Showing posts with label Calwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calwell. Show all posts
13 August 2025

Jonas Motiejūnas (1921–2004): The Lithuanian Leader Who Left, by Rasa Ščevinskienė and Ann Tündern-Smith

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The Photographs Two photographs of two Lithuanians with Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, are used frequen...
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03 July 2025

More grateful Displaced Persons, December 1947, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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The Western Australian Immigration file of papers for the arrival of the First Transport party includes a letter of thanks additional to th...
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02 July 2025

30 Return to Western Australia, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Updated 5 August 2025. We've noted already that the Western Australian public and, probably, Western Australian public officials, though...
22 June 2024

Displaced Persons in the National Archives of Australia by Ann Tündern-Smith

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My friend, Nonja Peters, is a historian of Dutch migration to Australia, post-WWII migration to Western Australia, and the relationship betw...
24 May 2024

Antanas Staugaitis (1927-2003): Lithuanian DP Taxi Driver by Daina Pocius with Ann Tündern-Smith and Rasa Ščevinskienė

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Like the ill-fated Ksaveras Antanaitis , Antanas Staugaitis was one of the Lithuanian Displaced Persons or DPs selected in Germany to travel...
13 March 2024

The First Peterborough Balts, by John Mannion

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Updated 17 April 2024 I grew up on a farm in what is known as the northern agricultural area of South Australia, at Pekina, 25 miles west of...
01 March 2024

WHAT LED TO THE FIRST DISPLACED PERSONS: A TIMELINE by Ann Tündern-Smith & Department of Information staff

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I’m looking through a Department of Information file on correspondence from the Minister for Immigration (and Information, Arthur Calwell) ...