Zita Nash immigration narrative and photographs

MLMSS 11838/Box 1X

fonds

1920s-1940s, 1975

9669894

0.26 metres of textual and graphic material (1 outsize box) - 24.5 x 30 cm

The Nash (anglicised from Nacht) family were a Jewish family living in Bucharest, Romania, before the Second World War. On 18 November 1940, Joseph and Madeleine Nash, along with their children Rosita (born c 1923) and John, left their home, not knowing where they would settle. Their immigration journey took them through Istanbul, Ankara, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Habbaniyah, Basra, Karachi, Calcutta (Kolkata), Darjeeling, Singapore, Batavia (Jakarta), Surabaya, Darwin, Townsville and Brisbane, before they landed in a flying boat at Rose Bay, Sydney, on 22 April 1941.   Joseph bought a block of flats at 59 Wolseley Road Point Piper and Rosita and John attended school locally. Joseph was later interned as an enemy alien after Romania entered the War allied to Germany. After the War, Joseph and Madeleine moved to France.  Reference: Library acquisition file

1 cloth bound photograph album containing a handwritten immigration account, with related photographs and a hand-drawn map. Created by Rosita 'Zita' Nash for her nephew Jeremy Nash in 1975, recounting the journey Zita took with her family from Rumania (Romania) to Sydney during the Second World War. The journal includes family photographs that date to approximately 1920s, and photographs taken during the journey to Australia, 1940-1941.

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