Popowicz Michael and Marta

Marta and Michael, like many of their Ukrainian Geelong compatriots after World War Two, applied for migration to Australia. And in late 1948, on the ship Volendam, they departed Holland for Sydney, Australia, on which they enjoyed a Christmas dinner. Both Marta and Michael Popowicz were born in Ukraine.

Michael Popowicz was born in 1917 in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine. In 1939, he was enlis…