Summary

Certificate of Birth and Baptism issued to Aleksanders (Alexander) Caurs by the Clerical Office of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ansbach District, Germany, dated 22 April 1948. It certifies that Aleksanders Caurs was born on 12 July 1926 at Riha and was baptised on 30 July 1926 at Riha. It also lists his parent's details.

Alexander was born in Latvia in 1926, and migrated to Australia in 1948. He married Kateryna Caurs (nee Pimenow) who was born in 1915 in Luzk, Poland. A mechanical engineer, 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.

Physical Description

Soft thin orange paper with typed black text and two blue stamps of 'Clerical Office of the Gr Orth Church District Ansbach', and one blue stamp of 'Mitted archpriest Stefan Rychlicki'.

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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