First Transport to Australia
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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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29 June 2025
The stopover in Perth, 28 November - 2 December 1947 by Ann Tündern-Smith
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We've looked already at the carefully organised disembarkation of 839 passengers from the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman in Fremantl...
16 January 2025
Vaclavs Kozlovskis travels from Perth to Bonegilla, translated by Monika Kozlovskis with Janis Sakurovs
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Updated 17 and 19 January 2025 SWANBOURNE, 29.11.47, Saturday. I slept very well in my white sheets last night, no doubt helped by the lon...
02 January 2023
Bonegilla 1947-1948: Two More Weeks, from January 14 to Australia Day by Endrius "Andrew" Jankus
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This is the sixth part of the recollections of Endrius Jankus, a Lithuanian refugee who arrived in Australia on the First Transport, the Gen...
20 December 2022
Bonegilla 1947-1948: The First Five Days (December 7-11) by Endrius "Andrew" Jankus
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Endrius Jankus, known as Andrew in Australia, was born on 7 July 1929 in Draverna, a village near the Lithuanian coastal town of Klaip ėda i...
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