### India, though not sovereign at the time and not at all prosperous, became the first country in the world to accept and offer war-duration at her own cost to the hapless Polish population rendered homeless and subsequently stateless.
##### Anuradha Bhattacharjee,  scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, authour of _The Second Homeland._

### In 2016,  [Poland's Parliament unanimously adopted a special resolution](https://youtu.be/IrbQ3GHgsjA) honouring  _Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhji_ for his aid to Polish children refugees during WWII. [Roads & schools in Warsaw](http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/a-maharaja-in-warsaw/article12980412.ece) are named after [_Maharaja Jam Sahib._](https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/a-reunion-for-war-survivors-who-escaped-to-india/) 
 
      If we are alive or survive, then we will meet again.
           Message to their families from the women & 
           the captain of the 
           Polish refugee ship.
###  When Hitler invaded Poland, 500 Polish women & 200 children left Poland by sea. The ship's captain had to take them to any country which would shelter them.
##### Safe harbour callously denied at European ports, Seychelles Aden, Iranian ports &  by the British Governor of Bombay, the Maharaja of Jamnagar, Jham Sahab Digvijay Singh,  not only sheltered 500 Polish women, but also freely educated Polish children  in an Army School,  in Balachiri, [Jamnagar](https://youtu.be/EqiL_6iFtLE) for 9 years .i.e. till  the end of World War II.  To [the Poles,](https://youtu.be/fvYzB3me7oc) _Jam Sahib_ was their _Bapu_.

              Lieutenant-General H H Maharaja Jam Saheb 
              Sri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji  Jadeja GCSI GCIE 
              18 Sep 1895 – 3 Feb 1966 
              Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, 1933 to 1948

 https://youtu.be/rIPq-8RZxxM


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