Migration Heritage Centre Left - Van der Waarden family leaving Amsterdam, Holland for Australia on the Fairsea, 20 September 1955. Photograph courtesy of Ms Jacqueline Giuntini and Dutch Immigration Experience project, Dutch Australian Cultural Centre. Right - A young Sonja Spaan with her home-made doll pram, Unanderra Hostel, Wollongong (1957-8). Photograph courtesy of Ms Sonja Agius and Unanderra Hostel Memories

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Pauline Maria Peadon's spiritera/ primus-like burner
Read about Pauline Maria Peadon's migration from Malta to Australia in 1951.
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Benussi family photographs
Read about Domenico & Eufemia Benussi's migration from Italy to Australia in 1955, and the objects they keep to remind them of their experiences.
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