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@NZChineseGenealogy@mastodon.nz My grandmother, Wong Lui Shee, was one of those 256. She and her two children left Hong Kong for Sydney aboard the SS Dandar in 1939, then completed the journey to Auckland on SS Awatea to reunite with my grandfather. (Awatea was soon after commandeered from civilian operation into military service, before being sunk by the Luftwaffe in the North African campaign, where my other grandfather was fighting with the 21st NZ Infantry Battalion. As you might infer, everybody I described survived, and afterwards my parents were born.)