On a summer's day in 1947, four small children excitedly boarded a huge ship. The O' Rourkes lived at a children's home in Belfast, and the nuns who ran it said they were sending them to England on a two-week holiday.
Instead, the SS Asturias finally docked at Fremantle, Western Australia, where a new group of nuns stripped and deloused the children, and announced they would never go home: their parents had been killed. It was a cruel lie.
http://lisburn.com/pdf_files/child-migrants.pdf
Instead, the SS Asturias finally docked at Fremantle, Western Australia, where a new group of nuns stripped and deloused the children, and announced they would never go home: their parents had been killed. It was a cruel lie.
http://lisburn.com/pdf_files/child-migrants.pdf
