Curious kids to walk in migrants footsteps
Bonegilla Migrant Experience
Children will get a taste of the migrant experiences that helped to shape modern Australia when families attend Children’s Day at the Bonegilla Migrant Experience (BME) on April 20.
The activities will include...
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Bonegilla return prompts memories of a triple wedding
Bonegilla Migrant Experience
As a little girl in Czechoslovakia, Helena Peskova imagined what her wedding might be like but not in her wildest dreams could she envisage the reality – as one of three couples saying “I do” on the same date in the...
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Celebration of a shared beginning at Bonegilla
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A Wangaratta couple who only learned they were both child residents of the Bonegilla migrant camp after they were married have returned to the site for the first time since they almost - but not quite - crossed paths...
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Mural captures Bonegilla’s new arrivals
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The journey of migrants arriving by train to their first Australian home at Bonegilla has been captured on a large scale.
Lavington street artist Kade Sarte attended Bonegilla Migrant Camp’s 75th anniversary in...
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Teacher's legacy lives on at Bonegilla
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Their parents were washed on to Australian shores by the tides of war, some had limited English and few knew where their families would end up in the coming weeks or months – but Paul Crowe’s students had the...
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