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Szkirka Maria & George (Dmytro)

Leaving Ukraine did not mean leaving your cultural heritage. In the 1950s, the young Szkirka couple arrived in Geelong, Australia to join the Ukrainian Geelong community which has sustained its cultural heritage for over 70 years.

In 1924, George (Dmytro) Szkirka was born near Lviv in Eastern Ukraine. In 1941, he was a lad when the war broke out between the USSR and Germany; he was forcibly taken…

Contributors

  • Dr Natalie Senjov-Makohon

Subject

  • Ukrainian diaspora
  • Ukrainian Women’s Association in Australia
  • Immigration to Australia
  • Emigration from Ukraine
  • Choirs
  • …
  • Multiethnic societies
  • Australia
  • Migrants
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/a290d440-9a41-0136-2c95-6eee0af519c6#agent-a291be30-9a41-0136-2c95-6eee0af519c6
  • Ukraine

Contributors

  • Dr Natalie Senjov-Makohon

Subject

  • Ukrainian diaspora
  • Ukrainian Women’s Association in Australia
  • Immigration to Australia
  • Emigration from Ukraine
  • Choirs
  • …
  • Multiethnic societies
  • Australia
  • Migrants
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/a290d440-9a41-0136-2c95-6eee0af519c6#agent-a291be30-9a41-0136-2c95-6eee0af519c6
  • Ukraine

Providing institution

  • Europeana Foundation

Aggregator

  • Europeana Foundation

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Places

  • Schartzweld, Germany
  • Geelong, Australia
  • Lviv
  • Lviv
  • Ukraine

Identifier

  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/a290d440-9a41-0136-2c95-6eee0af519c6

Language

  • en
  • eng

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 2084002_Ag_EU_Migration_ugc

First time published on Europeana

  • 2019-07-25T07:45:37.914Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z
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