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Kōrero: Refugees

A Polish refugee 25 years later

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A Polish refugee 25 years later

Mr K. Markowski arrived in New Zealand in 1944 as one of the displaced Polish children. Twenty-five years later he and fellow refugees returned to the camp at Pahīatua where they had spent their early years in New Zealand. Mr Markowski was pictured on that visit holding a photograph of himself as an eleven-year-old boy in 1944. In the old photograph he is the boy on the extreme right.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Politics-Immigration-Polish refugees-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ann Beaglehole, Refugees – 1870s–1940s: refugee groups, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1233/a-polish-refugee-25-years-later (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ann Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.