Meet Yolanda Takacs and see her Hungarian national costume.
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Meet Domenica Scarcella and see her statue of the Madonna, a family heirloom from Italy.
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Meet Teresa Restifa and see the bedcover purchased in the 1940s for her mother’s glory box.
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!["It belonged to my grandmother [and] the shell was always with her. It fascinated me from the minute I could read and was something she let me have, hold and look at. She died when I was 15 [and] it was something I’ve always kept."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/shell-150x150.jpg)
Meet Annie Page and see her grandmother’s shell from Canada. Continue reading
Meet Edda Marcuzzi and see the remaining item from her 24-piece cutlery set.
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I was born in 1935. My mother Caterina and I were originally from Pola in Istria, then in Italian territory. Continue reading
Meet Sophia Kanna and see her family blanket from Iraq. Continue reading
Meet Dagmar Kanck and see the sewing machine she brought with her from Norway to Broken Hill in 1952.
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Meet Hans Kaiser from Tweed Heads and see his mother’s see his miniature cow bells from Austria.
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Meet Ron Joffe and see the cutlery set he was given at his farewell in South Africa.
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Meet George Varughese and see the outfit he wore when he arrived in Australia in 1963.
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Meet Rose Varughese and see the sari she brought with her to Australia in 1969.
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Meet Draga Williams and see the first embroidery sampler she made in 1945 at a Displaced Persons’ camp in Egypt. Continue reading
Meet Diana Zilka and see her grandmother’s vase from Calcutta, India.
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!["We bought this for our one year old child, Barbara, before we left Poland, in readiness for our journey to Australia. She had to wear it on many occasions to keep warm when we lived in sub-standard accommodation [in Sydney]. It reminds me of the good and bad times over many years and how fortunate we are to have survived and live in such a lovely country."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/photo21-150x150.jpg)
Meet Krystyna Cyron and see the coat her daughter wore on the journey to Australia from Poland in 1959. Continue reading
Meet Rosina Benevenuto and see the piano accordion her husband played as a shepherd in Italy.
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Meet Stephanie Jakovac and see the Communist-style address plate from her first home in Slovenia.
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Meet Nan Jacobs and see her wedding china from Scotland. Continue reading
Meet Anna Iwanuscha and see her musical spinning wheel from Yugoslavia. Continue reading
Meet Teresa Iannelli and see her café latte cup from Italy. Continue reading
Meet Arthur Hill and see the spoon he used at Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
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Meet Anne Hawker and see her handwritten school diary from Holland.
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Meet Sargon Hallaby and see his traditional Assyrian quilt from Iraq. Continue reading
Meet Peter Gwosdz and see the cassette tapes his parents sent from Germany.
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!["Joe sat in the hot coals, in the fire, when he was a little baby, in Italy. Because he was saved and didn’t get burnt, we put him in the St Anthony’s clothes - he's the patron saint [for protecting children] - from Italy to Australia. I washed [the suit] before Mass in the boat."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/suit-150x150.jpg)
Meet Caterina Grippo and see the suit her son wore on the ship from Italy.
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Meet Maria Goulding and she her Dutch coffee pot.
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!["This was given to me by my grandfather. He made up a poem - hip hip hooray, today's the day Jacqueline van der Waarden turned 7 years - and you take it to friends and they write a poem in it about you. I have [poems from] girls on the ship and people in the camp."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/poesie-150x150.jpg)
Meet Jacqueline Giuntini and see the Dutch Poesie book given by her grandfather when she was 7 years old. It contains poems from girls she met on the ship to Australia in 1955.
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Meet Alexandra Gilbert from the Ukraine and see the postcards she received as a forced labourer in Nazi Germany. Continue reading
Meet Maria Del Carmen Geroncio and see her First Holy Communion prayer book from Argentina. Continue reading
Meet Constantinos Frangonasopoulos and see the machine he used to make 45,000 bricks for his house in Broken Hill in 1959. Continue reading
