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.
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Title
Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
Released
Jan 1, 1944
Rated
Not rated
Region of Origin
New Zealand
Original Audio
English
Runtime
8m
Status
Released
Studio
New Zealand National Film Unit
