Letters from Valdemars and Zigrida Petersons to family in Sweden

Title: Letters from Valdemars and Zigrida Petersons to family in Sweden
Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Refugees; Displacement; Manuscripts, Latvian; Voyages and travels; Ship letters; Australia--Emigration and immigration—History; Emigration and immigration; Families--History; New South Wales--History
Category: 4. World War II; 5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords: displaced persons
Creator: Petersons, Valdemars Vladislavs
Current holder: State Library of New South Wales
Period of reference: January 24, 1949 – November 11, 1953
Date: January 24, 1949
Link: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDqMV1
Series number: MLMSS 8567/Box 1X
Item number: Y0KDqMV1
Access rights: Request at location
Rights: Copyright status: In copyright

Approval for reproduction required: From the copyright owner. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright owner
Country of origin: Australia
Language: Latvian; English
Description from source: 0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript. Individual letters were paper-clipped together; this arrangement was kept.

Includes 15 handwritten letters, in Latvian, from Valdemars and Zigrida to his sister Maij and to other family members. Also included are 12 handwritten translations of selected letters into English. Three of the letters are written whilst on board ship on their way to Australia.
Physical format: Letters