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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T V W Z A Aaron, Moses Altena, Anita van Anagnostou, Alexander Aquino, Marta Arena, Franca Artese, Domenica Ataya, Chafic B Babij, Anna … Continue reading →

weaving frame
Rosina Rombola

Meet Rosina Rombola and see the Italian weaving frame used to make patterns on her home-made nacatoli biscuits and macaroni pasta.
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Matthesius' plumb line
Ronald (Ron) Matthesius

Meet Ron Matthesius and see his 1960s German tiling trowel. Continue reading →

magazine
Gyõrgy (George) Bànsàgi

Meet George Bansagi and see the furniture magazine he used to build items for his first house in Wollongong in the late 1960s. Continue reading →

Sardool Singh
Sardool Singh

Meet Sardool Singh and see the violin given to him by his father. Continue reading →

De Vos family arrives in Sydney, Australia, 23 May 1960 (Marius de Vos is standing, top left)
Marius (Rien) de Vos

Meet Marius de Vos and see the newspaper clipping of his family’s arrival from Holland in 1960. Continue reading →

book
Moses Aaron

Meet Moses Aaron and see his father’s book on Moses. Continue reading →

Joseph Borg with his mortar shell ashtray
Joseph Borg

Meet Joseph Borg and see his Maltese George Cross ashtray made from recycled WW2 mortars. Continue reading →

"[This] is made of wood and constructed to replicate Chilean houses of the day. It was a present from a cousin on our departure to Australia."
Olga Sereno

Meet Olga Sereno and see the ornament she brought to Sydney in 1973 of a traditional Chilean house. Continue reading →

Marta Aquino with her miniature iron
Marta Aquino

Meet Marta Aquino and see the miniature iron she brought from Uruguay in 1974. Continue reading →

Angelita Gomez with her uncle's music book
Angelita Gomez

Meet Angelita Gomez and the music book she brought from Uruguay in 1970 that was considered ‘illegal’. Continue reading →

"We brought many stoppers from Holland with a view of starting our own business selling them. I still have two. They are solid silver and are a memory of our migration and the commencement of our business."
Anita van Altena

Meet Anita van Altena and see the silver cork stopper she brought from Holland in 1964 to start up her own business in Australia. Continue reading →

My results state "superior to very superior reasoning abilities ... professional occupations … could be considered". Virtually all the child migrants would have been in the same category. They IQ tested everybody in England and didn’t want anybody with an IQ under 90. Undeniable basic intelligence, capability and aptitude, yet terrible education results. The board of Fairbridge concluded we were "educationally retarded". We now understand that kids need nurturing and support and individual focus. And none of that existed at Fairbridge.
David Hill

Meet David Hill and see the postcard he sent to his mum in England en route to Australia in 1959. Continue reading →

"I brought a clock at Cooma in the Snowy River back in 1953. The alarm would wake me each morning for work. It is a Cyma clock from Switzerland and I paid £15. It was a lot of money then. It is still working very well."
Domenico Sidonio

Meet Domenico Sidonio and see the clock that woke him up for work in the
Snowy Mountains in 1953.
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"The tablecloth is very special. When Princess Elizabeth of England was getting married in November 1947, the ladies in the [DP] camp decided to make her a present. They, including my mother, embroidered a beautiful little tablecloth. My mother copied that pattern and reproduced [it]."
Helen Simanowsky

Meet Helen Simanowsky and see the blouse her mother made from a scarf given by German soldiers during WW2. Continue reading →

"Using embroidery stitches, I made this nightie in 1961 for my first daughter, Cinzia, when I was in Surry Hills, Sydney."
Silvia Saccaro

Meet Silvia Saccaro and see the nightdress she made for her baby daughter when they first came to Australia in 1961. Continue reading →

"We carried these things with us from Poland: a family prayer book from which the family prayed [and] my first Holy Communion bible."
Zofia Radosz

Meet Zofia Radosz and see the handbag her mother was given en route to Gotha camp in Germany in 1944. Continue reading →

"I have kept the diary since being in Australia. I have written down everything that I could remember; how it happened, where I was, what I was doing and things like that."
Stefania Petryk

Meet Stefania Petryk and see the diary she has kept since coming to Australia in 1950. Continue reading →

"I was trying to bring the dinner set my father gave me but the Polish authority would not let me. They considered it to be a Polish antique and would not allow it out of the country. My sister now has it in her house although I pinched these plates from the set. Every time we have family get-togethers or Christmas, these are on the table."
Anna Grenadier

Meet Anna Grenadier and see the vase and flower her mother gave her before she left Poland in 1973. Continue reading →

"This is the wallet I had with me from the age of 14. I had [it] with me in the Ukraine and all the time I was in France and Germany during the [Second World] war."
John Bojko

Meet John Bojko and see the wallet he carried with him through the Ukraine, Germany and France during WW2. Continue reading →

"My husband was a POW in Stalag 9c camp at Bad Sulza and his card is dated 3 November 1940."
Alina Paczynski

Meet Alina Paczynski and see the communion bread the Red Cross sent to her husband’s POW camp in 1940. Continue reading →

"I brought with me this sugar bag tablecloth I made and embroidered during the war in the 1940s. Sugar in those days came in cotton bags so when one was empty I must have asked for it."
Connie Baker

Meet Connie Baker and see the tablecloth she made from a sugar bag during WW2 in Holland.
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"We are the group of people standing in the bottom right hand corner of the photo."
June Webb

Meet June Webb and see the jewellery box she bought in Port Said en route to Australia in 1960.
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"I arrived in Sydney to a very cold, wintry August. Sydney Harbour was very beautiful and I took photographs of the Harbour Bridge."
Lorna Denham

Meet Lorna Denham and see the programs she sold at London’s Royal Opera House during the 1950s.
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"This violin belonged to Dad [who] was a musician. At home, I used to lie in bed and request songs on the violin and my dad would play them for me. I would love lying in bed and listening."
Lily Scott

Meet Lily Scott and see the violin her father used to play when she was a child in Scotland.
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"This egg boiler belonged to my grandmother Mort. It runs on methylated spirits."
Margaret Mort-Yates

Meet Margaret Mort-Yates and see the beach pebble she brought from England in 1962.
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"This rug means a lot to me because my best friend gave it; she had it for a long time. It was made after World War One - the imagery is about the Polish war hero and soldier, Koscuszko."
Stella Lakomy

Meet Stella Lakomy and see her rug with the Polish WW1 war hero.
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"I saved up and bought the Akkord transistor radio myself. It cost a lot of money. Akkord is the firm who made the first portable radios in Germany."
Trudy Schilling

Meet Trudy Schilling and see the heating element and jug she used to make her own coffee at Bonegilla migrant hostel in 1959. Continue reading →

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Mihai Maghiaru
Mihai Maghiaru

Meet Mihai Maghiaru and see the Communist flag he tore in the late 1940s. Continue reading →

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"There were originally 60 or so German music records I carried over in my briefcase, but now I have only a dozen [and] they’re pretty worn out. They were songs we grew up with, and on hot summer nights in Bonegilla, it was wonderful to listen to our own music. I think it helped us bridge those first few months in Australia to get over our loneliness."
Harry Wolff

Meet Harry Wolff and see the German records he played at Bonegilla migrant camp in 1966.
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