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Polish immigrant children
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.
Photographer: John Dobree Pascoe, 1908–1972
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference Number: John Dobree collection (PAColl-0783), 1/4-003659;F
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
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.
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