THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942-1943

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Description

Object description

One of the girls, Aniela Opalińska from Lwów. In Poland she was a Girl Guide and still wears the belt and carries on the same work camp.

Object description

The Women's Auxiliary Service of the Polish Army in the Middle East was composed of women and girls who were imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag after the German-Soviet Invasion of Poland and were released after signing of the Sikorski -Mayski Agreement in 1941. Practically all of them have tragic stories to tell of privation and suffering. Many of them have lost touch with their families. The tragic side of their lifes is not in evidence at the camp shown in the following pictures. Free once more to help the Allied struggle against Nazism they go about their work with gusto and break into song at the slighest provocation off parade. Some of them were fortunate enough to be able to bring their families with them. Photographs were very likely taken in the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service training camp at Rehovoth, Palestine.

Object Details

Category: Photographs
Related period: Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: Cash, James Allan Johnstone
Rooke, John
No. 1 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Production date: 1942-08-15
Materials: whole: glass
Catalogue number: E 15674
Part of: WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Polish Army
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Army in the Middle East
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II
Polish Armed Forces in the West, Women's Auxiliary Service
Opalińska, Aniela
Associated places

Rehovot, Lydda District, Palestine
Associated subjects

Polish
Associated keywords

Women at War
Associated themes

Polish Army in the Middle East and Italy, 1942-1945
Deportation of the Polish Population from the Soviet Occupied Part of Poland, 1940-1941
Evacuation of the 2nd Polish Corps from the Soviet Union to Persia and Palestine, 1942
Poland 1939-1945
Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945

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