Česlovas Sviderskas (1920-1997), Who Stayed in Sydney, by Rasa Ščevinksienė and Ann Tündern-Smith

Like our previous entrant, Vladas Navickas, Česlovas Sviderskas was one of the first group of 6 Lithuanians and Latvians sent to work at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, in April 1948. Unlike Vladas, Česlovas stayed, started a family and became part of Sydney’s Lithuanian community.

Česlovas was another of the 187, at least, First Transport men sent to pick fruit in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley from late January 1948. His employers were Messrs Dundas Simson of Ardmona. He had worked for them until returning to the Bonegilla camp on 1 April, so for a solid 2 months.

Česlovas Sviderskas in 1947

Source:  National Archives of Australia

Česlovas (or Charles) in Sydney

An obituary by Anskis Reisgys, published in the Mūsų Pastogė newspaper in November 1997, summarises his life in Australia. He stayed at the Concord Repatriation Hospital for the contract period required by the Australian Government, so probably until 30 September 1949. 

While there, he met a later arrival, Janina Jablonskytė, who became his wife on 26 November 1949.  The bride's marriage required the prior consent of the Minister for Immigration, as a birthdate of 12 March 1929 meant that she was still under the then age of majority, 21.  They had 2 sons, Robert and Raimondas.

Anskis wrote (in Lithuanian, translated by Rasa) that “Česlovas took great care of the well-being of his young family. He acquired a house for them in the Sydney suburb of Wentworthville early. He constantly improved the well-being of his family by acquiring better and better housing”.

Wentworthville was further away from Sydney’s centre than Parramatta. By the time Česlovas (than known as Charles Stevens) and Janina were granted Australian citizenship on 6 October 1961, the family had moved to Sydney’s south, to Revesby. This suburb was close to the Sydney’s Lithuanian Club in Bankstown, a suburb known by some as “Balt Town”.

Česlovas at Work and Play

Anskis added that Česlovas had “successfully immersed himself in the new air-conditioning industry, which was then expanding rapidly.”

“Česius had a soft heart for those who got into trouble”, Anskis wrote. “He supported not only his relatives, but also everyone who needed help. However, perhaps he devoted most of his heart to Lithuanian song. At gatherings he quickly became the centre of attention with his songs. Perhaps while singing, he poured out his heartache and gathered so much new strength that there was no room for complaints.

Česlovas' Retirement and Death

“Retirement was not a good time for Česlovas: his health deteriorated, he underwent a serious operation, after which he never recovered his health. He rejoiced in his grandchildren and the achievements of his sons. At the beginning of (1997), he suffered a major haemorrhage in the brain. Without regaining consciousness, he died on 6 November”, Anskis reported.

Česlovas or Charles in later life

Source:  Mūsų Pastogė

A large gathering of the Sviderskas and Jablonskis families farewelled Česlovas 4 days later at Sydney’s Rookwood Crematorium. Undoubtedly, many friends attended also, since there are 4 condolence advertisements immediately under the Mūsų Pastogė obituary.

One of those advertisements was from Sophia and Carmen Saparas, the widow and daughter of another First Transport arrival in Australia, Bronius Šaparas, who had been a pioneer aviator in Lithuania.

The resting place of Charles (Česlovas) Stevens (Sviderskas) 
in the Rookwood Cemetery

Source:  Milly McCarthy on Find A Grave

Janina dies

Česlovas’ widow, Janina, by then also known as Jenny, lived on for another 17 years after her husband died. She was farewelled by 4 grandchildren in addition to the 2 sons in December 2014.

Česlovas' Youth

Česlovas had been born in the town of Simnas, in Lithuania’s south, as the youngest of 11 children. He spent a happy childhood on his parents' large farm while attending the local primary school, then studied at Marijampolė secondary school. He also studied at the Kaunas Theological Seminary, and later attended lectures at the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University.

The report of the interview he attended with the selection team for migration from Germany to Australia summarises this as 3 years of primary school and 8 years of secondary.

