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Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.  

Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and his Polish colleagues trying to make a life in Australia in 1949 after being relocated from Europe as Displaced Persons. The picture below shows them at the Komulka camp where they were given the task of building a railroad from the gypsum...

Alice continues to relate the story of her late husband Stan Kowalski and his journey from Poland to South Australia. He and his Polish friends journey from Minnipa to Kowulka by rail, where they set up camp to work on the railway. Kowulka was in western South Australia past Ceduna, in...

Still on the journey to Kowalka in May 1949, Stan and his Polish friends caught a coastal steamer called the MV Minnipa which took them across the Gulf to Port Lincoln to catch a train to take them to a place called Minnipa! This is the story of their journey across...

Alice continues her story of Stan Domagalski, her late husband. and his journey from Poland to South Australia on the SS Goya (below).  Arriving in South Australia he was initially accommodated at the Woodside Army Camp with other post WWII migrants.    

Alice continues her story from last week about her husband Stan and his experiences in Germany during WWII.