Skwarko, Photos, list

	List of Photographs and Enlargements photos with enlargements are labelled with:
	PERSIA
	(1) Sixty of the children had their first Communion in the old Persian capital of lsfahan in July, 1942. It was a special occasion that brought the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Marina (centre) from Teheran. Others in the group are the chaplain, the Rev. Tomasik (second left), the director of the Polish children's homes in lsfahan, Mr T. Dymowski (holding the tropical hat), and the author (right).
	(2) Archbishop Marina was a frequent quest at the children's homes in lsfahan. As part of a special concert the children put on in the garden of Home 2 to welcome him on this visit there were a number of items from the boys' choir.
	(3) A festive day in lsfahan on August 15, 1942 to commemorate the Polish victory over the Bolsheviks in a battle near Warsaw in 1920. The children gave a concert in the grounds of Home No 1 to guests that included the Persian Governor, the Mayor of lsfahan and the British Consul.
	(4) Another part of the day-long celebration commemorating the 1920 Polish victory was an impressive parade by the children. Home No 1 is in the background.
	(5) An open-air confirmation service by the chief chaplain of the Polish Army, Archbishop Gawlina. The ceremony was held in the grounds of the Convent of the Sisters of Charity.
	(6) The Polish Minister in Teheran, Mr Bader (centre) and the head of the Polish Delegatura, Mr W. Styburski, with kindergarten children from Home No 10.
	(7) The girls of Home No 9 provided a guard of honour for Minister Bader and Delegate Styburski during one of their visits to the homes in 1942.
	(8) The one thing that links all the girls in this photograph is their concentration on the task in hand - a homecraft lesson in Home No 6.
	(9) The girls who were accommodated in Home No 5 pose for the camera with the author (centre) and the director of the Polish Homes in lsfahan, Mr Dymowski. Before the children moved to New Zealand and other places there were 17 of these Polish homes In Isfahan.
	(10) A hive of Industry around a single treadle sewing-machine as the girls of Home No 4 learn how to sew their own clothes.
	(11) The commemorative plaque installed in the chapel of the Sisters of Charity by the Polish community in lsfahan on October 7, 1943.	II
	(12) A visitor to the lsfahan homes in 1943 was General Tokarzewski, representing General Anders. He is seen at the front of the chapel of the Sisters of Charity with children from Home No 2.
	(13) The Polish staff who cared for the hundreds of children that lived in the 17 homes around lsfahan.
	(14) Being in Persia it was natural that the girls should learn something about carpet-weaving. They were taught the skills of wool dyeing and carpet-weaving by a qualified Persian weaver in a workshop set up in Home No 17.
	(15) The first carpet to be completed by the girl weavers of Home 17. Along with three others it was presented in 1943 to the Polish Delegatura in Teheran.
	(16) Polish Girl Guides with their leader, Mrs S. Kozera, in lsfahan in 1944. The ideals of both the Guiding and Scouting movements helped develop a spirit of brotherhood and social responsibility among the young people.
	(17) The warmth of the lsfahan sun had a healing effect on the children. One way to cool off in the heat was to go swimming. For some it was pleasant just to sit on the edge and dangle their feet.

	NEW ZEALAND
	(18) The Polish refugee children are welcomed on board the American troopship "General Randall" in Wellington Harbour on November 1, 1944, by Prime Minister Peter Fraser and the Polish Red Cross Delegate in New Zealand, Countess Wodzicka. The Prime Minister is holding Julian Osko and the three children just in front of him are Bronia Jasionowicz, Stefania Krawczyszyn and Ryszard Tymicki. The children held by the three New Zealand soldiers are Franciszek Szpetner, Marysia Bartniczak and Zofia Portas (now Mrs Z Januszkiewicz). (also on front cover)
	(19) The welcoming party of New Zealand soldiers on the platform of Pahiatua Railway Station on November 2, 1944. They helped the children with their luggage onto waiting army trucks that took them to their new home.
	(20) The first night in what was to be the children's home for the next few years. The Pahiatua Red Cross Society prepared all the dormitories just before the children arrived. There were fresh flowers on the tallboys and friendly members of the New Zealand Women's Army Corps to help the small children into bed.
	(21)Willing hands help with the first meal in the Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua after the long train trip from Wellington.
	(22) Two New Zealanders use a gate-post vantage at Pahiatua to get to know the newly-arrived Polish children at first hand. The frequent association with the local children was to benefit the Poles both physically and socially. It did not take them long to realise that the New Zealanders were always ready to give them a friendly hand.
	(23) For many Pahiatua soon became a place where they could forget their earlier black childhood. Some of those in this happy group are R. Bialostocki (in black on left), J. Niedzwiedzki (arrowed) and B. Lemow (sixth from left in back row). Among those in the front row from left are J. Mazur, Z. Sierpinski, M. Powierza, K. Niedzwiedzki and A. Rybinski.
	(24) The Pahiatua Camp contained dormitories, dining rooms, recreation halls, schools, a library, gymnasium, hospital, chapel and administrative building. It had family cottages for the staff and tar-sealed streets divided it into four sections. The man in the centre of the picture is Mr S. Zaleski who became administrator of the camp after the first Delegate of the Polish Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Mr J. Sledzinski, was transferred in 1945.
	(25) On another occasion when Prime Minister Peter Fraser visited the Pahiatua Camp to be greeted by children in gay native costumes he was accompanied by another great friend of the Polish people, the New Zealand Catholic Metropolitan, Archbishop O'Shea. The archbishop is the man with the beard on the left of the group. Others from left to right are the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Peter Fraser; Archbishop Panico, Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand; the young man in costume is unidentified; Mr Foss Shanahan, Secretary to the Prime Minister; Father Kavanagh; Father F. Herlihy of the Columban Missionary Society; Father E. Sweeney, parish priest of Pahiatua; and Father W.J. Heavey. The children in costumes: Back row: Maria Dac, Janina Ratuszna, Maria Antoniak, Henryk Wolk, Zofia Demkowska, Stanislawa Lasak. In front: Krystyna lzydorczyk, lrena Wierzbicka, Danuta Holownia, Barbara lzydorczyk, Irena Bilek, lrena Szczepanska, Jozefa Aniecka, Janina Wasiukiewicz, - Lakoma. Front: Anna Lewkowicz, Krystyna Dygas, Heryka Holender, Zofia Dobronska, Zofia Portas, Zofia Debczynska, Stefania Krawczyszyn, M. Dudek, Maria Bartniczak, J. Szczesna.
	(26) The New Zealand soldiers who helped run the camp in the early days of its career even provided monkey bars and see-saws for the children to play on. These children, with staff member Mrs Rubisz, were part of the kindergarten group.
	(27) On Sundays the children put on their best clothes and set out for the camp chapel that they had made in a large recreation hall of the Pahiatua complex.

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	(28) To mark the 25th anniversary of the arrival of the Polish refugee children in this country the president of the Association of Poles, Mr P. Kilczewski and Mrs I Mroczek lay a wreath on Prime Minister Fraser's memorial at Wellington's Karori Cemetery in 1969. Standing at the rear is the man who was the wartime Polish Consul-General, Count K. Wodzicki, the then M.P. for Wellington Central, Mr D. Riddiford and the Rev. Bronislaw Wegrzyn.