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New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children
The Zhdanov, overloaded with Polish refugees, took them from Krasnovodsk in the Soviet Union across the Caspian Sea to Pahlevi, Iran, in 1942. Many didn't survive the journey and died on board due to exhaustion, deprivation and disease from the years in Soviet forcedlabour camps
The Zhdanov, overloaded with Polish refugees, took them from Krasnovodsk in the Soviet Union across the Caspian Sea to Pahlevi, Iran, in 1942. Many didn't survive the journey and died on board due to exhaustion, deprivation and disease from the years in Soviet forcedlabour camps