Post-war diary of German migrant Guenter Grunow
Item
- Title
- Post-war diary of German migrant Guenter Grunow
- Subject
- Germany--Emigration and immigration
- Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
- Australia--Social life and customs
- Emigration and immigration
- Assisted emigration
- German diaries
- German language--Writing
- Melbourne (Vic.)
- Correspondence
- Category
- 5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
- Author
- Grunow, Guenter
- Creator
- Gotzky, Benno
- Current holder
- State Library of Victoria
- Period of reference
- 1951 – 1990
- Date
- January 1, 1951
- Series number
- MS 16467
- Item number
- 9940557462407636
- Access rights
- Request at location
- Rights
-
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- Country of origin
- Germany
- Australia
- Language
- German
- Description from source
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Full title: Post-war diary of German migrant Guenter Grunow : manuscripts, printed, photographs, 1951-1990. 6 cm. A bound diary of Guenter Grunow, written in German, 113 pages in blue ink, covering from December 1951 to April 1953. Guenter Grunow left Bremen, Germany, on 4 January 1952, on the "MS Nelly", and arrived in Melbourne on 9 February 1952. The migrant ship MS Nelly carried German migrants under the bilateral German-Australia assisted passage scheme, enabling migrants to work as directed for the Commonwealth of Australia for two years, in exchange for a heavily reduced fare. Grunow was 21 when he arrived. The diary discusses his day-to-day life in Germany, and life in Australia after arrival. Also included are Valentine's snapshots of Bendigo, (published by The Valentine Publishing Co., probably in 1950); newspaper cutting of an article "Leaving Nelly"; and a selection of 81 German postcards, addressed to migrants Benno and Beverley Gotzky in Melbourne, 1956-1990.
- Physical format
- Manuscripts
- Diaries
- Photographs
- Newspapers
- Postcards
- Related resources
- https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/2261/
- https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/1900/
- http://nla.cat-vn3004272
- Bibliographic citation