This file, researched by Ruby Todorovski researcher at the University of Queensland includes documents regarding people who wanted to migrate to Australia after the war and issues regarding the repatriation of service people.
See also:
Evacuees from Netherlands East Indies recuperating in Australia after WWII
Links to declassified WWII Australian Documents re the Netherlands East Indies
The Sanders family’s story first appeared on the Benalla Migrant Camp Inc. website. It is reproduced here at the request of Ellen Sanders and with permission from Benalla Migrant Camp Inc., with some adjustments made Read more
This chapter by anthropologist and oral historian Renate Stapelbroek, Met z’n tweeën in een vreemd land (“The two of us in a strange land”) – published in: in Vughtse Historische Reeks (VHR) (Vught 2013) 13, Read more
Walter Hes started life in the Netherlands. His Roman Catholic rigid thinking was shaken up by the unfriendly break-up of his first marriage, emigration to controversial South Africa in the 70s having to leave 2 Read more