My Home India - A Polish Woman’s Memoir During World War II
Details
Oct 28 2023 to Oct 28 2023 6:30 p.m.
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Where
Bangalore International Centre
7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071
Event Description
45 mins | English/ Polish | 2014 | India
Directed by Anjali Bhushan
Co-produced by Malgorzata Czuoszo and Kzeyzstof Zolek, Film Polska
Both in films and history books, a lot is spoken about World War II, however outside of Poland little is known about what happened to the Poles who survived Soviet Siberian labour camps. These Poles have different stories with one common link – Kira Banasinska, wife of Eugene Banasinski, the first Polish Consul General of Poland in Bombay.
Kira Banasinska, as part of the Polish Red Cross, helped settle the war refugees in two camps, one at Jamnagar for 500 children and another larger camp at Valivade, Kolhapur. There were more than six thousand Polish war refugees in India during the period of 1942-1948. Post India’s independence, in 1948, most of them relocated from India to the UK, a few to Latin America and France and even fewer to Communist Poland.
Through previously unseen archives and first hand testimonies from the survivors, My Home India tells the phenomenal story of Kira’s struggle to find a safe passage and home for the Polish war refugees in India, and how, while making a home for them in India, India became her home.
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