Meet Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, who in 1942 sheltered nearly 1,000 Polish children fleeing the horrors of World War II, told them they were no longer orphans, and asked them to call him Bapu.
The story, largely unknown outside Poland and the Jewish diaspora, has resurfaced in recent years as a rare and remarkable chapter of Indian humanitarian history.
