Refugee Dictionary

Behind every asylum request there is a human being, behind every refugee there is a name is a publication explores humanity from refugee perspective.

This publication memory the history of Holocaust during the world war II as well as the Jewish migration who experience it by creating a dictionary regarding the name of Jewish refugees who arrived in Melbourne Australia between 1946 and 1954. 

This dictionary contain 6480 Jewish refugee’s names. All the names has been organise by chronological order base on their date of departure. It covers from 1946 to 1954 12 months in each year. There are 60 names in each month are listed alphabetically by their surname. In that case surname in the front and given name at the back. The advantage of categorize by time is intend to avoid duplicate names as much as possible and keeps the number on each page manageable.