Польша - Швейцария. Международный Красный Крест. Вопросы почтового сообщения и цензуры.

Перед вами письмо польского филателиста, участника Россики-2016, с экспонатом "The letters sent from Warsaw to Geneva in 1944".
Пётр ищет контакты с российскими коллекционерами.

For several years I have been dealing with a little known field of Polish philately, concerning censored mail which were sent from Warsaw to the International Red Cross in Switzerland at the end of 1944.
The right-bank part of Warsaw – Praga – was liberated by Polish troops fighting as a part of the Soviet Army in the late summer of 1944. In contrast to the left-bank Warsaw it was not touched by the Warsaw Uprising and German post-uprising repression. The destruction was not as big as in other parts of the city, it was possible to live quite normally there, which was evidenced by postal communication.
The Praga post offices were seated in the following locations: W4 – Warszawa 4 at Brukowa 11, which was later transferred to Radzymińska 102, W9 – Warszawa 9 at Wysockiego 26, W16 – Warszawa 16 at Ząbkowska 50, W23 – Warszawa 23 at Stalowa 25, W26 – Warszawa 26 at Grochowska 246, W38 – Warszawa 38 at Zamojskiego 26 and W50 – Warszawa 50 at Grochowska 108.
I kindly request for an information if there are any documents in the Soviet archives of regarding the correspondence of citizens of Warsaw.
I enclose a few copies of such and I have the questions:

1. The letters were sorting at the post office Warsaw 4 and were sent to the Wysokie Mazowieckie locality, where was the airfield from which they were dispatched to Moscow.
2. What was the routing of these letters from Poland to Switzerland through the Soviet Union?
3. What were then the principles of letters’ censorship in the Soviet Union?
4. There aren’t any Soviet war censorship on those letters - it is possible that the mailbags with letters were transported by Red Cross couriers.
5. How the mailbags were sent from Moscow to Ankara if the Soviet Union does not maintain diplomatic relations with Turkey at that time?
6. Official contact of Soviet and English censorship was possible only in Tehran where was the Polish Legation and very strong outpost of Polish Red Cross existed. Polish Red Cross courier could deliver letters to the British influence area without it being checked by the Soviet censorship there. Any letter, of more than 200 indexed by me, did not have Soviet or Soviet-British censorship.

Yours sincerely,

Piotr



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Piotr Zubielik
Zakopianska 2
60-474 Poznan
Polska Польша