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I can hear the rain heavily pour onto the roof of my straw house. My younger twins, Max & Tom are snoring which is keeping me awake. I am Noleene Gabrielle Howe. I am 12 years of age. I was born on the 17th of September, 2004. Most babies are born in a hospital aren't they? Well, unfortunately I wasn't one of them. I was born at my home. The one I still live in today, my parents built it when they first got married which has been more than 17 years now. I'm glad dad fixed the hole in the roof today. If he didn't, I would be dripping wet! My brothers were playing with a golf ball they found in a puddle of muddy water on the side of a road in an tiny ally. They were throwing it two each other when Tom threw it to hard, and put a hole right above the room were we sleep. I wish I could share rooms with my older sister, Sarah. She gets a room all  to herself. It is a rule in our house, once you reach the age of 15 you get the choice of sharing a room with only one sibling or you can have a room all to yourself! Sarah just turned 17 when she turned 15 she decided to have her own room. If you decide you want your own room, you still have to wait a while because dad has to build it. I still have to wait another 3 years until I can have my own room! Sometimes, Sarah & I have sleepovers my dad doesn't know about. Once dad falls asleep which is normally around 9:30, I quickly sneak into Sarah's room. I don't always enjoy sleeping in my room. It is quite big but, I share it with the twins Tom & Max who are 7 years old, Jess the youngest daughter who is 8 years & dad.

Today is the day. It is finally here! Today the family & I are moving to Australia! I have been counting down the days; Well, one part of me has, the other of me doesn't want to take another step. We are leaving because of War. I don't blame dad, we should move because we don't want another family member dead. Mum died weeks after having Max & Tom so, they don't really remember her. She had a horrible flu, we didn't have the money to buy medication for her. Her last days were horrible; We must leave early before War begins. Our country have already been warned by the Chinese. We have thousands of hidden land mines underground which have already killed so many innocent people. Jess's BEST friend in the world is Jamie. Jess & Jamie have been friends for 7 years now. Jamie must travel to Australia & live with us for the rest of her life. Jamie & her parents go on a long walk every morning. But one morning, Jamie's parents left her, in a horrible way. Her parents were both blown up at the same time, same area & right in front of Jamie by a land mine, 3 days ago. It was pouring with loud heavy rain like normal, Jamie knocked on our door 6:00am in the morning. I answered the door. Jamie was standing there, wet, cold & covered in big tears. She had dragged her parents all the way here. She told us the story. So, we told her she shall now live with us.

We are now boarding the tiny dingy my papa built before I was born & before my parents were married. It is the family emergency boat. Unfortunately, he only built it for only 2 people. There is 6 people traveling from Vietnam to Australia. We are going firstly to Philippines, Indonesia, Broome & finally Sydney! Dad said it may take us more than 6 months to arrive in Sydney. This is going to be a long trip......

It has been 2 really long months. The food that was meant to last 4 months; lasted us 4 days. Dad & Sarah have caught the flu. "There goes our two grown ups!" I think to myself. So far, so good, there has been no rain! We have got at lest other 4 months.....

We have arrived at Indonesia! It is a little bit different to home but, I still quite like it! Dad & Sarah have got rid of their flu. We are going to stay in a motel called Shinika for 2 nights. We also need to buy some more food. We only have a little bit so, we need to spend it very wisely. I hope they sell some really good coconuts!

We have set sail again. I already miss the motel, It was extraordinary! The beds were like clouds! The rooms were warm & Dad gave a huge, special treat. He ordered us room service! The food wasn't as good a I thought it was going to be though. The food made me have a dream, the dream was about mum; she was doing something; I can't see what though. I hope I not going to be one of those children that you read about when, the leave their birth country, as they try to start their new life, dreams from the past haught them. Now, we are on our way to Broome! Dad said when we arrive, we need to buy a passport. I don't know what a passport is but, I am going to find out! I only have 5 more months in this boat then, I can start my new life!

