On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Jewish Admin wrote: The first page of the letter says what looks like: Krajwska Ludgarda Polish Refugee Camp Walivade Kolhapur India... There's a book about this, which mentions the camp at Valivade on p. 130-1, which must be the same as above. The book , "The Polish Deportees of WWII...," by Tadeusz Piotrowski, 2007, is previewed in Google Books. Barnes & Noble has it for $36 US. http://books.google.com/books?id=9Kefzi0_vwIC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Polish+refugees+in+India&source=bl&ots=PNLRZFxzcq&sig=jI0-IdsFe7BxJWCWqlw7VMvGs0o&hl=en&ei=qJ7dTODoBI30swOIuY3QCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCA#v =onepage&q=Polish%20refugees%20in%20India&f=false It says the camp near the village of Valivade was designed to house 5,000 Polish refugees. The book is all from diaries and memoirs. It looks very interesting. In the preface, it says, "Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country from 1939 to 1941. This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign told in the words of a few of the survivors..." The author's email address is: [email protected] I wrote him a note. Sherry, if he wants to help, I'll forward his reply to you. Some of the other websites said the immigrants were warmly welcomed in India, and some settled there. Linda Wolfe Kelley California