Česlovas in Germany

At the time his presence in Germany as a refugee was recorded on an American form in August 1945, he had reached the city of Paderborn towards the north of the country. The Americans recorded him as a medical student, something that Australian records ignored but, possibly, this was taken into account in sending him to the Concord Hospital.

The only language in which he was fluent recorded by the Australians was Lithuanian, but the Americans noted that he spoke German, Polish and Russian without mentioning the Lithuanian.

He is likely to have known English too by October 1947, when applying for Australia, since his address then is given as 8184 Lab Serv Co, probably working for the Americans but the place was not listed. His occupation by then had become “automechanic”.

Versatility

Growing up on a farm seems to have taught Česlovas, the former medical student, to be versatile.

CITE THIS AS:  Ščevinksienė, Rasa and Tündern-Smith, Ann (2026) 'Česlovas Sviderskas  (1920-1997), Who Stayed in Sydney' https://firsttransport.blogspot.com/2026/01/ceslovas-sviderskas-1920-1997-who-stayed-in-Sydney.html

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Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, for Lithuanian Refugees, by Jonas Antanas Skirka, translated by Rasa Ščevinksienė

The Australian Lithuanian newspaper, Mūsų Pastogė, published an article in December 1954 considering the role of Sydney's Concord Repatriation Hospital in the settlement of Lithuanian refugees (then called Displaced Persons) in Australia after World War II. Its author identified himself as JA Skirka. A quick search of the National Archives of Australian files which have been indexed on RecordSearch shows him to have been Jonas Antanas Skirka. Here is Rasa's translation.

"One of the larger workplaces in Sydney, where most of our compatriots found work and shelter even with their families upon arrival, is the Concord Military Hospital, probably the largest in Sydney.

Concord Hospital at the end of 1949

"Already at the end of 1949, over 60 Lithuanian men and women worked there under contract. All of them, both men and women, worked and still work, regardless of their profession, training, and education, only as ordinary workers. The men were mostly cleaners or orderlies, the women were nursing assistants.

"The worst times were those when, as soon as they arrived, and having nowhere to stay with their families, they were accommodated in the workers' camps located here, separately for women and men. Meetings with families were possible only during their free time — on the street.

A 2011 photo of Concord Hospital shows the 1990 extension
in front of the original multistorey building

Source:  Concord Historical Walking Tour

Lithuanian Doctors

"A little bit of statistical information: of the medical doctors who practiced in Lithuania, the following worked here: Drs Petrauskas, Ivinskis, Kišonas, Šalkauskienė, and Mikas Bobinskas. The first two of them are currently working as doctors in New Guinea, the third is a doctor in the Scheyville immigration camp, and Bobinskas is finishing his medical studies at the University of Sydney.

Lithuanian families

While working there, some met and created Lithuanian families: Česlovas Sviderskis with "Janina Jablonskytė and Stasys Paulauskas with Magdalena Jablonskytė. Kazys Jablonskis died.

"There was a time when entire families worked here: five Karpavičiai, four Miniotai, three Ankudavičiai. Jaunutis Jurskis, the famous chess player Vytautas Patašius and K. Ankudavičius worked and studied together.

Still working at Concord, late 1954

"Currently, 15 Lithuanian men and 10 women are still working permanently. Among them are: the compassionate Sister E. Šavronas, who graduated from an Australian nursing school; Vladas Miniota, a well-known public figure to the Lithuanians of Sydney; A. Gilandis, a student of the Kaunas Conservatory, who has played at various Lithuanian commemorations and parties, and who has promised to open a private music school from the beginning of next year.

Publishers of Mūsų Pastogė

"Finally, three publishers of this issue of Mūsų Pastogė work here: Juozas Kapočius, a public figure, one of the founders of the Lithuanian community in Australia, a former book publisher in Germany, who always, everywhere and helped everyone wherever they were asked; Pranas Antanaitis, quiet and modest, who always contributes with work and donations wherever needed; and Kazys Čiuras, who has been working here for the longest time as a specialist for steam boilers, specially invited from Melbourne."