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I can hear the rain heavily pour onto the roof of my straw house. My younger twins, Max & Tom are snoring which is keeping me awake. I am Noleene Gabrielle Howe. I am 12 years of age. I was born on the 17th of September, 2004. Most babies are born in a hospital aren't they? Well, unfortunately I wasn't one of them. I was born at my home. The one I still live in today, my parents built it when they first got married which has been more than 17 years now. I'm glad dad fixed the hole in the roof today. If he didn't, I would be dripping wet! My brothers were playing with a golf ball they found in a puddle of muddy water on the side of a road in an tiny ally. They were throwing it two each other when Tom threw it to hard, and put a hole right above the room were we sleep. I wish I could share rooms with my older sister, Sarah. She gets a room all  to herself. It is a rule in our house, once you reach the age of 15 you get the choice of sharing a room with only one sibling or you can have a room all to yourself! Sarah just turned 17 when she turned 15 she decided to have her own room. If you decide you want your own room, you still have to wait a while because dad has to build it. I still have to wait another 3 years until I can have my own room! Sometimes, Sarah & I have sleepovers my dad doesn't know about. Once dad falls asleep which is normally around 9:30, I quickly sneak into Sarah's room. I don't always enjoy sleeping in my room. It is quite big but, I share it with the twins Tom & Max who are 7 years old, Jess the youngest daughter who is 8 years & dad.

Today is the day. It is finally here! Today the family & I are moving to Australia! I have been counting down the days; Well, one part of me has, the other of me doesn't want to take another step. We are leaving because of War. I don't blame dad, we should move because we don't want another family member dead. Mum died weeks after having Max & Tom so, they don't really remember her. She had a horrible flu, we didn't have the money to buy medication for her. Her last days were horrible; We must leave early before War begins. Our country have already been warned by the Chinese. We have thousands of hidden land mines underground which have already killed so many innocent people. Jess's BEST friend in the world is Jamie. Jess & Jamie have been friends for 7 years now. Jamie must travel to Australia & live with us for the rest of her life. Jamie & her parents go on a long walk every morning. But one morning, Jamie's parents left her, in a horrible way. Her parents were both blown up at the same time, same area & right in front of Jamie by a land mine, 3 days ago. It was pouring with loud heavy rain like normal, Jamie knocked on our door 6:00am in the morning. I answered the door. Jamie was standing there, wet, cold & covered in big tears. She had dragged her parents all the way here. She told us the story. So, we told her she shall now live with us.

We are now boarding the tiny dingy my papa built before I was born & before my parents were married. It is the family emergency boat. Unfortunately, he only built it for only 2 people. There is 6 people traveling from Vietnam to Australia. We are going firstly to Philippines, Indonesia, Broome & finally Sydney! Dad said it may take us more than 6 months to arrive in Sydney. This is going to be a long trip......

It has been 2 really long months. The food that was meant to last 4 months; lasted us 4 days. Dad & Sarah have caught the flu. "There goes our two grown ups!" I think to myself. So far, so good, there has been no rain! We have got at lest other 4 months.....

We have arrived at Indonesia! It is a little bit different to home but, I still quite like it! Dad & Sarah have got rid of their flu. We are going to stay in a motel called Shinika for 2 nights. We also need to buy some more food. We only have a little bit so, we need to spend it very wisely. I hope they sell some really good coconuts!

We have set sail again. I already miss the motel, It was extraordinary! The beds were like clouds! The rooms were warm & Dad gave a huge, special treat. He ordered us room service! The food wasn't

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Hi my name is Annie and I am 13 years old. I was born in Berlin Germany at the start of the war. My mum died soon after I was born, and I am sad and scared because my mum got killed by a Nazi solider. I live with my dad my two sisters and my brother, I am the middle child. It is world war 2 we are moving just in case we get hunted. We are being hunted because the Nazi soldiers don't want the Jews to live in Germany. We are moving to Paris so we don't get killed. On the way there we were scared because we might be shot by the Nazi soldiers.

