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Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
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Released: 1944-01-01
Running Time: 8 Minutes
Homepage: https://www.nzonscreen.com/all-series/weekly-review/nz-soldiers-and-polish-children-weekly-review-no-169-1944/
Studios: New Zealand National Film Unit,
This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was the conclusion of an epic wartime survival tale: an exodus from Poland via Siberian labour camps, to being greeted by Prime Minister Peter Fraser in NZ. The Poles then take the train past waving crowds to their new home: a camp in Pahīatua. Twenty years later the children were revisited in Kathleen O’Brien’s classic 1966 documentary The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children.
