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My family left Paris because times were hard we went to live with family in Italy. This was a three bedroom apartment and there were ten people living in it. We were poor but very happy with a large extended family, no way of finding private rentals. even… Updated: 17/11/2014
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The Rebikoff family, comprising my mother, Helen and myself migrated to Australia from Singapore in the early part of 1950 so that I could attend an English speaking school in Perth. Having been born near the end of WW2 in Kuala Pilah in Malaya (now … Updated: 09/05/2015
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Germans invaded Zaporozhye, Ukraine 1942 where mother and father worked on Dneiper Dam. Father Mykola Iszczyszyn, mother Ekaterina Shuvalova (Russian), sister Ludmilla (Lucy), and I Olga (1939) were taken to work in Schweinfurt, Germany for… Updated: 30/06/2009
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Family circumstances
I was born into a middle class landlord family, my father was a public servant and my mother was a housewife. When two years old, my father died and when four years old, my mother died, so I was raised by grandparents. In 1950, I married… Updated: 04/06/2009
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My family come from the small Italian village of Via Guazzi, near Abano Terme. Olga’s husband, Vittorio was captured in WWII in North Africa by the Australians. As a POW he was sent to India, where conditions in the camp were so bad that he wouldn’t… Updated: 04/06/2009
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I arrived from Lisbon in Portugal with my mother, Maria Rosa Gomes Mota as my father Antonio Teixeira Mota had arrived from France 2 years earlier. Times were tough in Portugal due to the dictatorship of Salazar, dad had previously immigrated… Updated: 20/04/2009
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Born in Sri Lanka and after a short stay in UK in the late 1970’s and early 80’s during my father’s PhD studies, my family returned to Sri Lanka. Confronted with the conflicts of a civil war that was escalating in Sri Lanka my parents… Updated: 09/04/2009
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