We saw a train it was a cargo train. Then we noticed a carriage door was open so we ran to the door and jumped in the carriage. The Nazi soldiers were shooting at the train and then they killed the driver. The dead driver fell onto the control panel and stopped the train. The Nazi didn’t know that we got on the train so we hid in the big crates of TNT. My younger sister was distracted and didn’t hear we plan to hide in the big TNT crates. I knew that the Nazi’s would not blow up the TNT! They grabbed her. We had to be quiet otherwise they would get us to. Inside our carriage hiding in the crates if TNT was a homeless man. He knew how to drive the trains. When we could not hear the Nazi’s he crept to the front of the train and got us moving again on our way to Paris. On the way there we noticed our dad was sick then he showed us that he got shot in the shoulder he was slowly dying. As soon as we got to Paris we quickly ran to the hospital to help our dad but during surgery dad died from blood loss. so now Annie has decided too keep the family on track and to stay safe, alive and healthy.

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hi my name is Annie and I am 13 years old. I was born in Berlin Germany at the start of the war. my mum died soon after I was born, and I am sad and scared because my mum got killed by a nazi solider. I live with my dad my two sisters and my brother, I am the middle child. it is world war 2 we are moving just in case we get hunted. we are being hunted because the nazi soliders don't want the Jews to live in Germany. we are moving to paris so we don't get killed. on the way there we were scared because we might be shot down by the nazi soliders

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Hi, my name is Jake I’m 19 years old and I was born on Christmas 1998, I’m live in the back of an old van in a car yard where my brother works. I’ve also got a ungear sister who’s four and a older brother who is 20 years old.  We don’t have enough money to get a house sow we told the owner of the caryard, and he said it would be alright. My Mum and Dad died when I was four, now I remember them in our hearts. We live in north Korea in Wonsan. Our older brother is telling us to move to Afghanistan because since our Mum and Dad died we have had filling of moving to a different place so we don’t loss more of our family.

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안녕하세요 my name is James Higgins i was born on the 23/10/1999 in North Korea my parent died by Gov soldiers for yelling at them. I have a brother, Jake who is 20 and a sister Courtney who is 15 they are the only family i have left that i know of, well i don't think i have any other family my dad use to be working for the government as  secret messengers we got payed a lot until he got fired because they found some one else who is better than him. So that is when they got angry and started to yell at the soldiers, well i wouldn't blame them we couldn't afford anything only a little bit of food so now we have to steal food. So now we have decided to leave. 'lets go now' i say 'okay 3,2,1 RUN' whispers Jake. we are running to the boat docs and we wait until a boat comes and is going to a different country we don't know about any other countries but we hope that it is better than here. 'Oh no here comes the soldiers' 'quickly dive into the water' yells Jake. We dive and they saw us to so they are shooting at the water Jake is swimming away, Courtney isn't moving 'THEY SHOT HER'. I climb up the pole of the docs and punch one soldier in the face and kick the other one in the leg and punch him to than i grab their guns and hijack a boat from the docs and go searching for Jake

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I'm playing in a meadow, running among the red and pink flowers, a laughing girl is playing with me, her long brown hair flowing in the wind. my older sister, Nikki. We run to a nearby tree and begin the climb. As soon as I reach the top, a bomb blasts, falling from the sky.

With a jolt I wake up looking around. The meadow wasn't real. The bomb was.
I jump up, and begin turning towards my father, Sven, and my mother Raina. I see their silhouettes huddled together, and two more, smaller silhouettes. My younger sister, Thalia, and my cat Frankie. I hear quiet sobbing coming from Maria, and small shushing noises coming from who I guess is mother. Just as she used to comfort me during storms, she comforts Maria during air raids.
I peak outside the only window, and look through its dirt-encrusted glass.
The house that used to stand opposite our apartment, is now rubble.
My face arranges itself into a frown. The person who used to live inside that house, was my old nannie, Mrs Walker. I bow my head in a silent tribute for the old lady that had looked after me as a child. I look at mother, and walk towards her, settling in a big group hug.
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I open my sleep-encrusted eyes, and look around. Mother and Father have both woken up. Their faces are grim, and I watch as father puts his arms around mother.

