million Borderland people started their journey back to their homeland. On their way home, they faced many problems associated with clerical hostility and malice, human greed, war difficulties, as well as being robbed by demoralized troops and ordinary bandits. I tried to look at the problems faced by repatriates during their journey on the basis of, inter alia, the archives of the General Proxy for Repatriation and the Principal Proxies for the Evacuation. I present the difficulties of days of waiting for a train on the ramps, the pathology of hasty loading and reloading into too few wagons. Above all, however, I focus on the issues of their movement from the Polish Eastern Borderlands to Poland, the difficulties which repatriates faced from railway staff from the initial station in Lithuania or Ukraine, until arrival in the destination cities in Poland. Keywords: Lithuania, Poland, repatriation, Ukraine.