Kindergarten group at a Polish refugee camp, Pahiatua, 7 February 1945.
In 1944 more than 700 displaced Polish children, with about 100 adults, arrived in New Zealand. Maria Wodzicka, herself a Polish immigrant, had helped negotiate their acceptance by the New Zealand government, and took a leading role in assisting them to settle in New Zealand. She mediated between the Polish Children's Camp at Pahiatua and government agencies, and she and her family acted as translators.
- See also: film about Polish children in NZ (NZOnScreen)
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference Number: John Dobree collection (PAColl-0783), 1/4-003659;F
Photographer: John Dobree Pascoe, 1908–1972
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
