
Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
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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- English
- new zealand
- newsreel
- documentary short
- second world war
- new zealand national film unit
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- Theatrical1 Jan 1944
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Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children was released on 1 January 1944.
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