Overseas adoption - providing new parents in foreign countries, mainly in the West - has been closely related with South Korea since the end of the Korean War, whereas North Korea chose a different solution: temporary commissioned housing/education in...
Overseas adoption - providing new parents in foreign countries, mainly in the West - has been closely related with South Korea since the end of the Korean War, whereas North Korea chose a different solution: temporary commissioned housing/education in the socialist “brethren” states for a few years during and after the war. Poland was one of these very important “brethren” states to which approximately six thousand war-orphans were sent, schooled and brought up. It is said that the orphans had experienced their childhood happily thanks to Polish nursing teachers’ devotional support who were even regarded as “Abozi”(father) and “Omoni”(mother). The phases of repatriation had been completed by the end of 1959 in turns, but their images still remain in the Polish staffs’ memories. Using the various sources that are available, this article is an attempt to retrace their footprints left in Poland.