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The National Repatriation Office (PUR), functioning between 1944 and 1951, was in charge of repatriation of Polish nationals and mass transfers of ethnic Poles from territories taken over by the Soviet Union. PUR officials had an exceptionally broad spectrum of competencies and responsibilities. These included looking after adequate sanitary conditions of the transports and supplying the new arrivals...