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Poland honours Australian grandmother for wartime efforts

Ada Murkies at 95
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A 95-year-old grandmother who endured deportation from occupied Poland to remote Siberia during the Second World War has been honoured in Melbourne by Poland.


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By Phillippa Carisbrooke

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A 95-year-old grandmother who endured deportation from occupied Poland to remote Siberia during the Second World War has been honoured in Melbourne by Poland.



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