Bug River Poles

The Bug River Poles[a] are Polish people who, either were, or are descendants of, the inhabitants of the area of the Eastern Borderlands, an area to the east of modern borders of Poland, within the modern territory of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, that were displaced from there to Poland between 1944 and 1959.

In Polish the name is Zabużanie (singular: Zabużanin), which literally means the people from the other side of Bug River.

[1] The Borderlands Poles are the collection of the ethnographic groups of Polish people from the area of the Eastern Borderlands, an area to the east of modern borders of Poland, within the modern territory of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine.

It is referred to as Bug River property, and Poland is currently paying the portion of the recompensation to them, and their descendants.

Currently, the term Bug River Poles is popularly used to refer to those who are eligible to receive such recompensation.

The monument in Gdańsk , commemorating the Bug River Poles who settled in the city following the end of World War II , and helped rebuild it.