Story of 700 Polish Children (1966)

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Story of 700 Polish Children (1966)

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New Zealand National Film Unit presents Story of 700 Polish Children (1966) In 1943 the New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser, influenced by the Polish Consul Kazimierz Wodzicki and his wife Maria, invited a group of orphaned Polish children and their guardians to New Zealand for the duration of the war. Maria Wodzicka, a refugee herself, had an opportunity to meet some children deported from Poland on a troopship, which stopped at Wellington harbour on the way to Mexico. She was deeply tou...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NO3FC2NB0o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Poland / Newzealand / children / 1966 / 1944

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