Train station - leaving Europe

Date1948

Object numberANMS0287[032]

NamePhotograph

MediumBlack and white photographic print on paper.

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Alex Newman

Terms

railways
Convicts, Migrants and Refugees
Immigration
Paper - photographic prints

DescriptionCzech migrant Alex Nypl obtained a visa to settle in Australia in October 1948 while at the displaced persons camp in Lugwigsburg, southern Germany. In November of that year he was sent by train with other migrants to Genoa in Italy. The train went via Austria for which he was given a transit visa. In Genoa he boarded the SS PROTEA which departed for Australia on the 16th of November 1948.