Summary

Welcome booklet issued to immigrants upon arrival in Australia, printed by GW Green & Sons, 1950 for the Vacuum Oil Company Pty. Ltd. The booklet includes a calendar for 1950/1951, information on Australia and various addresses used by the Condurateanu's when they first arrived in Australia in 1950.

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

Welcome booklet, includes calendar for 1950/1951 and information on Australia at that time. There are hand written addresses on various pages one of which is a South Australian contact, another for a Geelong Hostel and the address of the couple's first job at Walwa.

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