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

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

1944
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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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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
New Zealand National Film Unit
Production Countries
New Zealand
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

new zealand newsreel documentary short second world war new zealand national film unit

Quick Facts

Release Date January 1, 1944
Status Released
Language EN
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Cast

Rex Walden
Rex Walden

Narrator

Key Crew

Michael Forlong
Writer