Katrin Rubasko - Correspondence after World War II

Item

Title
Katrin Rubasko - Correspondence after World War II
Subject
South Australia
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
Displacement
Manuscripts, Latvian
Baltic States
European letters
Correspondence
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author
Rubasko, Katrin
Keywords
displaced persons
Current holder
State Library of South Australia
Period of reference 
1945 – 1966
Link
catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2189602~S1
Item number
PRG 1281/4
Access rights
Request at location
Rights 
Copyright Undetermined
Country of origin
Latvia
Germany
Australia
France
Place
Port Pirie
Adelaide
Sydney
Language 
Latvian
English
Description from source
4 cm, Manuscript handwritten typed.

A letter in Latvian on German notepaper soon after the liberation of Europe; a similar one in 1946; letters ca.1945 in Latvian from Katrin's family with the address of the American commander of their displaced persons camp; a letter to Katrin from Paris in Latvian dated 1946; the only letter from Katrin (carbon, unsigned) Port Pirie in 1946, written to the commander of the family's displaced persons' camp; a letter from Kadina SA in English to Katrin in Port Pirie from a friend in 1947; eighteen letters to Katrin in Latvian from her family in Germany in 1947 and 1948; and a souvenir card from Sydney to Katrin's sister in Adelaide in 1966.
Physical format
Manuscripts
Letters
Correspondence
Postcards
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/2253/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3222/
https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2187916~S1