Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Polskie Siły Zbrojne w ZSRR
Polish Armed Forces in the East
Armia Andersa
Anders' Army
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Anders Army, led by commander Władysław Anders, nominated by General Władysław Sikorski, was the Polish Armed Forces in the East from 1941 to 1942, in.
The army was created in the USSR, and provided the bulk of the troops of the Polish II Corps of the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
Anders Army numbered 70,000 soldiers, including 5,000 Jews, mostly volunteers.
At the end of 1942, Anders Army lAnders Army was transferred from Krasnovodsk Красноводск Türkmenbaşy, joining the British High Command in the Middle East, via Iran, Iraq and Palestine.

Joseph Stalin იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი used Anders Army in the Middle Eastern front, as a military occupation force in Iran, after the Anglo-Soviet invasion.
When Anders Army left the Soviet Union on its way to the Middle East, 41,000 combatants and 74,000 civilians, former Polish citizens, families of the soldiers and groups of Jewish children, war orphans, jand Jewish soldiers, left the Soviet Union with Anders Army.
Henry Pavlovich cites "about 115,000 people (including some 37,000 civilians, of whom about 18,300 were children) left the Soviet Union."
The unit was transferred across the Caspian Sea, to the port of Bandar-e Pahlavi, now Bandar-e Anzali.
More troops were transferred, by the overland route from Ashkhabad Aşgabat, to the railhead at Mashhad مشهد, where most of the Jewish soldiers deserted the regiment, and joined the veteran settlement there.
On arrival in Tehran تهران, the children were transferred to Aliyah Bet representatives, who brought them to Palestine as the Tehran Children ילדי טהרן.
Jewish soldiers who deserted Anders Army, contributed to the defense of Palestine, and later, played an important role of in the foundation of TzaHaL צה"ל, the Israel Defense Forces.

When they reached Palestine, most of the Jewish soldiers in Anders Army deserted the regiment, and the mass desertion of the Jewish soldiers was called Anders Aliyah.

In 2006, a memorial to the Anders Army was erected in the Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem.