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
Meet Anna Fox and see the hat she wore on her honeymoon en route to Australia in 1967. Continue reading
Meet Beryl Fletcher and see her 1956 Xmas Day menu from Berkeley migrant hostel in Wollongong. Continue reading
Meet Cecilia Dvikov and see the Slovenian-style wine press her father made when he arrived in Australia.
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Meet Douglas Dunley from Serbia and see his unused return visa from Communist Yugoslavia. Continue reading
Meet Vickie Drosos and see her mother’s Greek recipes. Continue reading
Meet Paul Drexler and see his father’s fob-watch from Slovakia. Continue reading
!["There is a great maritime tradition in my family and I still have one cap. Normally [it] would have the name of the company or ship you were sailing on, but this one doesn’t so I kept it as a keepsake. I travelled the world with my job [and] I feel fortunate because it does give you a special viewpoint."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/photo25-150x150.jpg)
Meet Georges Devriendt and see his Belgian Merchant Navy cap. Continue reading
Meet Ivan Devai and see the sailor bag which carried all his belongings to Australia in 1957.
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Meet Baukje den Exter and see the sewing box her brother gave her from Indonesia.
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Meet Graziella Del Popolo and see her sheet set from Italy. Continue reading
!["When I was working in the machinery factory after the Second World War, I had a Dutch Workers’ Union book. [It] was used to put a stamp in each week when I paid my union fee; it was a record of my contribution. These contributions went towards workers who were ill and unable to work or to create fairer work conditions. I felt it was important to support the union."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/book2-150x150.jpg)
Meet Jan De Kruiff and see his from union book from Holland. Continue reading
Meet Tarsilla Cunial and see her dress design books from Italy. They were brought over for potential work opportunities and gave her the courage to come to Australia. Continue reading
