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Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children (1944)
Documentary · 8m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Writer
- Michael Forlong
- Director of Photography
- A.W.E. Bailey
- Editor
- Michael Forlong
Details
- Release date
- 1944-01-01
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- New Zealand
- Production
- New Zealand National Film Unit