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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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Joe Cudars

Meet Joe Cudars from Latvia and see his tablespoon.


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Alexandra Gilbert

Meet Alexandra Gilbert from the Ukraine and see the postcards she received as a forced labourer in Nazi Germany.


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Peter Gwosdz

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


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Anna Iwanuscha

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


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Johann Kaiser

Meet Hans Kaiser from Tweed Heads and see his mother’s see his miniature cow bells from Austria.


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Karlheinz Otto Karthauser

Meet Karl Karthauser and see the St. Christopher medal that saved his life in 1958.


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John Kena

Meet John Kena and see his tractor driving license from 1941 when Estonia was Soviet-occupied.


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Stella Lakomy

Meet Stella Lakomy and see her rug with the Polish WW1 war hero.


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Alina Paczynski

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