The read
It runs a compact 8m.
Synopsis
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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Key crew
- Michael ForlongWriter
Cast
- Rex WaldenNarrator
Themes
new zealandnewsreeldocumentary shortsecond world warnew zealand national film unit