Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia is where the Meier family (my grand-uncle's family) ended up living.

Coordinates

Latitude: -33.868819700000
Longitude: 151.209295500000

Timeline of Events Associated with Sydney, Australia

Date Event Manage
circa. Spring 1952

Nonna Silvia's brother escapes from Yugoslavia and ends up in Sydney, Australia

After WW2, part of Italy became Yugoslavia, and the Italians had their rights and property taken away, and weren't allowed to leave the country. My Grand-Uncle Silvano Meier escaped with his wife illegaly by boat to Trieste, and wound up in Sydney, Australia. If they had been caught, they would have been shot, so they left their baby son, Dino, in the care of my Nonna Silvia for about two years. Eventually, nonna Silvia figured out a way to have baby Dino reunited with his biological parents.  Later on, when my Nonna had her own child, she chose to name him Dino, my dad. 

Dino Felluga my dad, my aunt Rosanna, and Nonna Silvia