Friday, 1 November 2019

Polish refugees land in New Zealand

Polish refugees land in New Zealand


Fact
  • Over 800 polish people arrived.
  • 733 were children & 102 were adults.
  • Most refugees settled down in New Zealand after the war but a small number returned to Poland.
  • Joseph Stalin sent over 120,000 Polish prisoners to Iraq.
  • Around 1.7 million Polish were sent to labour camps around the world.
  • They were forced labour in Siberia before they came to NZ.


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