To ALL
Report M.E.R.R.A. c/o British Embassy Tehran May 6, 1944
Classified Secret
Written By Colonel A Ross
Distributed to:
Polish Minister of State, Cairo
Polish Legation, Tehran
Polish Civil Delegation
Polish Red Cross Tehran
British Embassy Tehran
One section of this report that I have chosen to send today is on the
deportation and Statistics of Poles Deported to USSR
The report reads as follows "There is no information in the
possession of any other authority than the Soviet Government as to
the number of Poles deported in each flight but it is known that the
deportation of the 25th – 30th June 1940 was the largest."
Dates of deportation:
a. 10th February 1940
b. 13th April 1940
c. 25th –30th June 1940
d. June 1941
Statistics of Poles Deported to USSR
a. In Russia till 1942 evacuated to Persia ( military &
Civilians) 114,000
b. Assistance from Polish Embassy as of April 1943
271,000
c. Beyond Embassy's reach or help in Northern Regions
51,000
d. Conscripted in 1940 into the Red Army
100,000
e. Conscripted into labour battalions throughout USSR
75,000
f. Remaining in gulags & concentration camps not covered by
amnesty 125,000
g. Persihed during whole period of deportations
221,000
h. Escaped from German occupied territories to USSR
25,000
Total 982,000
There are therefore in the USSR at the present time the
following: 982,000
Less died since 1940 -221,000
Less evacuated from USSR -114,000
Total Polish population still in USSR 647,000
The 271,000 above that were receiving assistance from the Polish
Embassy were as follow;
Men Women Children Total
93,114 96,241 76146 266,501 Plus
additional 5,824 who we do not know their domicile.
272,325
The 266,501 is divided as follows:
Christian Poles Jewish Poles Other Nationalities
132,183 or 50% 104,602 or 40% 28,716 or 10%
Of the 114,00 that were evacuated the breakout is as follows:
1st Evacuation Pahlevi Civilians 12,408
Military 31,189
Total 43,597
2nd Evacuation Civilians 26,094
Military 43,746
Total 69,840
Meshed 2,694
Grand Total 116,131
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