Her mother is Swedish but her father was a Ukrainian refugee from the Soviet Union, thus her Ukrainian surname.
His present instructions were to round up all Polish and Ukrainian refugees in the area and dispatch them home in the American lorries provided.
All Polish and Ukrainian refugees are to be sent home, and tomorrow's the final date allowed.
She is the children of Ukrainian refugees who fled to Australia to escape Stalin's purges.
And in a midtown Manhattan factory, where 25 employees work making fine jewelry 14 hours a day, the owner, a Ukrainian refugee, wonders whether he too should pack and leave.
Three weeks earlier, in Buenos Aires, Daniel Barenboim, the son of Ukrainian Jewish refugees, was born.
In May 1947, Empire Anvil transported 1,300 Ukrainian refugees from Venice, Italy to Liverpool, Lancashire.
They discovered a camp for Polish and Ukrainian refugees at Leipheim in Bavaria, which was run by a former Melbourne school teacher, Valerie Paling.
At first, Makhno and the Black Army retreated, followed by a caravan of Ukrainian refugees.