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StoryMeerbach Memories - Cornelia and Antonius
Cornelia Grosveld and Antonius Meerbach married in Roosendaal in the Netherlands just after the outbreak of the...
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StoryThe Hoogenhout family - the right decision
When you’re not sure what to expect when you arrive, 17,000 kilometres is a long way to travel. In 1951 Nieske...
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StoryMigration to Australia
This is writtrn in memory of my father and mother.In the year 1945 we had been through a war and hunger winter and...
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StoryMeerbach Memories – Margaretha
In 1955 at eight years old my parents told me we were going to move to Australia. I was a little worried as not all...
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PhotographPhotograph 8113781
Three boys and three girls won a 17 day educational tour of New Guinea. Here the Melbourne Manager of Qantas Empire...
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StorySibajak - Journey To Australia - Udo Family 1956
I (Frans Alexander Udo) was born on March 29 1950 in Amsterdam Holland. My mother's name is Emma Van der Horst and...
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StoryThe Misses
Migrants who had won beauty pageant titles were the perfect models for promotional photographs taken by the...
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PhotographPhotograph 7529890
Dutch-born beauty Lucia Schaepman and her mother kept a promise made in Holland when the liner JOHANN VAN OLDEN-...
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StoryHenk Wolswinkel's story - journey on the JVO
Henk Wolswinkel, the youngest of 13 Wolswinkel children, boarded the Dutch migrant ship Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (...
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StoryHenk Wolswinkel's Story - magpies singing
Like many new arrivals, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was the Wolswinkels' first home in Australia...