Osadnik
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Osadniks were veterans of the Polish Army and civilians who were given or sold state land in the Kresy territory ceded to Poland by Polish-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1921. The Polish word was also a
Polish military settler from Osada Krechowiecka in the Wołyń Voivodeship, 1928
Cover of a land allotment document from 1923; all together some 8000 people received land in the eastern Voivodeships of Poland
Osadnik's family from Osada Krechowiecka, 1931
Special settlements in the Soviet Union were the result of population transfers and were performed in a series of operations organized according to social class or nationality of the deported. Resettl
Osadnik
…Polish, but there were 10,000 Ukrainians, 11,000 Belarusians and 2,000 others. In gulag paperwork, osadniks were in a separate category of deportees: "special settlers — 'osadniks' and 'foresters'". Then, three more waves of Polish deportations were carried out and classified with different categories. The largest…
A dwelling typical to some deportees forcibly resettled to Siberia in a museum in Rumšiškės, Lithuania
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