Polish Refugees in India 1942-1948
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The Polish Children’s Camp was at Balachadi, near Jamnagar on the Kathiawar Peninsula, Bombay Presidency. The Polish Refugees’ Camp was at Valivade in Kolhapur State, Bombay Presidency
External links
- Details of the book Poles in India 1942-1948: Second World War Story. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
- Article The Times Of India 17 September 2006 about the camp for Polish refugee children at Balachadi
- The Noble and Compassionate Heart of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi The Cosmopolitan Review
- Polish Maharaja’s Children Blog by Bediqus 24 June (?) 2010
- An unforgettable journey by Maria van der Linden (1992) (online) The story of a child Polish refugee who spent five years in India from December 1942-1947. She spent a period in the main Polish Refugees' Camp at Valivade-Kolhapur. For a period she attended Kimmins Girls' High School, an Anglican missionary college , at Panchgani inland from Poona where her mother was the school nurse.
- The General Langfitt Story: Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal and Resettlement by Maryon Allbrook and Helen Cattalini first published 1995 includes a chapter "The Polish Settlements in India". Online publication of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), Australian Government
- Part Two: Stories of the deportations to Siberia by Teresa Oszurko. Scroll down the page to the commencement of this article, and further scroll (about 80%) to the time spent in India.
- Details of the book Heniek: A Polish Boy's Coming of Age in India During WW2 by Anna Bonshek December 2009 Publisher: Prana World Consulting ISBN: 9780646523033
- Polish nationals’ graves in Karachi Microsoft Word Document Google webcache html link