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Bathurst to Greta, June 1949

Bathurst Reception Centre → Greta Migrant Camp

The first large transfers from Bathurst reached Greta in early June 1949. Greta was a reception and holding centre in the Hunter Valley with two distinctive sections, Chocolate City with brown weatherboard buildings and Silver City with corrugated-iron huts. June brought transfers from another Australian reception centre, while August brought arrivals directly through Newcastle.

Early June 1949

The first large transfers from Bathurst reach Greta

Sources

Gretel Evans, Remembering Two Cities: Generational Memories of the Greta Army and Migrant Camp, 1939–2020, Studies in Oral History, 2022

Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, Greta Migrant Camp 1949–1960

1949 to 1954

Ukrainian families make homes in Chocolate City and Silver City

Sources

Australian War Memorial, Greta place record

Governor-General David Hurley, Greta Army Camp and Greta Migrant Camp anniversary weekend, 2019

Documents

Sources

Gretel Evans, Remembering Two Cities: Generational Memories of the Greta Army and Migrant Camp, 1939–2020, Studies in Oral History, 2022

Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, Greta Migrant Camp 1949–1960

Australian War Memorial, Greta place record

Governor-General David Hurley, Greta Army Camp and Greta Migrant Camp anniversary weekend, 2019