Film
Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
1944 · 8m · Documentary
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Overview
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
- Michael ForlongWriter · Editor
- A.W.E. BaileyDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1944
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Documentary
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