18|11|19 Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Today we did a listening test about Chernobyl. Chernobyl is a place where a nuclear power plant exploded and killed 31 people over a period of months due to radiation.

Chernobyl Facts:

1. Where is Chernobyl? Chernobyl is in Pripyat in Ukraine, SSR.

2. You can still die due to the RADIATION in Chernobyl. Do not go there!

3. Chernobyl is the worst accident in the world. It is also the biggest Nuclear explosion.

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Polish refugees land in New Zealand 1 November 1944

Polish refugees land in New Zealand

1 November 1944

Facts:

1. Around 1.7 million Polish were sent to labor camps around the world.

2. There were 733 children and 102 Polish adults that arrived in NZ.

3. Joseph Stalin sent over 120,000 Polish prisoners to Iraq.

4. Our prime minister Peter Fraser invited polish children in for the duration of war.

5. Most of the refugees settled in NZ others joined in the the 1940's.

6. They were forced labor in Siberia and evacuated through the middle east before coming to NZ.