USAT General Stewart

…lead: This archive has known since the Arolsen file was read that Zdravko, Ruža and Anton left for Australia in the spring of 1949. It has never known what they sailed on. It does now, and the answer came from a volunteer transcription project that has been online for twenty years. , found: t: USAT General Stewart , rows: Departure port , Naples, Italy , Departure date , 17 March 1949 , Arrival port , Melbourne, Australia , Arrival date , 13 April 1949 , Operated for , Internation…

…Passengers 0180, 0181, 0182 , DEFRANCESKI Anton · DEFRANCESKI Ruza · DEFRANCESKI Zdravko , why: Three consecutive numbers on one manifest. Anton first because the list is alphabetical by forename inside the surname, and he was nine years old. , context: The USAT General Stewart was a United States Army transport, and the list she carried out of Naples that March is a page of post-war Europe: Ābele, Abeltiņš, Ābols from Latvia; Andrusevičius, Bagdonavičius, Balčiūnas from Lithuania; Andrijczak and Babiarz from Poland; Batrachenko and Beznosenko from Ukraine; a Balogh and a Birli from Hungary. Nine hundred-odd displaced persons of a dozen nationalities…

…tatus, passport number, and the date and place the passport was issued, and occupation. The originals are in the National Archives of Australia. That is the next request, and it would give this family the same nine fields for its own three. , source_ship: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, immigrantships.net — USAT General Stewart, Naples to Melbourne, arrived 13 April 1949, transcribed volume 6; SS Ugolino Vivaldi, Fremantle, 23 February 1950, volume 5; SS Castel Bianco, 29 March 1952, volume 4. Found September 2026 through the site's own search, on a link supplied by the family. , employers: heading: The two employers, and what each of them was , lead: Three of the six worked f…

…d put online free, with no registration and no paywall, since 1998. Its post-war volumes include the International Refugee Organisation's group resettlement sailings to Australia — which is how this archive finally learned the name of the ship that carried Zdravko, Ruža and Anton out of Europe. , cites: USAT General Stewart, Naples to Melbourne, arrived 13 April 1949 — passengers 0180–0182, Defranceski Anton, Ruza and Zdravko , SS Ugolino Vivaldi, Fremantle, 23 February 1950 — De Franceschi Giuseppe, IRO 3174931 , SS Castel Bianco, 29 March 1952 — Franceschi Fernando, IRO 3177692 , note: The transcriptions carry only names and reference numbers; the originals, in the Na…

…-persons and camp records , when: 2026 , outcome: yield , got: The 1949 sailing and the word «apatride». , src: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild , what: Post-war IRO sailings to Australia , when: Sept 2026 , outcome: yield , got: The USAT General Stewart, Naples to Melbourne, April 1949, passengers 0180–0182. , src: istrianet.org , what: The Kobler and Carlo De Franceschi pages, and the bibliography of his works , when: Sept 2026 , outcome: yield , got: The complete bibliography of Carlo's published writings, which is what led to the «Memorie autobiografiche». Also a cle…