CITE THIS AS:  Skirka, Jonas Antanas (1954) 'Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, for Lithuanian Refugees' translated from Lithuanian by Rasa Ščevinksienė, https://firsttransport.blogspot.com/2026/01/%20%20%20concord-repatriation-hospital-sydney-for-lithuanian-refugees.html.

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Vladas Navickas (1924-2012): Chartered Accountant in North America, by Rasa Ščevinksienė and Ann Tündern-Smith

Updated 17 January 2026.

Vladas Navickas liked the Bonegilla camp even less than Endrius Jankus. In a 2007 issue of Mūsų Pastogė, so nearly 60 years later, he summarised his experience of Australia – and admitted his regret in leaving. Rasa’s translation from the original Lithuanian reads like this.

“I don't remember if I wrote to you that I was once an Australian. I had come on the very first transport from Germany, with General Heintzelman. I remember that we were placed in the Bonegilla camp like exhibits in a zoo, which people from all over Australia would come to see.

“Even the Immigration Minister Calwell himself met us on the ship and came to the camp to congratulate us on coming to Australia to help develop it and protect it from the ‘yellow peril’ from the north. We were his first ‘children’ of his ‘White Australia’ policy.

“How times have changed since then ... Despite the fact that I left it in 1959, one might say out of boredom, I have so many connections with it. I spent the best years of my youth there (about 15), graduated from university in Hobart, acquired the Chartered Accountant profession, which was useful to me until the end of my working career in this country.

“Today, looking at our current political and economic situation, I regret leaving Australia. Of course, 50 years ago I did not think so. For some time after my arrival, we had a rather pleasant and free life, until about 1980-1985.

“After that, our not too smart, but extremely greedy (of wealth and honour) presidents gradually took too much rights and power into their own hands and began to implement their personal long-cherished programs, despite the fact that for the remaining 300 million inhabitants, most of them were even very disastrous, leading many of them even to their graves.

“Although your leader is quite aggressive, he seems to have more sense than our quixotic leaders. It would be interesting to hear what you think about all this (Australia and this country), if you would like to share your views with me.

"Best wishes, Vladas Navickas, USA”

Where in the USA was Vladas?

We do not know from where in the United States Vladas wrote this letter, but know that his ashes were placed behind a plaque in Las Vegas, Nevada, after his 2012 death at the grand age of 88. Earlier, he worked as a chartered accountant in San Francisco, California, and first reached North America through Vancouver, Canada.

Vladas Navickas in 1947, from his Bonegilla card

Source:  Bonegilla Identity Card Lookup

Concord Repatriation Hospital

He was one of the first group of 6 Lithuanians and Latvians sent to work at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, in April 1948. Before that, he had spent more than two months picking fruit in Victoria, for VR McNab of Ardmona. At some time in 1948, according to Ramunas Tarvydas, he moved to Tasmania. By March 1954, he was back in Victoria, receiving his Australian citizenship.

Vladas' family

He was born in Žagarė, a city in northern Lithuania, close to the border with Latvia, on 18 January 1924. His father was also Vladas, while his mother is named on a document recorded in Germany as “Anna”. This means that it is likely that her name actually was Ona.

They had another son, Vytautas, some 3 years later. He arrived in Australia 5 months after his brother, on the Third Transport, the USAT General WM Black, on 27 April 1948. He also stayed in the Bonegilla camp, working as a camp policeman, according to one of his papers held by the National Archives of Australia.

The parents were in Bavaria after the War, looking for both their sons in October 1945. The younger Vytautas had fled Lithuania with his parents but had become separated from them during an air raid in Memel, then in East Prussia, Germany, but now back in Lithuania and known as Klaipėda. They told an UNRRA team that they understood that Vladas had headed out of Skuodas, another northern Lithuanian city, with the intention of reaching Germany.

Vladas in Germany

The only other information we have about Vladas’ flight to Germany comes for his interview for possible selection to move to Australia on the First Transport. There, the flight is summarised, as it was for so many other interviewees, as “Forcibly evacuated by the Germans”.

