Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children poster

Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children

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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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  • New ZealandNZ

    • 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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