RESCUED FROM NAZIS
Dalmatian-Born New Zealander
N.Z.E.F. Officiai News Sebvice. CAIRO, June 19. Among people rescued by the Allies from the Germans is a New Zealander, Peter Anich, who had returned to his native land with his wife and son, aged two years, in 1938. Anich had emigrated from Dalmatia at the turn of the last century, when 15 years old. He became a naturalized New Zealander, and finally settled at Matamata, where he conducted a general store. When the Nazis spread over Europe, he decided to return to the country of his birth and play a part in the struggle. He settled on an island off the Yugoslav coast, buying a share in a butchery business, and in the next few years built up a supply centre for the forces in revolt against the Germans. When the Nazis threatened the island. Anich and his family departed, with the approval of the local Partisan commander, and now they are in Italy, from where he hopes to get back to New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 4
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171RESCUED FROM NAZIS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 4
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