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My name is John and I was born in on 5/7/1940. and I am 14 years of age.

Let me tell you some thing about my family I have one younger brother and his name is Charlie and he is 6 years old, one younger sister and her name is Jasmine and she is 12 years of age and one older and brother his name is David he is 22 he moved to Australia when he was 20. My Mum’s name is Rachel and she is 48 years of age she has no job and she stays at home. She works hard at home she cleans the house and makes food for my family. My Dad on the other hand has a job at the local super market he is the manager of the store. My Dads name is Sean he is 50 years of age.

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This is not your ordinary dairy of moving houses.....
Hello my name
Annie Marie i was born on the 3rd of September 2000 i was born in a country called Hungary let me just tell that hungry is a terrible place so that is why my family is exited to move by the why my mum died from a land mine but we are not sure if she is dead we just herd that she died from our locals and my dad went missing so i have to keep 4, 6 and 7 year old kids it is so hard PLEASE HELP ME. I wish that my dad did not go missing so he could control them with me. Trust me readers my brothers and sisters are so crazy it is like i just want to loose them and then i would have them of my shoulders. The goverment said that me and my half family were not allowed to flee. Here in hungray the goverment and people are so rude because me and my half family have to live on the streets and there are lots of mean people. I stole from the bank to get money and no one realized. I am so sad that i have to steal on my own like there is rich people here they come to see the goverment and that is not fair ta all i wish that i was rich to and one thing they have these things called phones they look so cool i can afored to bye one and did i mention that i have to look after 4 6 and 7 years old PLEASE HELP ME.☹
sometimes i just by my self on the side of the rode with my dairy and cry wishing that i could find my mum and dad i cant go to sleep at night because i miss my family so so much i hope that i can find them one day but it most likely that my mum is dead i am crying right now i miss them everyday I MEAN I MISS MY MUM AND DAD BUT IF I LOOSE THESE ANNOYING BROTHERS AND SISTERS I WOULD BE SO SO HAPPY BUT SOMETIMES I WOULD MISS THEM and sorry evryone i will not be able to write in hear anymore because everyone has to leave evreything behind and i i gave up this dairy so yeah bye evrything i do hope i fin this dairy again

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This was a Hard year for my family. Hi my name is Shanae and this is my life story. I was born on the April the 1st 2001, and I was not born in good circumstances. I live in Afghanistan, it's the last place anyone wants to be.

My Family is so helpful when I'm scared. Who I'm still living with is, Chloe my younger sister, my mother and father. I had a older brother but he died shortly after i was born, by stepping on a landmine and BOOM, he was blown up.

My mother has been doing secret teach for almost two years, to me, Chloe and other kids in the street.

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A young girl's journey:
So...yeah hey readers who are reading this right now😉😉. Your about to read one of the stories from the 'refuges' of their home country. Enjoy😇😇! My name is Emily I was born on 25th December 1940 i was 4 years old. I used to live in my home Germany it was fun over there, but I never knew my family was in danger from war that's coming this way. I live in a family of 5 Mum, Dad, Maria, Me and Ethan, we were a happy family. But sadly my older sister already left  from us and now living in America💔☹. But back to our story😉😉, Why were we planning to flee in the first place? Well it's because of the war that's going on in our home, it started on the 28th April 1945

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My name is Logan and I was born in the Canadian Hospital that is called Toronto General Hospital. I was born on the 31/7/2001 in Canada (Toronto). I am the 2nd oldest in a family of 4. My oldest sibling is a boy that is 19 years old.
I have a sister and her name is Julia, an my dad's name is Carter. My little sister named Sarah is so cheeky, she would wake up in the morning at about 4:30 and would scream so loud and wake up everyone else.
My mum is a waitress at Cambridge restaurant and takes 82km flight but she only sometimes goes to work because she is the owner of the Cambridge Restaurant. The Cambridge Restaurant is one of the best Restaurants in Canada. My mum and my dad almost died from a group of Americans that tried to invade Canada.

