School Class from Grossboschpol

ID: 581 ~ Source: https://reiseleiter-leba.eu/en.html ~ Creator: Government of Gross Boschpol, near contemporary Lebork, Poland. ~ Date: ca. 1940s
This file appears in: Evacuated to the Countryside
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Photograph of a class of children from Gr. Boschpol, Poland. Despite a number of sources identifying this location, it no longer seems to be called by this name in contemporary maps. This part of Poland was a long-disputed territory during World War I and World War II.

This file appears in: Evacuated to the Countryside

By Eugene Kimling
Editor's Note: When the war intensified, the Nazi regime sent school kids into the countryside, and Eugene began to live away from his family. Eugene lived with a group of boys near the Polish border. “We were housed in a youth hostel in the village…