Meet Antonio Cunial and see the barber’s tools he brought from Italy in 1948. Continue reading
Meet George Coutsoumbes and see the stitching machine he used in his bootmaking shop in Broken Hill in the 1950s. Continue reading
Meet Concetta Cosentino and see her cup and saucer from Italy.
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Meet Eleonora Conolly and see her mother’s serviette ring from Serbia.
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Meet Gwen Cole and see the children’s book she hid at Fairbridge Farm School in Australia in 1954. Continue reading
Meet Ingrid Cohen and see the English F.A. Cup Final program from 1973.
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!["I was given this photo when I was in Slovenia in 1998 by the little girl at the front! I remember it was summer [when] wheat is ripe and you cut it. All day I bended down [to] make bundles. It was hard work."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/slovenia-150x150.jpg)
Meet Rozalia Cetinich and see the post card of the Castel Bianco.
Meet Maria Cebulski and see the “Welcome to Australia” booklet given to passengers on her migration journey to Australia in 1950.
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Meet Nicholas Burgeia and see his mother’s brass pestle and mortar from Egypt.
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Meet Ferdi Boers and see the clarinet he brought over from Holland.
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Meet Anne Birdsey and hear her play her father’s piano accordion.
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Meet Eufemia Benussi and see the potato masher she brought over from Italy in 1955. Continue reading
Meet Gina Bortolin-Papa and see her woollen healing scarf.
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Meet Amelia Brinkis and see the saucepan made by fellow Latvians at their Displaced Persons’ camp. Continue reading
Meet Henny Bobeldyk and see her grandmother’s stoof from Holland.
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Meet Wilhelm & Hilde Bittkow and see their fridge. It was one of the first items they bought after arriving in Orange in 1953. Continue reading
!["Regular reports would go to Fairbridge in London and the parents. Some of the [comments] were terrible. Fairbridge used to amend them to suit. We know. We have [the] correspondence."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/report-150x150.jpg)
Meet Ian Bayliff and see his Fairbridge Farm School cheque from 1974.
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!["They're for competitions. I know the blue one is supposed to be first [prize]. They had a pony club in Molong so it was a good way of getting out from things you had to do [at Fairbridge Farm]."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ribbons-150x150.jpg)
Meet Jan Barby and see the horse-riding ribbons she won as a child migrant at Fairbridge Farm School, Molong in the 1960s. Continue reading
!["At Fairbridge Farm, the children just had stainless steel plates but staff had china [with] the Fairbridge emblem stamped on them. When the farm closed down in '74, [they] were auctioned."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/plate-150x150.jpg)
Meet Eddie Baker and see his letter from the British Royal family in 1937, accepting he be named after the Duke of Windsor. Continue reading
![Kate: "The apron is white cotton with rows of coloured cross-stich patterns embroidered on it and a broderie Anglaise border. I think my mother [Anna] took it with her when she was deported by the Germans from the Ukraine and sent to work in Austria."](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/babij-apron-150x150.jpg)
Meet Anna Babij and see her embroidered apron from the Ukraine.
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!["The house [at Corbie Hill] didn’t have electricity, a bathroom or hot running water. I used this big pasta saucepan from Italy to boil water to bath the kids. It turned out to be the best thing I could have bought. I lost the handles because I used it so much, so I found some wire and made some handles myself. "](../../../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/saucepan-150x150.jpg)
Meet Domenica Artese and see the pasta saucepan from Italy she used to make bathwater for her kids when they arrived in Australia in 1955. Continue reading
Meet Franca Arena and see her letter from an Australian official in 1959. Franca was asked to give English lessons to Italian passengers on her boat to Australia. Continue reading
Alexander Anagnostou from Kato Tritos, Mytilini, Greece (edit this blurb) Continue reading
Meet Joe Cudars from Latvia and see his tablespoon.
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