The boat: MS Castelbianco, the destination: Canada. One year later my mother-in-law together with her young son tries to join her aunt, alas – Canada has closed its borders to migrants. They turn to Australia instead and arrive in 1954, to start life at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre. Back home in Hamburg they had lost everything, their house destroyed, their belongings decimated by air raids. How much easier the start to their new life would have been, had they been able to join family ...
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