MIGRATION · JOURNEY

Brunhilde Srejic from Bathurst to Cowra, 1950

Bathurst Reception CentreCowra Migrant Camp

Brunhilde Srejic recalled moving from Bathurst with about sixty women and children on the Wednesday before Easter 1950. At Cowra her family had a room to themselves in a corrugated-iron hut. She resumed hairdressing while her husband worked in Orange and visited on Friday evenings, and the family later left for a room in Orange.