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(HOLOCAUST). Report on the Relief Accorded to Polish Citizens by the Polish Embassy in the U.S.S.R. With Special Reference to Polish Citizens of Jewish Nationality. September, 1941 - April, 1943. Folding map tipped in at end: “The Distribution of Jews, Polish Citizens in the USSR, ” Marked on front: “Not for Public Circulation.” pp. 23, (1). Ex-library. Original printed red wrappers. Lg. 4to. London, Geo. Barber, 1943. SCARCE. “FINAL REPORT OF THE POLISH EMBASSY IN THE USSR COMPILED IN TEHERAN IN AUGUST, 1943.” Polish-Soviet diplomatic relations were severed following the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. After the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, however, the Soviet government re-established diplomatic relations with the Polish government, then in exile in London. An agreement was signed on July 30, 1941, followed by a military accord on August 14. The Poles were allowed to re-establish an Embassy in Moscow, to form an army on Soviet territory for the common struggle against Germany, and to set up a network of Polish citizens deported to the USSR in 1939-1941. Friction soon developed in several areas (the Katyn massacre being most prominent), and April 25, 1943, the Soviet government broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government, and the mission of the Polish Embassy was officially terminated. See Katharina Friedla & Markus Nesselrodt (Eds.) Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival (2001).