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24 May 2025
Povilas Laurinavičius, Another Who Left Australia, by Daina Pocius, Ann Tündern-Smith and Rasa Ščevinskiene
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Povilas Laurinavicius worked on his Lithuanian parent’s farm until August 1944. He then was conscripted into the Luftwaffe, the German air ...
29 October 2024
Helmuts Oskars Upe (1926-2018): Sheet Metal Worker by Ann Tündern-Smith
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Helmuts Upe was easier to track down than many other First Transport arrivals because he was married to a cousin of a Dutch-born friend of m...
03 January 2024
Vytautas Stasiukynas (1920 –?): The Vet Who Found Happiness in South America by Daina Pocius with Rasa Ščevinskienė and Ann Tündern-Smith
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Updated 18 July 2024. One of the Lithuanians in the First Transport group sent to Goliath Cement at Railton, Tasmania, was a Doctor of Veter...
06 April 2023
Povilas Niaura (1919-2006): A Settled Settler, by Ann Tündern-Smith
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Updated 2 January 2024. Povilas Niaura recovered enough from the terrors of the war in Lithuania and Germany to settle happily in Tasmania....
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