Teresa Mircovich
Igor and Teresa Mircovich arrived in Australia from a WWII refugee camp. They have lived in their ‘beautiful, clean’ Kelvin Grove home since 1955.
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A Cup of Tea With Igor and Teresa Mircovich
You want to know this? My husband escaped from his hometown, Zara, and he escaped to Italy. After the war, they went into the camp. I met my husband when I was 15. So, we meet each other, and he wants to marry me and things like that, and we get married. We make for the refugee camp, with all the nations together, and they sent us here to Australia because I have a small boy, a small baby. And we ended up in Bonegilla, down in Melbourne, and I end up in Wacol, in a camp up here at Darra—Wacol is near Darra. We stayed there until 1952—we stayed a few months there. But my husband came down to Brisbane and up to Spring Hill, found two houses for rent, and we looked for another three families to live with us—two in each house. We stayed there until 1955. When I came here from Spring Hill, I saw this house was beautiful, clean, was close to school and was close to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, which was then the General Hospital. So I said, this is the house that will do for me. My son went to school—he was about six—and I always said to him, Roger be careful, goes always on your left. Never cross the road. When we arrived here, it was paradise—we were free, we worked, we saved, and we were happy.
