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

Content: 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.

Countries:

New Zealand

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

8 minutes

Year:

1944

Production companies:

New Zealand National Film Unit

Actors:

Narrator

Crews:

Writer

Editor

Director of Photography