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who arrived in Australia in 1973
"[This] is made of wood and constructed to replicate Chilean houses of the day. It was a present from a cousin on our departure to Australia."
Olga Sereno

Meet Olga Sereno and see the ornament she brought to Sydney in 1973 of a traditional Chilean house. Continue reading →

"I was trying to bring the dinner set my father gave me but the Polish authority would not let me. They considered it to be a Polish antique and would not allow it out of the country. My sister now has it in her house although I pinched these plates from the set. Every time we have family get-togethers or Christmas, these are on the table."
Anna Grenadier

Meet Anna Grenadier and see the vase and flower her mother gave her before she left Poland in 1973. Continue reading →

"This is hand beaten to show a man on a horse which is a design common to Uruguay. It is beautifully made and I cherish it as a memory of my old country."
Emilia Pastore

Meet Emilia Pastore and see the mate set she brought from Uruguay in 1973.
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"I was 15 there. I'd been in the Navy for three months - we all had to have photographs taken."
Tony Sorge

Meet Tony Sorge and see the marbles his kids played with at Endeavour migrant hostel in Sydney in 1973. Continue reading →

"When I returned to Slovenia, I visited my home town of Jesenice. I saw my first home and all these memories came flooding in. The address plate was about to come off, just hanging there, and so I collected it. It is the identical format to those made under Communist/Socialist Slovenia, with the street name and number in white on a red background."
Stephanie Jakovac

Meet Stephanie Jakovac and see the Communist-style address plate from her first home in Slovenia.
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