Ebook: Silent memories, traumatic lives : Ukrainian migrant refugees in Western Australia
Author: Lesa Melnyczuk
- Tags: Ukrainians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History, Ukrainians -- Migrations, World War 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor, World War 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Europe, Ukraine -- History -- Famine 1932-1933, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Series: Welcome walls stories of migration
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Western Australian Museum
- Language: English
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Silent Memories - Traumatic Lives is a quest for understanding, an attempt to make sense of the very emotional history of the Ukrainian post-war migrants to Western Australia. Ukrainian migrants arrived in Australia by ship between 1947 and 1951, from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe, survivors of the worst of the Soviet regime's atrocities, including genocidal famine, and only recently released from forced Read more...