This story is featured in Episode 47
This is a continuation of the story we started in Episode 46.
In order to answer the quesion: What do Poles have to do with Iran, India and Africa – when and how did they find themselves there?, POLcast talked with a person who went through this experience – Irene Tomaszewski from Ottawa, whom POLcast listeners know from our previous conversation about Cosmopolitan Review (CR) online magazine in Episode 6. Irene Tomaszewski is a writer and editor of CR. She is the co-author, with Tecia Werbowski, of “Codename Żegota: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Occupied Europe,” published by Praeger in 2010, and translator /editor of “Inside a Gestapo Prison: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska” published by Wayne State University Press in 2005.
On this story page, accompanying Part 1 of the interview (the Soviet Union, Persia, and India), you can find many links and information.
Below are links to Irene Tomaszewski’s articles on Part 2 of the story – its African chapter – which appeared in Cosmopolitan Review:
February 1940: Exile, Odyssey, Redemption
When Rhinos Roamed the Polish Prairie: The Exotic Homeland of Poles in Africa
In the Shade of the Baobab Tree
Also,
Amanda Chalupa‘s articles:
Once Upon a Time in Africa… – about the reunions of the Under the Baobab Tree Club in Poland
