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Documentary Chronicles India's Rescue of 1,000 Polish Children during WWII
(Times of Israel) Manik Mehta - The documentary "Little Poland in India" describes how, during World War II, a kindhearted Maharaja in the princely state in Gujarat agreed to accept orphaned Polish Christian and Jewish children and look after them. Though India was in the midst of an independence struggle against colonial British rule and faced a famine, the "Jam Sahib" - Maharaja Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja of Nawanagar - welcomed a group of 1,000 Polish orphans in 1942 who had been shifted to Siberia after the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. They were housed in a camp in Balachadi until 1946. The documentary, a joint Indo-Polish production, is the first to tell this story.