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Bonegilla Migrant Experience to put more than 300,000 migrant identification cards online
Looking at her identification card, Doina Eitler starts talking about the long hair she wore in plaits when she arrived in Australia in 1949 as a 10-year-old.
Key points:
- Bonegilla Migrant Experience receives $800,000 to digitise records
- More than 300,000 identification cards and records will be available online
- Online records will give access to stories for migrant families
“My mother wouldn’t allow me to cut it because she thought I would go astray,” she laughs.
Arriving from Austria, Donia and her family were some of the thousands of migrants who lived at Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre after World War II.
These days the camp, 12 kilometres east of Wodonga in Victoria’s north-east, is the Bonegilla Migrant Experience…
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