NSW Migration Heritage Centre: ‘Refugees’


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Leaving Cambodia

Cambodia was devastated by the totalitarian Khmer Rouge Pol Pot regime. For every two people who survived, one person perished.

Now living in Western Sydney, six survivors share their memories with the NSW Migration Heritage Centre in compelling video histories.



Australian Sugar Company Sugar Mill, 1995

1998 Canterbury Greg Ritchie Negative Collection

The Greg Ritchie Negative Collection is a collection of over 3000 negatives featuring buildings and other sites in the City of Canterbury. Between 1990 and 1998 Canterbury City Council staff documented their day-to-day duties through photographs.



The Ultimate Goal

The Ultimate Goal

An inspiring tale of young people from war-torn countries brought together by a passion for football.

A Football United and NSW Migration Heritage Centre exhibition.



Sudanese Stories

Sudanese Stories

Oral histories about the migration journeys and settlement experiences of southern Sudanese refugees now living in Blacktown in Western Sydney.

A Blacktown City Council and NSW Migration Heritage Centre exhibition.



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Gold And Silver

Discover four personal accounts of refugees and migrants from Vietnam who have made new homes and attachments in South-Western Sydney.

A NSW Migration Heritage Centre, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and University of Technology, Sydney exhibition.



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1901 Immigration Restriction Act

This document has historic value because it has direct links with Federation and the drafting of the first Australian Constitution that put in place the law that was the cornerstone of Australia’s ‘White Australia’ policy.



Dunera Boys Hay Internment Camp Collection c.1941

1941 Dunera Boys Hay Internment Camp Collection

Discover the collection of objects from the German and Austrian refugees who transported to Australia on the SS Dunera and were later interred at Hay internment camp during World War Two.



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1980 Vietnamese Model Fishing Boat

Discover the model fishing boat Kie Gang Kg 02979 made by Lai Duc while staying at Pu Lau Bi Dong, an island refugee camp in Malaysia, in the 1980s.



Westbridge Migrant Hostel British Flag c.1960s

1950 – 1960 Westbridge Migrant Hostel British Flag

Discover the British ‘Union Jack’ Flag used at the Westbridge Migrant Hostel, Villawood, New South Wales between 1950 and1960.



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1975 Ed Kuepper’s Valeno Guitar

See the electric guitar used by German born Ed Kuepper, legendary guitarist and song writher for the Saints and Laughing Clowns. The Saints feature on this Saturday’s episode of Classic Australian Albums on SBS television.



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1944 Italian Internment Diaries

Discover the diaries of Federico Bonisoli documenting his internment during World War II. The diaries Include Internment diaries (in Italian dated 1940-1944, letters in English received from his niece Maria Bonisoli and nephew Attilio Bonisoli between 1940-1943, a photograph of Federico Bonisoli, c.1939. and a letter in Italian to Felice Bonisoli from Rev. Professor M.F. Toal, an ex-internee of Loveday Camp dated 13 September 1956.



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1920 Kankles Zither

The zither has historic significance as evidence of post World War 2 refugee migration to Australia and the traumatic experience of dislocation and separation from family.



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1948 Emigration Poster

The poster has historic value as evidence of post World War 2 mass migration and the attempt by the Australian government to build the nation’s population with European migrants.



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1940 Hay POW Camp Coins

The coins have historic value as evidence of the events that surround the internment of POWs in Australia in World War 2 and the experience of the refugees and POWs life at the Hay POW camp.



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1880 – 1930 Redfern Maronite Heritage Centre Collection

The collection has historical significance as evidence of the history of the early Maronite Church and the Maronite community in the migrant histories of NSW.



Tu Do Refugee Boat c.1970s

1975 Tu Do Refugee Boat

Tu Do has historic value as tangible evidence of Vietnamese Refugees in a key phase of Australia’s migration history.




Community Relations Commision Powerhouse Museum