- £150.00
India. (Polish Refugees in India). 1944. Envelope written from 'Zopia Kurek, Polish Refugee, Camp Valivade, Kolhapur, India' addressed to North America bearing India SG 272, 3 1/2a blue tied by Experimental P.O. double ring '19th Mar 44' with 'Opened by Examiner' label tied by framed 'Crown/ Passed DHC/ 3' on reverse with 'DHC/ 451' hand-stamp in violet on face.
The children on arrival in India had been placed at the Camp in Bandry, 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 the Polish Refugee's is almost impossible to find as most children were orphans and the women widows.
