The Good Maharaja: How a Princely State in India Became a Refuge for Polish Children During the Second World War
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When Feliks Scazighino was just six years old, the world as he knew it collapsed. Along with millions of other Polish civilians in 1940, his family was forcibly removed from their home in Kresy—then the eastern region of Poland—by Soviet authorities following the Red Army’s invasion of the territory in the wake of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. They were deported in a freezing, overcrowded railway convoy to a gulag in Siberia, part of Stalin’s campaign to eradicate the Polish elite and intelligent
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Original Title: TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.