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SOKOLOWSKA, Jadwiga 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

Deported, aged 8, to Arkhangelsk, Northern Siberia in 1940. Following Sikorski-Majski Treaty journeyed south with her family, crossed Caspian Sea...

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SOKOLOWSKA, Janina 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

10th of February 1940 will stay in our memories forever. At dawn a widowed mother of six: Stefania, Wanda, Urszula, Franciszek, Jadwiga and Janina...

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SOKOLOWSKA, Maria 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

10th of February 1940 will stay in our memories forever. At dawn a widowed mother of six: Stefania, Wanda, Urszula, Franciszek, Jadwiga and Janina...

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SOKOLOWSKA, Urszula 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

10th of February 1940 will stay in our memories forever. At dawn a widowed mother of six: Stefania, Wanda, Urszula, Franciszek, Jadwiga and Janina...

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SOKOLOWSKA, Wanda 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

Deported, aged 15, to forced labour in Arkhangelsk, Northern Siberia, February 1940. Following Sikorski-Majski Treaty, journeyed south and fled...

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SOKOLOWSKI, Franciszek 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

Deported to Siberia in 1940 with mother and five sisters. Put in orphanage in Kirgistan. Reunited with family in Pahlevi, Iran. Eventually spent...

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SINICCO Family 1950 SURRIENTO

Pio's wife Giulia and their children Vilma (15) and twins Franco and Mina (11) joined Pio at Bindoon. The children went to boarding colleges at...

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SCHYNKARUK, Johann & Thekla 1950 SKAUGUM

Johann escaped from Poland before the war. Was in Germany during war and met Thekla. They married, 1946 and migrated to Perth 1950. Johann was a...

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SCHERINI, Giovanni 1950 SURRIENTO 188
STEFANELLI, Giovanni 1950 SURRIENTO 188
SOSZYNSKA, Sabina & Family 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

My tragedy began in 1939 when the Russians invaded Eastern Poland and arrested my father, he was never found. We were deported to Siberia near...

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SANSONI Family 1950 STRATHAIRD 196
SZKIELA, Stanislaw & Irma 1950 ANNA SALEN 196
SOCHACKI, Bronislaw & Maria 1950 FAIRSEA

Bruno & Maria met in a displaced persons camp after WW2 in West Germany and were unwilling to return to either Poland or Russia. They married...

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SANTINI, Michele 1950 SURRIENTO 199
SPRANCIS, Aina & Ansis 1950 FAIRSEA

Ansis was a conductor of the Latvian Mixed and Mens choirs and played in a band called the Ambassadors at many migrant balls. Aina was a member of...

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STONE, Alf, Ada, Ron & Sue 1950 CAMERONIA

Our sponsor family were killed on a railway crossing in Pinjarra within 12 months of arrival. Lived in a tent at Riverton before finally finding...

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SCAF, John, Pam & Family 1950 MAETSUYCKER

SCAF family moved into their own home in 1954. Pam (83 years) still lives in the same house, 12 Arnott Street, North Beach. Started with 3 sons...

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SHAW, Albert 1950 CAMERONIA 219
SCHEPIS, Rosa (ORLANDO) 1950 UGOLINO VIVALDI

My parents came to Australia seeking better opportunities. They worked hard and achieved a good life.

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SOMMERVILLE, Tom & Isobel 1950 CHESHIRE

On route to Snowy Mt Scheme.

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SITARZ, Jozef & Annaliese 1950 FAIRSEA

Father - born in Poland 1924 (Jozef). German Labour Force 1940. Mother - born in Furth, Germany (Annaliese) 1929. Married 1947. Migrated with 2...

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STEPIEN, Jozef & Brigitte 1950 ANNA SALEN 227
SCAFFIDI, Antonino & Maria 1950 UGOLINO VIVALDI

Both came to Australia for a new and better life. Had 2 sons in Perth. Antonino first worked as a stonemason then a builder. Maria was a...

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SAFFIOTI, Rocco 1950 UGOLINO VIVALDI 231
SNIEGOWSKI, Janina 1950 SKAUGUM 231
SEATH Family 1950 SOMERSETSHIRE 233
SWIFT, Diane, Jane & Norma 1950 EMPIRE BRENT 234
SWIFT, Thomas & Joyce 1950 EMPIRE BRENT 234
SWAN, Michael 1950 DORSETSHIRE 235
SANFILIPPO, Carmelo 1950 SKAUGUM 237
SZOLKOWSKI, Pawel & Klara 1950 FAIRSEA

Pawel lost his first wife & 4 sons in WW2. Remarried Klara in Lindau Germany 1947. Settled in Greenbushes 1950, working on the railways. Had 3...

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SMIGIEL, Antoni & Stefania 1950 SKAUGUM

Boarded the SKAUGUM after the first ship we were on broke down in the Red Sea.

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SONNENBERG, Elfrieda Agnes 1950 ANNA SALEN 261
STASIUK, Michael & Maria 1950 FAIRSEA

Originally from Ukraine & Russia, Michael & Maria Stasiuk with 3 children in tow, began their new life in Perth in 1950. They proudly...

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SANZOGNI, Lorenzo 1950 UGOLINO VIVALDI

In 1950 Lorenzo Sanzogni & his brother left war devastated Italy to join their uncle,Faustino Rivadossi, a retired gold miner. He was joined...

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SOTTILE, Salvatore 1950 NAPOLI 269
SPUTORE, Nicola 1950 SEBASTIANO CABOTO

Nicola had an older brother here in Perth but left all his family in Italy. His wife Maria Giuseppa (nee Iustini) & son Antonio joined him 18...

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SCHIRRIPA, Concetta 1950 SEBASTIANO CABOTO 270
SLAWINSKI, Stanislaw & Maria 1950 DUNDALK BAY

Lived in Northam Camp, Lake Biddy, Wagin. They had a hard working & difficult life. Richard, Krys & Geoff born in Western Australia. Dad...

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SIMONIDES, Kyriakos 1950 SEBASTIANO CABOTO

Kastellorizo is a Greek island in the Dodecanese group, which was devastated in WWII. Family were refugees in Palestine. He came to Australia to...

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SPIREK, Jan 1950 SKAUGUM 289
SOULIOS, Dimitrios 1950 SEBASTIANO CABOTO 294
SCIASCIA, Giuseppina 1950 SURRIENTO

Arrived in Australia to join her husband after 12 years apart.

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SCIASCIA, Luigi & Bice 1950 SURRIENTO 307
SOTER, Olga 1950 SKAUGUM 307
SEKULLA, Francois 1950 SKAUGUM 304
SMITH, Stanley Norman 1950 ORMONDE 304
STELMACH Family 1950 SKAUGUM

Taken by German regime to work in Austria during WW2, never saw or heard from his Polish family again, displaced person.

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SITA, Francesco 1950 NAPOLI

Sita family well known in the Perth building & construction Industry.Francesco & Maria established family business Osborne Ceilings .3...

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