At the time he applied for Australia, he was in a Displaced Persons Camp in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the centre of western Germany.  He is recorded as completing the 4 years of primary school which all young Lithuanians attended, plus 7 years of secondary education. The languages he spoke were the obvious ones: Lithuanian, German, English.

Father Continues to Search for Sons

In 1952, their father was in America but still looking for his sons, according to the advertisement below in Australijos lietuvis (The Australian Lithuanian).

Source:  Australijos lietuvis (The Australian Lithuanian) 11 February 1952

We no nothing about further contact between members of this family. We do know from Vladas’ Aliens Registration Certificate that he had 3 addresses in Hobart before he moved to Melbourne in early 1954, and that his occupation changed from labourer to clerk.

Vladas in Tasmania Applies for Citizenship

In 1953, when Vladas was still in Tasmania, he was studying bookkeeping and auditing, as his passes were published in both the Burnie Advocate and the Launceston Examiner.

He started applying for Australian citizenship in Hobart in 1952, with advertisements in the two main Tasmanian newspapers, the Hobart Mercury and the Launceston Examiner, from 16 October, attached to his application. The application ran into trouble when, at a 9 December 1952 interview, having been told that there were penalties under the Citizenship Act for false information, he admitted that he planned to move to Canada indefinitely.

In a letter dated 20 January 1953, Vladas stated that he would not go to Canada if not granted Australian citizenship. This would not have helped his case, since the double negative also can be read as an intention to depart if he did receive the grant.

On 14 April, Vladas replied to a Departmental letter, missing from the file, to state that he had abandoned his plans to go to Canada. Two letters then were sent to the High Commission but, after no reply in six months, someone telephoned instead.

That produced the Canadian reply that Vladas indeed had sought a visa, after a “close relative” had encouraged him. The fact that he would not get Australian citizenship if he really intended to depart indefinitely for Canada, leaving no ties behind in Australia, had led to the withdrawal of his application.

We have to wonder which relative could be closer than the brother also living near Hobart in Tasmania. Possibly the wife and child who he admitted later to having had in Hobart, and more about them soon.

Vladas leaves Tasmania

Vladas was resident in Yarraville, Melbourne, by March 1954, when he was a recipient of Australian citizenship at the first ceremony to be held by the Mayor of Williamstown, an inner western suburb.

In August 1956, an American Lithuanian newspaper, Naujienos (News), reported that Vladas had settled in Vancouver, Canada. The translation continues, “He is an experienced accountant and hopes to find work in his specialty.” This despite the commitment not to leave, in order to receive Australian citizenship.

As it happens, he did not qualify fully for an accountancy career until 1959, when he received a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree from the University of Tasmania. We know this from a list of Graduates of that University with Lithuanian Names, which appeared in the 1997 issue of Lithuanian Papers. This was an annual journal published by people associated with the University of Tasmania.

Also, he wrote in 2007 above that he did not leave Australia until 1959. Perhaps the Naujienos reporter thought that he was settling down immediately instead of checking out North America. Perhaps that is what he told the reporter.

At the same time, Vladas contradicted himself by writing that he stayed in Australia “about 15” years, since his February 1959 arrival in the United States, as stated on his petition for US citizenship, means a little over 11 years of residence here.

Vladas Settles in San Francisco

In fact, he left Australia again, early in 1959, from Sydney on the Oronsay, arriving in San Francisco on 7 February 1959. This information comes from his petition for US naturalisation. In the 1964 petition, he was claiming that he had not left the US since arrival. He must have graduated in absentia from his Tasmanian BComm course.

No, he did not leave Australia for Canada but, yes, he did leave Australia permanently as an Australian citizen with no intention of returning.

When he received his US citizenship on 30 March 1964, he had been an Australian citizen for only 10 years.  At least Australian citizenship helped him move on from Australia freely, or so he must have thought.

From advertisements published in the Lietuviai Amerikos vakaruose (Lithuanians in Western America) newspaper between 1966 and 1977, we can see that he continued to offer his services as a chartered accountant from 2838 Clement Street, San Francisco. This was in a mostly residential neighbour with a scattering of businesses, to judge from the modern Google Street View images.

