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When it comes to India , the good deeds that were done by Indians to humanity were never reported or taught in their history classes by the puppet anti Hindu liberal government of India, which were put in charge there by the invaders.

Maharaja Adopted Hundreds of Polish Orphans During WWII.

In 1939, World War II began, and Germany invaded Poland. Soon after, the USSR showed up as well, and these partners divided up Poland for themselves. Polish civilians were dying every day. While many Poles were scattered to other parts of Europe, many of them did not feel truly safe from the ever-growing power of the Nazi Party. As more and more adults were killed in battle, thousands of Polish orphans were transported to orphanages in the Soviet Union.

The civilians in these camps were living in squalor as prisoners of war. Jewish citizens were transported to Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz, but non-Jewish people were left as refugees. They were living in tents, because there was not enough housing to support them. They were not fed enough, and many of them were growing thin and sick. With the rest of the western world preoccupied with fighting a war, there was nowhere for the hundreds of orphaned children to go.

Maharaja To the Rescue

At that time, a man named Jam Sahib was the Maharaja of India. When he heard about these refugee children and saw photographs of children where their rib cages were visible, because they were clearly malnourished, his heart bled for them. India became the first country that welcomed all Polish refugees, so they could live in peace. The Red Cross and British consulates in Poland began a long process of arranging the transport of these children. Six hundred and forty girls and boys, along with hundreds of other adults traveled thousands of miles in a ship. Any teenager over the age of 15 was given asylum in the country, and adult men were allowed to live and work there as refugees, as well.
The 640 children under the age of 15 were taken directly to the royal palace in Bombay, where they were greeted by the prince who was now their adopted father. The Maharaja said, “You are no longer orphans. From now on you are Nawangarians , and I am Bapu, father of all Nawangarians, so I’m your father as well”. He only want to make sure these children all felt loved and cared for.

The kind-hearted Maharaja opened his home to the orphaned Poland children and treated them like his own family. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

During an interview with a Polish magazine, the Maharaja explained that these children had been through enough tragedy in their lives, and he wanted to give them as much of their childhood back as he possibly could. “Maybe there, in the beautiful hills beside the seashore, the children will be able to recover their health and to forget the ordeal they went through…. I sympathise with the Polish nation and its relentless struggle against oppression.”

Since most of India was a British territory, the vast majority of Europeans who were living there spoke English. However, the prince did not want these children to grow up to forget how to speak Polish. Their lessons in school were all spoken in Polish, and he ordered thousands of Polish books, and built a library to put them in. The Maharaja imported materials from Poland, and custom-made traditional clothing for their children to wear, so that they could experience their home country’s history and culture as much as possible, even though the were thousands of miles away. They sometimes referred to this as “Little Poland”.

https://historycollection.co/that-time-the-maharaja-adopted-hundreds-of-polish-orphans-during-wwii/
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LoneKnight · M
@SW-User No , I post that so that people, especially Indians and Hindus who read this will know that they are not cow worshipping savages as the western media's constantly portrays them.
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