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I wake up knowing I that everything I have ever had is gone. Hello my name is Alyssa I'm only 8 and everything I ever had is gone.  I  have an older brother his name is Henry Jorge Dixon he hates me calling him just Henry he says that I need more respect for him. He never used to be like this ever since he saved me from that tank he has been like this. Your probable shocked when I say he saved me from a tank. I know i'm shocked too one thing is that I don't think that any 8 year old should ever experienced being saved from a tank another thing is that my 12 year old brother saved me!!! I'm braver and stronger then him but according to him his arm was sore when we were doing an arm wrestle. Enough about him I was born in Hungary 8 years before the invasion of Hungary it's going to be my birthday tomorrow on the 2nd of June 1945. But it won't be like it was before I moved because it would be safer and totally different i'm still learning how to sing happy birthday in English it's hard i'm surprised it's called a song it's terrible here in Australia back in Hungary the song are much better.

I am now living in a big white mansion with my aunty and my brother since both my parents died saving me from a tank too!!! I know whats up with me and nearly getting killed by a tank and a family member trying to save me. My Mum died from being shot and my Dad was taking away from trying to stop a tank and then murdered lucky me!!! I mean couldn't it have been my brother who is dead 'ha! ha!" i'm kidding hopefully my brother doesn't read this. OK enough chit chat know I will tell you how I came to Australia.

See it's a long story it all started a year ago. Since my parents are dead me and my brother had no money so we had to steal some bread and water (some times) don't tell the cops!!! So it was hard to live then all because of the invasion of Hungary three cheers for the invasion of Hungary hip hip hooray hip hip hooray hip hip hooray hay I learnt a bit of the happy birthday song yey!. Any way back to the story so we had no parents and no money so it was hard to live. So me and my brother decided to move to Australia to live with our aunt Laura she is a model in Australia she left nine years before we left.

My parents knew this guy called Paul he owns a boat shop. He was very kind to every one and then I realized that he could be able to help us. I tolled my brother my idea and then we went to find Paul  8 hours later). We eventually find him he is at the edge of the lake but we don't know why. We tell him about how we have no money and that we need his help. He then said to us that he was going to Australia and that he needed help getting there so then we got on the boat and rowed away to Australia. It was a life changing decision witch we had to make in a comply of seconds because we heard men with guns but we had to or we would die of hunger or a tank one of the two. About  an hour after we left Paul mentioned that he didn't have enough food for all of us so he said that he won't eat any of the food and that he would teach Henry how to steer a boat. It was sad knowing that Paul would die so we could get to Australia. Soon after that he died a tear runs down my cheek he was an amazing guy its sad that he died so young. We eventually got to Australia we still have some money. We called a taxi and tolled him to drop us of at aunt Laura's place luckily he knew who she was. We knocked on the door with sweaty hands and she welcomed us into her home and we asked if we could live with her and tolled her about mum and dad and about the invasion of Hungary. For the rest of me and my brothers life we would be scared of the memory of what happened back in Hungary. Till this day even tho we live in a happy place now I am still sad and angry.

