“When these people, my mother and people like her, came out here it was like leaving a reality; leaving a planet; turning your back. I guess we don’t appreciate it was such a big deal that they may never come back, never see their family again. – John Savić”
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Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
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