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Tubabao. Introduction.

  • Posted by user
  • On January 29, 2018
  • 3 Comments

#Russian #Refugees. It was a forgotten story, 5000 Russians spend several years on the #Phillippines island Tubabao  in 1949-1953 (more details in Russian here).

“What do I get today?” asks this small boy looking into his daily food ration.

We have found a small trove of unknown photos in the US National Archive (College Park, MD, USA). They show the refugees life from different angles, optimistic and pessimistic.

Please check our site this week, we will be posting more of those.

What do I get today?

 

3 Comments

Thomas hunsinger
  • Jan 30 2018
I think that is my mom and my aunt in the picture and the little boys name is Richard. Please let me know if you have any info on The picture. We may have some movies from then. They were in shanghai before the went to th Philippines. Thanks tom...
Thomas hunsinger
  • Jan 30 2018
The little boy in the picture us Robert my moms cousin
Marina Coupe
  • Mar 27 2018
Dear Thomas, I am desperately looking for any information regarding my family members of whom only one made it to San Fransisco in January 1951 on a ship from the Philippines. In the Passenger list he states that he is a widower. He had a wife and two grown up married children. The names are POLIAKOFF and MIRONOFF. I wonder if these names are familiar to you, or if you know where I can get information about those refugees who were unfortunate to have died on Tubabao. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95GF-S9PQ?i=845&cc=1916078 Kind regards, Marina