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안녕하세요 my name is James Higgins i was born on the 23/10/1999 in North Korea my parent died by Gov soldiers for yelling at them. I have a brother, Jake who is 20 and a sister Courtney who is 15 they are the only family i have left that i know of, well i don't think i have any other family my dad use to be working for the government as  secret messengers we got payed a lot until he got fired because they found some one else who is better than him so that is when they got angry and started to yell at them, well i wouldn't blame them we couldn't afford anything only a little bit of food

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hello my name is Stewart and i was born in Germany 5 of April 1921.
my mum died and so did my dad because of a bomb that was dropped so i am trying to flee Germany because of toxic gas and because  of what happen to my parents could happen to me.
my journey to Australia was hard because of the war ships submarines air craft and waves that rock our boat.
i struggle to  get a good house because i am  very poor and is hard to get decent food and to get water.
i am starting to like my new home country because i am making friends and they are lending me money to get a new home and nice

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Greetings my friend, I am Savannah Byles I am 10 years old and I have a younger brother named Kade who is 6 years old and loves to play with toy cars. I have a dad who is 32 and is currently very sick and i don't know how long he is going to be alive. I don't usually talk about this but my mum passed away when I was only 3 years old from landmines.I barley got to see or know anything about my mum because i was so young when she passed away. Now that my mum has passed away and my dad is very sick so I am the only one who can get money for this family, Now I work at subway because you get money and you also get to eat so my family gets food as well as money. It's the 2nd of June and i just got to work and there was a little girl who was abot 2 years old and there was no one else there, she was really cute but she started crying and so I picked her up and then she stopped crying. I found in the pram all of her stuff, I was very shocked and upset so I decided to adopt her and call her Alana.. Once I finished work I took Alana home and feed her then we put her to sleep. When i was finished putting Alana to sleep i came out and my dad told us that we had to move to Australia

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This is not your ordinary dairy of moving houses.....
Hello my name
Annie Marie i was born on the 3rd of September 2000 i was born in a country called Hungary

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It’s been a long night, the weather is just getting worse by the minute. Hi my name is Bob Alexander and I’m 11 years old, I'm not sure what the time it is but one thing I do know is that it’s very early in the morning. Another reason why I cannot sleep is because my Dad is snoring very loudly, he had a long day yesterday rounding up sheep for dinner and to sell at the market.

Dear Diary, I have had no sleep what so ever, its hailing hard outside and Dad's snoring, I wish he would stop. Today I want to go and play a game of soccer with my friends, I hope the weather clears up.

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuummmmmmmmmmm, I stop writing, it’s one of the Nazi tanks driving past the light from the tank illuminating the clock, 2:00 am, "why would a tank be driving past at this time in the morning" I thought to myself. Are the Nazis planning something an attack maybe or are they just driving past checking making sure that everybody is in their homes.

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I see the sun start to rise over the horizon, I look at the clock, 6:05, I hop out of bed and go to the kitchen to make breakfast, toast and jam will be a great way to start the day. As I’m eating my breakfast something fury jump on to my lap its Missy my sister Ginny’s cat, she is a soft, silver and white and very friendly.

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Its been a really bad day, Hi my name is Emma Rose Lee. I am 14 years old I'm born on the 3rd of June 2003. I live in Germany, I live with my younger brother Caspar he is only 10 years old. I was born at the end of WW2 and it's so bad everything is so messy they haven't cleaned anything after the war. I'm the oldest sibling, we are a family of two. My mum died from a gunman's who shot her. My dad died from trying to hurt the gunman's to help my mum run away. My little brother Caspar saw all of it he is so terrified for his life, I am so scared to lose Caspar he is the only person I have. Caspar is also scared to lose me he never wants to go somewhere without us he doesn't trust anyone he only trusts me. My mum wanted to be a nurse but she didn't get to because she had died. My parent's had died today and my brother wants to leave this country. Caspar doesn't even trust his own friends he stays away from them and when he sees them he hides because they always see me and they ask if Caspar wants to play or whats wrong with him and I just never reply. We are planning to migrate more like just me I haven't told Caspar yet and I think he wants to. I want to seek refuge because of all the Landmines one of my friends dad died from one. I don't want to stay here because of the war, all the guns, The bad people, the bad country and the bad place. It is not a safe place it sucks here it is so bad you can't trust anyone here set for the people you are really close to or your family. It is such a bad place here we hate it we want to leave

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Bonjour! My name is Jasmine Jolie Beutel and this diary will tell you about what I've been though the last 12 months. I'll start from where I was born, Germany a lovely place where me , Mum, Dad, Emma and Chloe we used to live in a small peaceful village but things changed very quickly! our village was brought down by world war 2 I almost cry thinking about.

