MS Goya was a Norwegian refugee ship that carried hundreds of Eastern European refugees to New Zealand in 1951. Most notably it carried several men who went on to play a significant role in the development of the New Zealand Muslim Association including Mazhar Krasniqi and Nazmi Mehmeti.
1080/02666958208715860. Dalziel, Lianne (27 September 2001). "New Zealand Enriched by SSGoya Migrants". New Zealand Government. Archived from the original on 29 May...
Goya was a Norwegian motor freighter used as a troop transport by Nazi Germany and sunk with a massive loss of life near the end of World War II. Completed...
Nazmi Mehmeti (1918-1995), also recorded as “Mehmetovitch” on the SSGoya. Mehmeti was an Albanian born on 25 March 1918 in Rečane, Macedonia, near Gostivar...
there were 67 recorded Muslims in New Zealand. In 1951, the refugee boat SSGoya brought over 60 Muslim men from Albania and Yugoslavia, boosting the Muslim...
the UN's International Refugee Organization (IRO). Traveling on the ship SSGoya, an impoverished Krasniqi reached Wellington, New Zealand during May 1951...
persons arrived in Wellington in May, August and December 1951 on the SSGOYA, from Piraeus, Greece. Although most arrivals were placed in jobs in Wellington...
Oxygen in Copper." In 1950, Przybylski emigrated to Australia aboard the SSGoya. There, he spent five months as a manual laborer for the Postmaster General's...
was formally established. Auckland resident Mazhar Krasniqi (an Albanian SSGoya refugee from Kosovo) was the inaugural president, Dr Hajji Hanif Quazi...
Z25 and Z5 Paul Jacobi escorted the ocean liner Potsdam, the troopship SSGoya and the target ship Canonier as they ferried 22,000 refugees to Copenhagen...
transports left Hela with over 20,000 soldiers and civilians. On April 16, the Goya was torpedoed and sunk by L-3, with the loss of over 6,000 lives; 183 survived...
54°41′N 16°51′E / 54.683°N 16.850°E / 54.683; 16.850 SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German...
USS Bullhead (SS-332), a Balao-class submarine, was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that an atomic...
life at sea (though with the estimates of the worst shipwrecks like the Goya also being 7,000, it is unknown which is worse. The immense loss of life...
20-room mansion was filled with valuable art work (Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya, Jan Sluyters, etc.) and he held vast areas of real estate. In 1976, the...
1985) is a Spanish actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2010. Carolina Bang was born in Santa Cruz...
doctorate from the Florida State University with a thesis on 24 Caprichos de Goya by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; in 1994 she was the first musician to record...
Open Space, Nkporn Eleme Aleto Open Space, Ebe-Ele; School Hall, Chapere; Goya Okoro Open Space, Chapere; Town Hall, Isiogu; Town Hall, Okerewa; Ewuu Hall...
USS Baya (SS/AGSS-318), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the baya. During World War II, she completed five war patrols...
miniseries. Triumph und Tragödie der Wilhelm Gustloff, 2012. Germany portal MV Goya, another ship taking part in Operation Hannibal, was also sunk by a Soviet...
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