First. during the sixteen month campaign in Italy. the 2nd Polish Corps lost 809 officers. Another 10.570 of other ranks were killed or wounded in action. Second. because the Allies gave control of most of Poland to Stalins Soviet Union. officially confirmed at Yalta. Poland. the country they remembered. did not exist. In effect. these Polish survivors became homeless. As a result. they scattered across the world. mostly settling in the USA and Britain. Early in 1950. Ted Nitkiewicz immigrated to the United States and moved in with an uncle in Toledo. Ohio. There was little work available at that time. but he eventually landed a job in Textile Leather factory.
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