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After the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east in 1939, many thousands of Polish families were deported to Siberian forced labour camps. There they not only faced bitter cold but constant hunger. Then Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the families that were now allowed to leave. In many cases, only their children made it all the way to safety in Iran. Polish orphans were scattered around the world and a group of 700 would end up travelling to the small island on the other side of the world.
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