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Letter from W.H. Barnwell [The Australian Migration Team] to Miss Konstancija Brunzaite
Letter from W.H. Barnwell [The Australian Migration Team] to Miss Konstancija Brunzaite

Letter from W.H. Barnwell [The Australian Migration Team] to Miss Konstancija Brunzaite

Date3 November 1947
Object number00003842
NameLetter
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 95 x 150 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from the Australian Lithuanian Community
HistoryOn 30 October 1947 USAT General Stuart Heintzelman left Bremerhaven with 843 displaced persons from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 November 1947. General Stuart Heintzelman carried migrants to Australian three more times, arriving in Melbourne with 822 refugees on 20 April 1948, in Sydney with 1301 on 24 November 1949, and in Melbourne with 1302 on 3 March 1950