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Domenica Artese

Meet Domenica Artese and see the pasta saucepan from Italy she used to make bathwater for her kids when they arrived in Australia in 1955.


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Ian ‘Smiley’ Bayliff

Meet Ian Bayliff and see his Fairbridge Farm School cheque from 1974.


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Domenico & Eufemia Benussi

Meet Eufemia Benussi and see the potato masher she brought over from Italy in 1955.


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Constantinos Frangonasopoulos

Meet Constantinos Frangonasopoulos and see the machine he used to make 45,000 bricks for his house in Broken Hill in 1959.


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Jacqueline Giuntini

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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Anna Iwanuscha

Meet Anna Iwanuscha and see her musical spinning wheel from Yugoslavia.


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George Kotsiros

Meet George Kotsiros and see his Greek-English dictionary.


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Stewart Lee

Meet Stewart Lee and see the postcard of the ship he came to Australia on in 1955.


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Edda Marcuzzi

Meet Edda Marcuzzi and see the remaining item from her 24-piece cutlery set.