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"This set square from Hungary is a reminder of my education, but also of the education I was unable to attain [during the Communist era], although I had the ability."
Imre Molnar

Meet Imre Molnar and see his school book from Communist Hungary.
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"The headset signified an achievement in my professional life as I had completed my commercial licence. I was now a pilot and thought, I'm a professional and am going to buy a really good headset."
Sussan Ley

Meet Sussan Ley and see her pilot’s headset. Continue reading →

"When I was ten, I received a thimble from my godmother Dora. My mother used to make me embroider doilies for my godmother, aunts and grandmother every year. They must have been so sick of doilies!"
Inga Krain

Meet Inga Krain and see her sugar cube holder from Germany. Continue reading →

"I carried that suitcase everywhere, bringing the light green, metal case with me across from Greece. The suitcase was small - about 50 centimetres wide and 30 centimetres in height - but it was all I needed and I carved my name into the metal."
George Kotsiros

Meet George Kotsiros and see his Greek-English dictionary. Continue reading →

"This is the last remaining piece of my cutlery set which I received as a wedding gift before we left Italy. After Bonegilla I only have one knife left now – you see, I lent them out to other people at Bonegilla and they did not come back. It was a 24 piece set: six knives, spoons, forks and teaspoons. Sometimes I wonder where all those cutlery pieces ended up!"
Edda Marcuzzi

Meet Edda Marcuzzi and see the remaining item from her 24-piece cutlery set.
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"My father made a spindle for me from the bamboo posts in our desert tent at the Displaced Persons' camp in El Shatt, Egypt. I used the spindle to make knitting twine out of wool."
Dragoslava Williams

Meet Draga Williams and see the first embroidery sampler she made in 1945 at a Displaced Persons’ camp in Egypt. 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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Nan Jacobs
Nan Jacobs

Meet Nan Jacobs and see her wedding china from Scotland. Continue reading →

"I loved going to high school in Holland. We had homework every day so the school gave a diary. It lists all the languages I learned which would later help me find work in Australia."
Anne Hawker

Meet Anne Hawker and see her handwritten school diary from Holland.
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"I often received cassette tapes from my parents in Germany, sometimes my brother and sister would talk too. The tapes contained words and music. It was wonderful hearing their voices, you felt closer somehow."
Peter Gwosdz

Meet Peter Gwosdz and see the cassette tapes his parents sent from Germany.
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"This visa slip is from Communist Yugoslavia, now Serbia. When I left Serbia and decided not to return I did not receive the return stamp on this visa slip – it is still blank to this day. Instead I decided to migrate to Australia and make a new life."
Douglas Dunley

Meet Douglas Dunley from Serbia and see his unused return visa from Communist Yugoslavia. Continue reading →

"There is a great maritime tradition in my family and I still have one cap. Normally [it] would have the name of the company or ship you were sailing on, but this one doesn’t so I kept it as a keepsake. I travelled the world with my job [and] I feel fortunate because it does give you a special viewpoint."
Georges Devriendt

Meet Georges Devriendt and see his Belgian Merchant Navy cap. Continue reading →

"When I was working in the machinery factory after the Second World War, I had a Dutch Workers’ Union book. [It] was used to put a stamp in each week when I paid my union fee; it was a record of my contribution. These contributions went towards workers who were ill and unable to work or to create fairer work conditions. I felt it was important to support the union."
Jan De Kruiff

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

"One of the benefits of working at Bonegilla was that the staff had their own room. It was my own room, my own little kingdom. We also had our own dining hall with tablecloths and napkins - what a luxury!"
Eleonora Conolly

Meet Eleonora Conolly and see her mother’s serviette ring from Serbia.
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"At the Displaced Persons' camp in Germany, I was involved in a theatre group with other Latvians. I was always singing, I loved to sing. Even when I was crying I was singing! I'm standing on the far right behind my son."
Amelia Brinkis

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



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