Jiří Friedl
doc. PhDr., Ph.D., DSc.
Domestic project
Polish Repatriates and Refugees in Post-War Czechoslovakia
Provider: The Czech Science Foundation
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Project duration:
2017–2019
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Project ID: GA17-01233S
The aim of the project is to analyze the topic of Polish repatriates and refugees in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. The research on repatriates concerns Polish citizens who were found on Czechoslovak territory after the war’s end as well as the organization of mass transit transports that sent hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens from Western occupation zones home through Czechoslovakia. It also discusses movements of a similar scale in the opposite direction: those who were fleeing Poland for political, social or ethnic reasons across Czechoslovakia for the West. The research will be circumscribed to the year 1948, when the repatriation of Polish citizens through Czechoslovakia ended (the repatriation mission from Prague was terminated) as well as, due to the closing of the Western borders, when possibility to flee to the West essentially ended. The subject of study will be set into broader historical context and will represent a case study on the role of Czechoslovakia in postwar migrations.
