The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children

The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children

19670h 18mmovie

This 1967 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees. Moving interviews, filmed 20 years later, document their harrowing exodus from Poland: via Siberian labour camps, malnutrition and death, to being greeted by PM Peter Fraser on arrival in NZ. From trau...

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