An insight into the lives of Polish internees in Switzerland
About 12,000 Polish soldiers fled to Switzerland in 1940. They had been fighting on the side of the allies when the Germans conquered France. The Poles were interned and used as manual labour at a time when many Swiss men were away in the army. The Polish Museum in Rapperswil organised a reunion of former Polish internees and their offspring, to shed more light on this period of history. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
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