Summary

Romanian Calander for the year 1950, printed by Gladen Halender, used by Nicolae and Barbara Condurateanu during their journey from a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany to Australia. 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

Double sided cardboard calender for 1950 with the year divided between the front and back of the board. Many dates have handwritten notes against them in Romanian.

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