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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NetherlandsLike many new arrivals, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was the Wolswinkels' firs
Sri LankaI am an only child born to a mother who has nine siblings and one live-in cousin and a father wit
United Kingdom(Mitchell Librarian 1993-2001, Associate Director State Records NSW 2001-2008 and Director State
NetherlandsWhen Adriana Zevenbergen first thought of coming to Australia with her husband Cornelis in the ea
GermanyMy Mother and Father decided to come to Australia from Germany.
United StatesHaving left New York six weeks earlier, the Mills family - all eight of them!- finally arrive at
NetherlandsThese photographs show the Hoogenhout family working in their bakery.
HungaryIn exchange for assisted passage to Australia, Laszlo was required to fulfil a two-year work cont
AustraliaIt was not smooth sailing for all migrants that arrived in Australia after WWII.
GermanyI cannot remember arriving at Bonegilla, but I clearly remember waking up in the hospital with da
United KingdomMy uncle, James Hadley with his wife Maisie (nee Lambert) and their two children, Jaimmy and Jenn
ItalyWe arrived at Greta Migrant Camp, approximately 180 kms north of Sydney, in mid December 1955.
PolandI, Marianna Konovalov and my husband Vladimir came to Australia as migrants in 1949.
NetherlandsMy first job was at a car yard cleaning cars and so.
HungaryHungarian Laszlo Makay arrived at Bonegilla in November 1951 after six years in a displaced perso
Czech RepublicThe Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ended a period of democratic reform and led to an
LithuaniaIn the aftermath of World War II, around one million Europeans were displaced from their country
NetherlandsWhile Jan died in December 2010 and Nieske only six months later, their legacy in Tasmania remain
