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

NR19448mDocumentary

Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children (1944) is a documentary film.

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.

Released: 1944-01-01
Duration: 8m
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Country: New Zealand
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Writer: Michael Forlong
Cast: Rex Walden
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Production: New Zealand National Film Unit