Certificate - Nationality, Issued to Nicolae Condurateanu, 1947

Item

Title
Certificate - Nationality, Issued to Nicolae Condurateanu, 1947
Subject
Romanian language
Identification
Displacement
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Internment camps
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords
Migrant camps
displaced persons
tea
Current holder
Museums Victoria Collections
Date
1947
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/246955
Item number
HT 828
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Romania
Language 
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
Description from source
Overall Dimensions: 21 cm (Length), 15 cm (Height) Official certificate of Nationality issued to Nicolae Condurateanu in 1947, while he was in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. The certificate confirms his Romanian nationality. 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. Foolscap paper document written in Romanian. The document has several Romanian stamps in the top left corner and a small black and white photograph of Nicolae in the top right corner.
Physical format
Certificates
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4254/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3595/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3596/