Border guards in Italy, November 1948

Date1948

Object numberANMS0287[036]

NamePhotograph

MediumBlack and white photographic print on paper.

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Alex Newman

Terms

Italy
Convicts, Migrants and Refugees
Immigration
Paper - photographic prints

DescriptionAt the border, about to enter Italy from Austria, two Italian border guards walk beside the train. In October 1948 Czech refugee Alex Nypl obtained a visa to settle in Australia while at the displaced persons camp in Lugwigsburg, southern Germany. In November of that year he was sent by train 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.