Three years later, most of these children made a safe return to Poland.
To commemorate the centenary of these events, in August a group of Japanese students planted 100 apple trees in Warsaw.
On Thursday, to finalise the celebrations, an apple tree symbolising Polish-Japanese friendship was planted in the garden of the Polish embassy in Tokyo.
Radio Poland's Marcin Matuszewski has the story.
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