Summary

Diploma issued to Katarina Pimenowa by the City of Moscow, dated 10 November 1939. It details that Katerina studied at the A I Mikojan Technical Institute of Fishing Industry from 1934 to 1939, specialising in fooding machines, apparatus and establishments and graduated as a Engineer Mechanic.

Kateryna Caurs (nee Pimenow) was born in 1915 in Luzk, Poland. A mechanical engineer, from 1946-49, she worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and later for the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). In 1950 Kateryna and her mother migrated to Australia. She married Alexander Caurs who was born in Latvia in 1926, and who migrated to Australia in 1948.

Physical Description

Blue card cover with silver Russian writing on front. Inside has black print with personal details written in black pen. Official Russian stamp.

Significance

Statement of Historical Significance:
The Caurs collection represents the experiences of wartime dislocation and post-war immigration of a family from three cultural backgrounds, Polish, Latvian and Ukrainian. The principle story represented in the collection is that of Kateryna Caurs (nee Pimenow) and is one not often told, that of a professional educated woman, a mechanical engineer, whose qualifications were recognised in Australia.

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