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Field name | Value |
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Title | Oral History with Ilga Bormanis |
Date | 20 Jul 2009 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Bormanis, Ilga |
Interviewer | Schwinghamer, Steven |
Date of Recording | 20 Jul 2009 |
Duration | 00:04:16 |
Reference | 09.07.20IB |
Library / Archive | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |
Description | Ilga Bormanis arrived from Latvia as a displaced person in 1950. She describes the process of emigrating to Canada through Germany just after the end of the Second World War and explains the medical and political checks emigrants underwent before being allowed to board ships. |
Theme(s) | Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Displaced Persons and Refugees |
Country (from) | Latvia |
Country (to) | Canada |
Places | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Ports | Bremerhaven, Germany |
Nationality | Latvian |
Keywords | camp, railway, medical staff, health and sickness, tuberculosis, disease, politics, medical examination |
Language | English |
Copyright | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |