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

1944

Documentary

8m
January 1, 1944 · New Zealand

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 1, 1944
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: New Zealand
Production: New Zealand National Film Unit
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site