Summary
Digital Audio Tape of an interview with Anna and Ervin Apinis about their migration experiences following World War II. Anna Apinis was born in 1913 in Latvia. She attended weaving lessons in Liepaja in Latvia from 1930 to 1933 and spent hours at the nearby Liepaja Ethnographic Museum, recording traditional fabric designs in her notebooks. Anna had a loom constructed for her by fellow (male) survivors of World War II at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. Anna migrated to Australia in 1950, with her father Ernest, husband Ervins and their son Erik, her precious loom came also. This was a blessing as her obsession with weaving helped to ease the pain of displacement and separation that she and her husband Ervins felt in their new land.
Description of Content
An oral history interview in two parts (recorded over two separate sessions) about the migration experience of the late Anna and Ervin Apinis after World War II. The interview covers their time spent in a displaced persons camp in Germany, their arrival in Australia, and their initial accommodation in the Parkes and Greta migrant camps in New South Wales.
Physical Description
Two Digital Audio Tapes
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Place & Date Recorded
101 Sommerville Road, Yarraville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06 Oct 1997
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Interviewer
Marianna Auliciems - Museum Victoria - Immigration Museum, Yarraville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06 Oct 1997
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Interviewee
Anna Apinis, Yarraville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06 Oct 1997
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Interviewee
Ervin Apinis, Yarraville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06 Oct 1997
Anita Apinis-Herman was present for help with translating. -
Translator
Mrs Anita Apinis-Herman, Yarraville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06 Oct 1997
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Content Summary
Liepaja, Latvia; Memmingen, Germany; Parkes and Greta, NSW
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Format
Magnetic carrier, Digital Audio Tape (DAT) cassette
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Language
English
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Classification
Cultural identity, Ethnicity - creative practice, Oral histories
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Keywords
Artistic Practices, Crafts, Latvian Immigration, Looms, Migrant Camps, Migrants, Migration & Settlement, Wars & Conflicts, Weaving, World War II, 1939-1945, Refugees, Displaced Persons, Displaced Persons Camps