Halina Ogonowska-Coates
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Halina Ogonowska-Coates

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Halina Ogonowska-Coates is an oral historian, writer and film-maker of Polish descent. In Krystyna's Story she has recorded the experiences of many Poles who came to New Zealand after the Second World War. She has presented their story in a television film, Exiles - The Story of a Polish Journey.

Books by Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Krystyna's Story
Halina Ogonowska-Coates

A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.

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