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Jewish Refugees, Local Jews, and Soviet Jewish Functionaries in Soviet-Annexed Western Belorussia, 1939–1941
P. 23–52.
Following the division of the territory of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939, the USSR gained more than 12 million former Polish citizens, among which some 10 percent were Jews.1 Further, the actual number of Jews in the newly annexed region increased with the arrival of refugees from the Generalgouvernement (part of the Polish territory occupied by the Third Reich). The vast majority of these were Jews who fled to Soviet territory to save themselves from Nazi persecution. The article is devoted to this historical subject