- £225.00
India. (Polish Refugees in India). 1946. Air Mail envelope (with letter) addressed to 'Rolezewska Jadwign, Valivade, Kolhapur, Polish Refugee Camp, India' bearing Great Britain SG 414, 10d turquoise tied by 'Poczta Polowa/ 123' double ring '26th March 46' with framed 'By Air Mail/ Poczta Lotnicza' in violet on face and part Experimental P.O. arrival on reverse.
The children on arrival in India had been placed at the Camp in Baldry, this lasted four months. The Maharaja of Nawanagar placed 500 children in an orphanage in the town of Balachadi. A year later a permanent camp was established at Valivade, Kolhapur for women and children.
When Soviet forces entered Poland an estimated one million Poles were deported to Labour Camp Gulags in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Mail from or into the Polish Refugee's is almost impossible to find as most of the children were orphans and the women widows.