One of Vladas' advertisements, offering professional advice on income tax

Source:  Lietuviai Amerikos vakaruose (Lithuanians in Western America) March 1977

Vladas' marriages

During this time, on 20 October 1975, Vladas married Setsuko Kato in Monterey, a city south of San Francisco. He was 51 years old, while she was 27.

This marriage lasted until Vladas‘ death and Setsuko is buried with him. Ancestry records suggested the possibility of an earlier marriage, since they note a divorce beween a Vladas Navickas, born in 1924, and Dietlind I Klopschinsk in San Francisco in 1973. However, various records on the Web indicate that Vladas Navickas had a lot of namefellows, not just his father, including another Vladas Navickas born later in 1924. Further, the only other record for Dietlind Klopschinsk (or perhaps, Klopschinski*) on the Web appears to be a later marriage, so it is not possible to check further the birthdate of her former husband.

And definitely there was an early marriage and divorce in Australia, declared on Vladas’ 1964 petition for naturalisation in San Francisco. He advised that he had married Ona Taparauskas in Hobart on 13 February 1950. They now were divorced and she had remained in Australia. His Australian citizenship application shows that the marriage had produced one child, who stayed with the mother.

Vladas and Setsuko Move Around

In retirement, Vladas, with Setsuko, appears to have returned to the peripatetic lifestyle of his early adulthood. The Tampa Bay Times in Florida records the sale of a home by Vladas and Setsuko in that area in December 1997. Between July 2008 and April 2012, they owned a property in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Amazon.com‘s transcription of the US Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volumes 1 and 2, also have Setsuko Navickas (far less likely to have namefellows than her husband) living in Grand Canyon, Arizona, St Petersburg, Florida (across Tampa Bay from the city of Tampa) and Gresham, Oregon (more than 4 hours’ drive away from the other Oregon address of Grants Pass).

They moved to Henderson, Nevada, a city adjacent to the southeast of Las Vegas. Vladas died there on 4 July 2012.

Ancestry’s transcription of the US Index to Public Records, 1994-2019, has Setsuko living at the Henderson address between 1998 and 2020. There were two more addresses in Las Vegas for 1997 and 1998, presumably until the couple found the home they wanted to buy in 1998.

The St Petersburg FL address was good for 1991-2004, according to the US Index to Public Records, 1994-2019. The 2004 end date does conflict with the 1997 sale and the dates given for Setsuko’s addresses in other records.

If they were living in Henderson NV between 1998 and 2012 (longer for Setsuko), then either the Grants Pass OR property owned at the same time was an investment property, or perhaps they commuted between the two (summer in Oregon, winter in the warmer Nevada sun).

Vladas' Death

Vladas died on an important date for Americans, 4 July, in 2012. We do not know Setsuko’s date of death because it is too recent for public records and because her birthdate only is visible in the photograph below of the plaque in Palm Memorial Park, Las Vegas, behind which their ashes presumably rest.

Plaque for Vladas and Setsuko, in Palm Memorial Park, Las Vegas

Source:  Find A Grave

Vladas' Brother, Vytautas

Even before his older brother became an Australian citizen – for 10 years only – Vytautas was advertising his intention to apply. First his advertisement appeared in the Hobart Mercury of 22 October 1952, a little too early as he admitted that he had been in Australia for only 4½ years. This was followed by the required second advertisement in the Launceston Examiner of 27 May 1954. He was living in Hobart area then too, at Myrtle Gully, Cascades.

Vytautas Navickas from an Alien Registration record

Source:  National Archives of Australia

Unlike his brother, he stayed in Hobart, known as Jack, and died there on 20 February 2015. At this time, he had been married to Mary for 61 years, meaning that he must have married back in 1953-54, and had become the father of Heather, Wayne and Gary. They had given him 7 grandchildren.

Of the two brothers, it was the younger Vytautas who stayed to contribute to Australia.

FOOTNOTE

* In fact, Dietlinde Irmhild Klopschinski, born 1935, according to another Ancestry user, whom I thank for the detail.

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