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Poland honours Australian grandmother for wartime efforts

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A grandmother who endured deportation from occupied Poland to remote Siberia in the Soviet Union during the Second World War has been honoured in Melbourne by the Polish government.


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By Phillippa Carisbrooke

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A grandmother who endured deportation from occupied Poland to remote Siberia in the Soviet Union during the Second World War has been honoured in Melbourne by the Polish government.


The 95-year-old was among around a million Poles who spent years in exile under horrendous conditions.


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