Share your story, read about other migrants’ memories and explore our photos – to see if you recognise someone you know. Between 1946 and 1999 government photographers snapped 22,000 images of people arriving and living in Australia. You can view them online in the National Archives’ collection.
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Browse videos- Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Cees, Ina and Erwin Huig, Dutch migrants to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Gerard and Marretje van Wezel, Dutch migrants to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Sherry Wright, Dutch migrant to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Petronella Wensing, Dutch migrant to Australia - Series: Dutch Australia Shared Cultural Heritage
Stephanie Brantz, Dutch migrant heritage - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Vera Marek - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Seraphin Nyirenda - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
Maria-Lourdes (Noonee) Doronila - Series: A Ticket to Paradise? Exhibition
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Personal stories
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United Kingdom(Mitchell Librarian 1993-2001, Associate Director State Records NSW 2001-2008 and Director State
NetherlandsIn 1960 Cornelis and Adriana Zevenbergen with their sons Kees and Addo moved into their own three
ItalyWe arrived at Greta Migrant Camp, approximately 180 kms north of Sydney, in mid December 1955.
United KingdomI was 12 years old and was ordered by the High Court in London to leave to join my father Frank a
United KingdomI arrived at the hostel late afternoon it was getting cooler and after London it was as different
United KingdomHi I am but a mere Scot but the real story relates to my two uncles by the names of Magnus and Be
GermanyThey sailed on 9.12.54 on the SS Skaubryn and Christmas was celebrated on the Red Sea.
LithuaniaOn 28 November 1947, 843 displaced persons from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia arrived in Fremantl
United Kingdom(Mitchell Librarian 1993-2001, Associate Director State Records NSW 2001-2008 and Director State
NetherlandsLike many new arrivals, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was the Wolswinkels' firs
GermanyMy Mother and Father decided to come to Australia from Germany.
GermanyIt was five years after the worst global conflict ever had come to its end, when Father had manag
ItalyThe Bellomarinos were considered a ‘very good family group’ by their interviewing immigration off
AustraliaThe first entry into mainland Australia by Torres Strait Islanders from the Torres Strait began i
AustraliaThe following day I was given a very lengthy series of tests in maths, English, solving problems,- United KingdomI picked 1970 as this when I was just 15 and left Aus reluctantly but keen to see me mum brothers
GermanyMy parents, Johannes (John) and Elisabeth (Lisa) had applied to emigrate to Venezuela and to Aust
NetherlandsFifty years after their arrival, the Wolwinkels held a family reunion in Gumbuya Park, Victoria,
ItalyIn July, 1977, Mum's family came to pick us up and take us to Tullamarine Airport as we were on o
GermanyOn our arrival in Australia, my mother Lisa's only language was German.
