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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
==Records at the British Library==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_5&cid=1-9-2-2#1-9-2-2 Polish Refugee Camp files, mainly of the Government of India '''IOR/L/AG/40/1/167-182'''] No date
==External links==
*[http://www.antoranz.net/BIBLIOTEKA/LINDEN/START.HTM ''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.
