In 2006, I fled from Iran to Syria. After I arrived, I was interviewed by the UNHCR and by Australian Immigration, and accepted as a genuine refugee, as were others like me, who were from the persecuted Arab Ahwaz minority group. But after they approved us, we heard...
People often ask me where I’m from, but it’s not always easy for me to answer. My great grandfather moved to Fiji from India in the early 1900s to serve as a labourer on the sugar plantations. Fiji at that time was a British colony, so my grandfather had a British...
I’m a holocaust survivor, and I’m extremely lucky to be alive. In 1942, out of a population of 90,000 Jewish people in Slovakia, 60,000 were sent to death camps, over a 6 month period. However, because my father was an advisor on crop improvement, he was provided with...
We had a long and difficult journey to Australia and without you, we would never have felt like Australia was home. Now, we are so happy to have this book with our story in it, for our little son, who was born in Australia. Don’t miss out on your copy of the...
While I was doing my degree in Psychology in Singapore, I fell into depression for a year. It was a pretty tough time. I failed a couple of units and I started thinking, ‘God, my dream is over now.’ I ended up spending a lot of time playing video games – it was my way...
When I left Poland, it was under a communist regime. It was an awful place to be then because of the lack of freedom, and for me, the most important thing is to be free and creative. One day, I went out with a friend and there were these demonstrators protesting...
