Correspondence, telegrams, notes, memoranda, clippings, accounts, lists, protocols, reports, inventories, and published materials relating to the evacuation of the war orphans from Russia to Oudtshoorn, the establishment and operation of the Home, and the care and education of the orphans.

In 1942, Polish military authorities in the USSR informed their government in London of the presence of large numbers of orphaned and/or deported Polish children in Russia. The London Government, acting through Consul General Dr. Min. Stanislaw Lepkowski, secured permission from the government of the Union of South Africa to transport 500 of the children to that country. In 1943, after they had been evacuated to Iran, the children were brought to South Africa. The Polish Children's Home (Dom Polskich Dzieci) was organized in Oudtshoorn in 1943 for their temporary accommodation, care, and education. Under the supervision of the South African Department of Social Welfare, as well as of Polish consular and ministry representatives, it reamiend in operation until the summer of 1947.

2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)

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