Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 · THE MAP IN
Map of refugees in Europe in April 1947
Operation Vistula; Istria ceded
Refugees in Europe in April 1947: Operation Vistula; Istria ceded. The map shows who held what: Soviet-occupied or communist, Western bloc or democracy, Germany and Austria occupied.
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On the ground
- the Lemko and Ukrainian south-east of Poland, emptied by Operation Vistula in 1947
- Istria, Fiume and the Julian March, ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia in 1947; most Italians left by 1956
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