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Franca Arena AM

Meet Franca Arena and see her letter from an Australian official in 1959. Franca was asked to give English lessons to Italian passengers on her boat to Australia.


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Wilhelm & Hilde Bittkow

Meet Wilhelm & Hilde Bittkow and see their fridge. It was one of the first items they bought after arriving in Orange in 1953.


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Ferdi Boers

Meet Ferdi Boers and see the clarinet he brought over from Holland.


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Amelia Brinkis

Meet Amelia Brinkis and see the saucepan made by fellow Latvians at their Displaced Persons’ camp.


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Eleonora Conolly

Meet Eleonora Conolly and see her mother’s serviette ring from Serbia.


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Jan De Kruiff

Meet Jan De Kruiff and see his from union book from Holland.


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Georges Devriendt

Meet Georges Devriendt and see his Belgian Merchant Navy cap.


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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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Maria Goulding

Meet Maria Goulding and she her Dutch coffee pot.


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Peter Gwosdz

Meet Peter Gwosdz and see the cassette tapes his parents sent from Germany.