First Transport to Australia
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...
30 June 2025
Lost luggage, by Ann Tündern-Smith
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Not all about the Heintzelman voyage was happiness. Lost luggage spoiled the trip for several. Nikolajs Bergtals: see below for his '...
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...
27 June 2025
Roberts Miezitis, who was thankful, by Ann Tündern-Smith
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Born in 1909, Latvian Roberts Miezitis was one of the older passengers on the First Transport, the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman. His spo...
25 June 2025
14 June 1941 in the Baltic States: Why We are Here in Australia, by ChatGPT with Ann Tündern-Smith
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The First Soviet Mass Deportations and Their Legacy On 14 June 1941 , horror descended upon the Baltic States. In the dead of night, the So...
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