The oral autobiography of William Komesaroff, transcribed by his son Michael. William was born in Grafskoy, present-dau Ukraine, in 1908, and as a child witnessed the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Civil War. With the help of a brother, Yaakov-Leib, who had emigrated to Australia in 1914, and the Red Cross, the Komesaroff's fled Civil-War Russia in 1921 and settled in Melbourne in 1922. Details his life in Australia and information about the reception he received as an immigrant from the Communist regime and as a Jew.