Summary
Booklet Certificate with record of vaccination issued to Nicolae Condurateanu in 1949. It was issued by the Medical Branch Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons Division.
Nicolae Condurateanu was a Romanian who was placed in a POW camp during World War II in Germany. He met his wife Barbara, also a Romanian, when she caught the wrong train and ended up in a German Displaced Persons camp, where Nicolae was Barbara had spent World War II in a Russian POW camp and was meant to have been on a train back to Romania. The couple married in 1948 at the A1 Heetre Camp and immigrated to Australia in 1950, where Nicolae worked in a Tea factory and Barbara at the Four and Twenty Pie factory. They had no family in Australia and had to rely on each other for support eventually purchasing a house and establishing a life in their new country.
Physical Description
Booklet printed with extensive text in English, and personal details and signatures filled out in black ink.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Ms Carla Lolicato, 15 Nov 2001
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Issued By
Medical Branch, Prisoners of War & Displaced Persons Division, Lemgo, Germany, 1949
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Issued To
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Inscriptions
Text: CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION INOCULATION IMMUNISATION / Stamp: DISPLACED PERSONS ASSEMBLY 98 CENTRE STAFF. Includes: Extensive text
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Classification
Migration, Processing - planning & departure, Medical records
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
10 cm (Length), 11 cm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
100 mm (Width), 110 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Displaced Persons, Immigration, Migrant Camps, Migrant Hostels, Migrant Reception Centres, Romanian Communities, Romanian Immigration