This is a photo of my mother, Larissa, as a baby on the knee of her father, Vladimir Podusteanu and her mother, Adele Wishas. Photo-00 is some 80 years old. It is surprising that it survived W.W.2, many displacement and many adventures. My grandmother, Adele Podusteanu was born in Estonia/ Estland.
Google translated the Romanian as: "Extract from the register of civil status for birth year 1922" which is the birth certificate for my mother Larisa Podusteanu/ Larissa (senior) Lenskyj. |
Genealogy details for Photo-00:
pob: Lapusna, Moldova Citation: Death Notice. The
Manning River Times. m.: {my biological father} Vladimir Stoica 07.Jan.1940 Cioara Falsin {Bessarabia} present day Moldova=============
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Genealogy for Vladimir & Adele:
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My birth place, the Schloss Losensteinleiten is in the background. To see my amusing baby legs in knee-high socks clearly, please click on the photo. |
Australian immigration processed us dockside Sydney NSW and then transported us by railway to the Bathurst migrant camp. After a short stay we were sent to Cowra migrant camp and then on to the Parkes RAAF migrant camp where I learned English for the first time in the camp school. When our two year work contract expired we left Parkes for Old Jindabyne NSW where my mother and her new husband Michael Lenskyj had found jobs in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme.
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This certificate records her arrival in Melbourne Vic. on "25 Apr. 1951 per (ss) Fairsea." The pages called "Changes of Address" record the following entries: "7.5.(19)51 Holding Centre Parkes NSW. 29.3.(19)52 Migrant Holding Centre Cowra NSW. 30.3.(19)52 (Old) Jindabyne via Cooma NSW 21.11.(19)53 The Cedars Londonderry NSW." - Note: This small 14 acre farm became our permanent residence for the next 35 years! My grandparents died here. My two brothers and my sister were born here. From here I went to Richmond Primary and Richmond High schools, NSW and then on to the University of Sydney.
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My grandmother Adele was holding my hand, my mother Larissa had me by the shoulders. My uncle Eugen, his fiancèe Inge and my grandfather, Vladimir, in the rear rank, were there to make me stay still in this photo. The location was on Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse near the intersection of Dingshauser Strasse in Solingen. We were living in one room on the third floor of a house on Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse in the UNRRA URL displaced persons (DP) camp in Solingen, Germany. |
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My O.C. told me that some in my brigade were rumored to be sent to Vietnam. Me? I resigned and made plans to travel to Bahrain or Canada... Canada won. =========== On 7. January 1966 I married in St. Michael's Anglican Church in Vaucluse. See photo NSW State Library collections, Australia. The following morning we boarded a cruise ship. We emigrated to Toronto Ontario Canada where I had prearranged a job as a design engineer with a consulting engineering firm. Our two children were born in St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. |
