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KOWAL, Wolodymyr, Wira, Nata

Origin Kiev, UKRAINE
Accompanying Family Wira KOWAL (wife) - Natalia Roxana KOWAL (daughter) - Borys CUKANOWICZ (father-in-law) - Olga CUKANOWICZ (mother-in-law)
First settled in Northam Migrant Camp, Northam, WA
Original Occupation Medical Practitioner
Occupation in Australia Medical Practitioner

SKAUGUM

Departure Port Naples
Arrival Year 1950

Fremantle

64 panel

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Wolodymyr was a doctor from Kiev, captured by Germans in WWII. Worked as a doctor in the labour camps/displaced persons camps in Germany after the war. Initially sailed from Naples on the ANNA SALEN. This was stricken and passengers diverted to Aden, then sailed on the SKAUGUM to Fremantle.

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