I was only 13, Emma was just 9 and Chloe was 8. In the war I was so grateful that Mum and Dad didn't get killed. Every morning I wanted to leave and just stop this war! I sometimes I can't bear it. Evey night every day and everywhere my heart is sad and angry. When one night I heard Dad saying that the me and my sisters can't be safe and that means Dad and Mum don't want us to leave the house.

I  understand  they want us to be safe. I just close my eyes and go to sleep so I don't want to think about. Plus now I know where they moved Chloe, Emma and me into the same room. Chloe and Emma are on the bed and I am on the rusty cold floor. Every night Me and my sisters sit up on the bed by tonight was different Chloe and Emma usually go to sleep but this time they couldn't.

I ask my self why can't they go to sleep? I hop on the bed " Why can't you go to sleep?" I say " tonight can you stay with us in bed" Chloe says sweetly by in a scared way. "OK" I say but I know I need to do this this is for my sisters and I don't want them to be sad or scared. I don't mind them asking if I could sleep with them but they are happy and I want them to be happy.

I told them some stories and sang them songs and they finally went to sleep. When me, Chloe and Emma were awake we found that Mum and Dad were up making breakfast.  When they were about to tell us something then BOOM!!! one of the houses in the villgae was blown up.

Then they were looking for us. We run down to the basement we get the emergency bags.Before we dug a passage that leads out of the village. We go in with lights but we forgot to fill up the hole but the passage then BOOM!! our beautiful house was gone was blown up. Only if I could go back in time.

We reached the end of the passage we dig up we sore our house in flames Chloe falls in Mothers arms crying with pain and anger. " we try to tell you that we are fleeing and now we need to run as fast as we can". Father looks angry and true fully when he said that. We run for the hills we don't stop until dawn we ran 50 kilometers I look back all I see was the distance of the village.

We set up our tent so we god sleep and so we can travel. Morning arrived we stared our journey to a new country the girls keeps on complaining but they stopped then we dived into bushes hiding in fear. We don't move a mussel we don't even turn our heads for one look.

There were three men looking for us then they leave still trying to search for us. once they left they left we move on we don't go north we go west. "Lets keep moving west so they don't find us again." Mum saying in that in a positive way we go west and find.... PARIS everyone looks so happy they are singing and dancing they pull us to start dancing with them.

They must know what we've been throw and as a bonus some are teaching us things like to say hello or bye and even our names!! Then when it was lunch tow men showed us the refugee camp. They gave us a nice healthy and strong meal we all have fished they showed our beds and other things too.

As we unpacked my sisters asked if we could stay here for a wile and if we could go and dace with the people of Paris. Mum and Dad agreed and so did I we danced all day and all night. I woke the next day I saw my dairy.

I've finished writing I saw Mum and Dad smiling and meting new people and there daughters and sons. I got with Emma and Chloe we all knew this is a new life in Paris with new friends and I new welcoming country with lots of friendly people.

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I can hear the rain heavily pour onto the roof of my straw house. My younger twins, Max & Tom are snoring which is keeping me awake. I am Noleene Gabrielle Howe. I am 12 years of age. I was born on the 17th of September, 2004. Most babies are born in a hospital aren't they? Well, unfortunately I wasn't one of them. I was born at my home. The one I still live in today, my parents built it when they first got married which has been more than 17 years now. I'm glad dad fixed the hole in the roof today. If he didn't, I would be dripping wet! My brothers were playing with a golf ball they found in a puddle of muddy water on the side of a road in an tiny ally. They were throwing it two each other when Tom threw it to hard, and put a hole right above the room were we sleep. I wish I could share rooms with my older sister, Sarah. She gets a room all  to herself. It is a rule in our house, once you reach the age of 15 you get the choice of sharing a room with only one sibling or you can have a room all to yourself! Sarah just turned 17 when she turned 15 she decided to have her own room. If you decide you want your own room, you still have to wait a while because dad has to build it. I still have to wait another 3 years until I can have my own room! Sometimes, Sarah & I have sleepovers my dad doesn't know about. Once dad falls asleep which is normally around 9:30, I quickly sneak into Sarah's room. I don't always enjoy sleeping in my room. It is quite big but, I share it with the twins Tom & Max who are 7 years old, Jess the youngest daughter who is 8 years & dad.

