6 facts about the 800 polish citizens sent to new zealand
On the first of November 1944, Over 800 polish citizens were sent to New Zealand. Most of them had no family no home and couldn't even speak English. Today on the radio a polish man that is still alive to this very day talked about what it was like first coming to New Zealand.
All the kids that had come to New Zealand all their family were either dead or deported to labour camps where they would spend most of there days. around 1.7 million adults and children were forced into a labour camp.
Today 37 million polish citizens live today most of there numbers were killed off back during the war.
In 1942 prime minister Peter Fraser invited a group of Polish children to New Zealand for the duration of the great war.
In the late 1940s, a camp of children dubbed little Poland. Most of the refugees chose to settle in and not go back into there home country.
Six Polish Men from the 1940s still live to this very day to tell the story.
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