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25:03Denis George - Denis, impressed by the Australian soldiers he encountered during WWII came to this country from Greece in 1949, where, despite hardship and government bureaucracy, established the now multi-million dollar pearl export business. Directed by Debra Beattie. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English) G (Rpt...
25:38Nicolas Habib - Born in Egypt to a Greek mother and Lebanese father, Nicolas Habib came to Australia in the early 1950's, where despite his tertiary education and the fact that he spoke five languages, his lack of English meant he was destined for menial work. But he eventually became an ethnic affairs consultant at the F...
25:56Leopoldine Mimovich - Austrian sculptor Leopoldine Mimocich found life in Australia very different when she emigrated in 1949, but after her first job making shirt collars, her talent was recognised and her work now adorns churches and homes across the world. Directed by Veronica Iacono. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, ...
25:55Chris Gatz - He was born in north-west Greece in 1937 and after surviving both the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, he found himself in Hungary as a student of Communism. Chris came to Australia in 1956 and found himself in a country where people were afraid of Communism. Chris began to realise that capitalism was...
25:13Rinaldo Fabbro - During World War II, Rinaldo promised his fellow Italian partisans that if they fought, they would never go hungry again. After the War he studied architecture and realised his only way to success was to go to Australia where he created the facades of two-thirds of Sydney's tall buildings including the Pro...
25:21Victor Vadiveloo - At the age of three, Victor Vadiveloo was taken away from his family in Sri Lanka. At fourteen he was held by the Japanese to work on the infamous Burma railway. From there he was raised and educated by wealthy relatives in Malaysia. In 1948 Victor came to Australia where he faced many racial challenges....
24:59Jutta Malnic - Jutta Malnic was the first female photographer with the Sydney Sun newspaper and now devotes her time to photographing the indigenous people of far north Australia. Born in Berlin to a German father and Australian mother, Jutta was educated as a photojournalist and immigrated to Australia in 1948. Directed ...
25:35Frank Buzolic - Born in Hvar near Dubrovnik in 1930, Frank relied on his wits to stay one step ahead of hunger throughout childhood. At the age of 11, Frank became a black marketeer. His insatiable zest for life took him on the adventure of a lifetime - in order to escape army service and communism after World War II, he a...
25:46Sasha Nekvapil and Frank Prihoda - In 1948, Sasha Nekvapil was skiing with the Czech national team in Switzerland when she decided to escape over the Czech border into Austria with her husband Karel and brother Frank. Moving to Australia in 1950, Sasha worked as a ski instructor at Mt Buller before opening one of the first...
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25:21At the height of the Spanish Civil War and after the disappearance of his father, John Diaz stowed away on a Swedish freighter and came to Australia. (Commissioned by SBSi, in English) (Documentary Series) (Rpt) G
26:18Anne Duffy-Lindsay grew up in a radical IRA family in southern Ireland. Upon arriving in Australia in the early 1950s, she took up the communist cause. (Commissioned by SBS in English) (Documentary Series) (Rpt) G CC WS
27:26Natasha Oulianoff - Born in a gulag off the Russian coast, Natasha Oulianoff was lucky to survive the horrors of the Second World War and escape to the West.
25:55Pat Hesse - Pat Hesse arrived in Australia from Sri Lanka in 1947 at the height of the rule of the White Australia Policy.