COLONIA SANTA ROSA - Introduction

COLONIA SANTA ROSA, written by Sabina Puchalska, is a short history of a temporary Polish settlement established in Santa Rosa (Mexico) in 1943. Almost 2000 Polish civilians (including 264 orphaned children), former deportees rescued from Soviet Russia, were sheltered here during and also for some time after the Second World War.

The photographs illustrating this chapter originate mostly from a commemorative POLSKA SZKOLA W MEKSYKU (the Polish School in Mexico) photo-album presented to every school teacher in Colonia Santa Rosa upon the settlement's closure in 1946. This album, bound in leather with beautifully embossed title and ornaments, which include the Sun Stone of Aztecs (work of an unknown Mexican artist), contains 69 photographs depicting lives of the POLES OF SANTA ROSA.

Feliks Sobota, representative of the Polish Government in Mexico during the war, was spiritus movens, who created the Album and is also the author of the photographs in the Album.

COLONIA SANTA ROSA
POLAND - WWII

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