By Robert Weiss, Palo Alto, California © copyright 1997-1998:
Text by Robert Weiss, web presence by FEEFHS, all rights
reserved This is the text of a lecture given by Robert Weiss at
the FEEFHS Convention, Salt Lake City in September 1997. The
following is a roster of the 500 Polish children who were
removed from Poland and sent to an orphanage in the Union of
South Africa, where they remained until after the conclusion of
the Second World War. There is great interest on the part of
Holocaust survivors in determining their origins, especially
difficult task when information on their parents or their place
of origin is unknown. I hope the publication of this list may
help in their search. On 17 September 1939, two weeks after the
German invasion of Poland, Soviet troops swiftly occupied the
eastern half of Poland and, after a plebiscite, annexed the area
to the Ukraine and Belorussia. Beginning in the winter of
1939-40 Soviet authorities deported over a million Poles, many
of them children, to the various prov