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Back Issues: Recreating a little bit of Latvia
- Description
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees, displaced persons after World War 2, started arriving at a camp in Pahiatua in 1949. This article describes the story of Lucija (Lucy) Ozolins née Upenajs who came to New Zealand with her husband Martins and brother-in law Nikolajs Zvaigzne from Latvia. After six weeks at the camp in Pahiatua, they settled in Palmerston North.
Lucy's story is part of the Untold Stories project, which describes the experiences of the immigrants who spent time at the Pahiatua camp.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Content type
- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- June 8, 2024
- Digitisation ID
- 2024Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_042263
- Format
- Born Digital