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Kiril Angelov Ekimsky, born 1925, in Lom, Bulgaria. Migrated to Australia in the 1950s.

Kiril was a wild young man who left Bulgaria for Germany in 1943 to study radio technology. He left Germany in 1948, and the family's next contact was a phone call from Australia in October 1957. He gave his address as the Loco Depot in Traralgon. The family corresponded regularly from 1985 until 1992, when the letters from Kiril ceased. He had changed his name to Cyril Angeloff, and his last address was a post office box in Newport.

Todor Ivanov Todorov, migrated to Australia around 1951 via migrant camps in Yugoslavia and Italy.

Todor, a foreign languages student, left home on New Year's Day 1950, ostensibly for a short holiday. He did not return. His mother Petra and father Ivan feared he was dead until receiving a letter from a camp in Italy a year later. Todor had defected because the communist authorities would not allow him to study abroad. Todor left Italy for Australia, where he began working as a gardener. He corresponded regularly with his mother, saying he had friends and led a quiet life. His mother asked him to return home, but he was afraid he would be jailed as an illegal emigrant. His mother died in 1973, but Todor refused family pleas to return for the funeral.

Todor remained in phone contact until 1978, when his father died. His niece Jordanka Ivanova says her uncle then called one last time to say that Bulgaria was now only a memory for him. Jordanka is hoping to find her uncle, who is missed by his siblings, nieces and nephews.

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Christo Georgiev Christov (Pyuckeliev), born 1921, in Goliam Dervent, Bulgaria. Christo is being sought by his niece Nikolina (Nina) Pyuskelieva, who says no one in the family ever dared to say why her uncle fled Bulgaria in 1948. They know he was in a Turkish migrant camp between 1948 and 1951, then travelled to Australia. "For first and last time my grandmother Kuna and grandfather George had received a parcel from their son in November 1966," says Nina. "They found in it a cotton kerchief with pattern, an Australian map and some accessories for shaving. According to the list there were also other things, but they have never seen them since the package was partly stolen during the regular Custom control. No address of the sender was on the package — probably the authorities have torn it off."