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Red Cross welcome first refugees at Pahiatua
31 October 2019

Celebrating 75 years welcoming refugees

On 31 October 1944, 733 Polish children and their caregivers arrived in Wellington aboard the USS General Randall. It was the start of a new life.
Refugee children train
31 October 2016

Memories of arriving in New Zealand

On 31 October 1944, 733 children and 102 adults arrived in Wellington on the USS General Randall. They were then taken by train on 1 November 1944 to Pahiatua, to the “Polish Camp” where they remained for the duration of the war.
Nuclear weapons anniversary
6 August 2015

Nuclear weapons - 70th anniversary

Red Cross is concerned by the destructive force of nuclear weapons and the immense human suffering they inflict. Seventy years on from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the humanitarian and environmental consequences continue.