First Transport to Australia

03 August 2024

Balts at Bedford Park, Ksaveras Antanaitis' brief home by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Bedford Park in Adelaide now is home now to Flinders University and the Flinders Medical Centre, as well as many private homes. In the 19th ...
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18 July 2024

Veronika Tutins (1911–2006), who disappeared? by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Updated 4 August 2024 Veronika Tutins was a great friend of two other Latvian women from the First Transport, sisters Irina and Galins Vasin...
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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...
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