Why we chose Australia

Jewish survivors arrived in Australia in two waves at two different locations. The first wave, during the late 1940s and early 1950s established itself mostly in Melbourne and consisted mainly of Polish Jews. The second wave, following the failure of the Hungarian revolution in 1956, concentrated in Sydney and established an important centre of Hungarian Jewish survivors. Should these immigrant Jews be studied as survivors, or as refugees from communism? Through in-depth interviews she reveals the the various layers of this complex identity