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...
25 May 2024

Naming the 64-65 Balts to Bedford Park, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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The names below come from a Department of Labour and National Service list of those its Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) was sending to...
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...
21 May 2024

Artur Klaar (1919-1970): Economics student, accountant, Estonian

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Updated 18 July 2024 We've met Artur Klaar already as the fellow Estonian who befriended Flaavi Hodunov in Peterborough.  It's poss...
13 May 2024

Balts at Bangham (1948-49): Photographs, by Ann Tündern-Smith and Tatyana Tamm

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Updated 26 May 2024. Tatyana Tamm kindly has supplied a number of photographs of the Displaced Persons sent to work at Bangham, South Austra...
07 May 2024

More about Flaavi Hodunov (1927-2023): SAR Train Driver by Tatyana Tamm

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Flaavi Hodunov was born in Estonia in 1927. He was passenger 201 on the General Stuart Heintzelman , the first ship to bring displaced pers...
24 April 2024

Ksaveras Antanaitis (1911-1948), An Earlier Work-related Death, by Rasa Ščevinskienė

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Even before Miervaldis Indriksons was killed by a workplace accident in South Australia ( see previous entry ) another First Transport man ...