Subject	Romanian language
	Identification
	Displacement
	Australia–Emigration and immigration—History
	Internment camps
Category	5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords	Migrant camps
	displaced persons
	tea
Current Holder	Museums Victoria Collections
Date	1947
Item Number	HT 828
Access Rights	Digitised
Country Of Origin	Romania
Language	Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
Description From Source	Overall Dimensions: 21 cm (Length), 15 cm (Height) Official certificate of Nationality issued to Nicolae Condurateanu in 1947, while he was in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. The certificate confirms his Romanian nationality. Nicolae Condurateanu was a Romanian who was placed in a POW camp during World War II in Germany. He met his wife Barbara, also a Romanian, when she caught the wrong train and ended up in a German Displaced Persons camp, where Nicolae was. Barbara had spent World War II in a Russian POW camp and was meant to have been on a train back to Romania. The couple married in 1948 at the A1 Heetre Camp and immigrated to Australia in 1950, where Nicolae worked in a Tea factory and Barbara at the Four and Twenty Pie factory. They had no family in Australia and had to rely on each other for support eventually purchasing a house and establishing a life in their new country. Foolscap paper document written in Romanian. The document has several Romanian stamps in the top left corner and a small black and white photograph of Nicolae in the top right corner.
Physical Format	Certificates
Related Resources	https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4254/
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	https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3596/