The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Sheltered Poland’s Forgotten Children

The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Sheltered Poland’s Forgotten Children

In the autumn of 1942, a convoy of military trucks kicked up thick clouds of dust as it wound through the arid landscape of Gujarat, India. Inside, eleven-year-old Wiesław Stypuła clung to a wooden bench, his small frame jolting with every bump in the road. He was not alone. The trucks were filled with hundreds […]


The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Saved Poland’s Forgotten Children

The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Saved Poland’s Forgotten Children

In the autumn of 1942, a convoy of military trucks kicked up thick clouds of dust as it wound through the arid landscape of Gujarat, India. Inside, huddled on hard wooden benches, were hundreds of Polish children. They were skeletal, their clothes reduced to rags, and their eyes bore the haunted vacancy of those who […]


The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Saved Polish Children from the Holocaust of the Steppes

The Good Maharaja: How an Indian Prince Saved Polish Children from the Holocaust of the Steppes

On a dusty autumn afternoon in 1942, a convoy of military trucks rumbled through the gates of a coastal settlement in the princely state of Nawanagar, in what is now the Gujarat State of India. Inside the vehicles were hundreds of Polish children—some as young as two years old—who had traveled thousands of miles across […]