Summary

Romanian Calander for the year 1949, used by Nicolae and Barbara Condurateanu while in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. There are handwritten notes inside which include several addresses, with one in Canberra and a list of names.

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

Printed 1949 calendar booklet, with Romanian text. Each page represents a week. There are handwritten notes inside the calander.

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