Certificate - Repatriation, Issued to Barbara Condurateanu, 7 Aug 1947

Item

Title
Certificate - Repatriation, Issued to Barbara Condurateanu, 7 Aug 1947
Subject
Displacement
Internment camps
Romanian language
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Identification
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords
Migrant camps
displaced persons
tea
Current holder
Museums Victoria Collections
Date
August 7, 1947
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/247137
Item number
HT 585
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Romania
Language 
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
Description from source
Overall Dimensions: 20 cm (Length), 18 cm (Height) Official certificate of repatriation issued to Barbara Condurateanu on 7 August 1947, while she was in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. Barbara Condurateanu was a Romanian refugee who spent World War II in a Russian POW camp and being repatriated back to Romania, when she caught the wrong train and ended up in a German Displaced Persons camp. In the camp she met fellow Romanian refugee Nicolae Condurateanu, who had spent World War II in a German POW camp. 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 Certificate of Repatriation, includes small black and white photo. The certificate has been stamped by Romania Misiunea de Repatrieri.
Physical format
Certificates
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3595/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3596/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4253/