State Repatriation Office


Państwowy Urząd Repatriacyjny was a Polish communist governmental body created by Polish Committee of National Liberation on 7 October 1944 to oversee the repatriations in Poland. At first, PUR oversaw repatriations of Poles from Kresy, and from 1945, repatriations of Germans from Regained Territories. Also, in 1945, PUR powers were limited, as some it its competences were transferred to the newly created post of the General Representative of the Government for Repatriation.
Managers: Władysław Wolski, Michał Sapieha, Mścisław Olechnowicz.
In the post-World War Two territory of Poland, the PUR had branches in each voivodeship. Furthermore, in the so-called Recovered Territories, it ran regional offices, which covered several powiats. In the first postwar months, these offices were under direct supervision of three voivodeship branches, Poznań, Katowice and Białystok. Most important tasks in postwar transfers of population were carried out by stage offices of the PUR. The biggest one was Special Western Stage Office, located in Czechowice-Dziedzice. It serviced some 500,000 people.
There were four kinds of such offices:
As for August 31, 1945, the PUR had 259 offices of all kinds, scattered across Poland.