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I hear gunfire in the distance flowed by screaming, my name is Osirs and I live in Munic Germany and every day I hope I get out of this battleground. The 5th of February 1930 I opened my eyes for the first time and saw a beautiful world but now it is a living breathing hell but it will be a city in a couple years when the war is over. this was 70 years ago but now ill tell you my story of why I migrated.

Back then I lived with my mum Tyler and my dad Jack my mum was a war medic and my dad was a was a solider in the German army but he was not a Nazi.My family was not poor but not rich so we lived in a house on a hill. We migrated because we were in the middle of world war 2 And Germany was a enemy to the USA and Australia. We decided to migrate to Aus because there was no war in progress  there and I didn't feel ok going there because we where there enemy.

The journey took 3 years and 27 days we got attacked by pirates. Some people died but we survived. We arrived at a refuge camp in Australia its not the best but at least there's no war. my mum now works at a hospital and my dad works at a gas station.

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You will never expect this story.  My name is Tanner Stafford i am 14 years old. I was born in Warsaw  public Hospital Poland. Me and my family live just outside Warsaw in a small town named Otwock. I live with my mum Linda and my sister Brooke. My parents are divorced. Me, my mum and Brooke are traumatised by the Nazi soldiers marching threw our street. My dad was a truck driver and my mum was a jeweller.They were forced to quit their job because my family is Jewish so we don't want to take the risk of being taken to a Germany war prison. We haven't heard from my dad in a long tome so we think he has been put in a war prison. Only yesterday we heard for the first time gunfire and someone being assaulted  by the Nazi SS's. We decided to seek refuge by going to a refugee camp to get as far away from the Germans as possible. Little did we know the Germans are already at the camp tacking all Jewish people to a German war camp so we lucked out. the time in the war camp was very tuff. Once we got out of the camp after World War 2 we made the hard decision to move to  Australia. The journey was a tuff ride over seas by a humungus boat. The trip was very sickning by the seas. There was not much food on the boat let alone good food

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My name is Zoë, I am 16 and I was born on the 10 of September, 1934 in Germany. I was born in WW2 and it has been hard having to deal with the sound of gunshots and walking around knowing that there are land mines in the ground. I have a family of 5, Dad, Me (the eldest child), My brother Joe who is 11 and my little sister Jasmine who is 8. My mum died in 1939 when I was 5.She got shot by a gunman who was fighting for Germany. She also had asthma, and she was having trouble breathing because of the smoke and dust from the bombs. My mum also wanted to be a teacher but we knew if she was going to be a Teacher she was going to die. Our family lives quite far away from the war zone, but there are still some gunman running around, we try and hide from them so something bad won't happen. One day dad planned to take a train to England. So he told us and we stared to pack some stuff up and headed to the train station. I was feeling all of these mixed emotions. At first i was feeling scared because i have never moved to a new country before, i felt happy that i was leaving that smokey noisy place. Nervous for the trip and I didn't know what to expect in England, Unhappy/Angry that there were people invading Germany and that was my home country. We finally arrived in England and the atmosphere is better that Germany

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Hi my name is Sven I am going to tell you unboot myself. Me and my mom and dad are in so much tribal why be cuss the Nazi solder has fund out whee are Jaws. So now whee are on the run for are lives. Now me mom and dad are going to Australia is Vere scary be cuss I have to live my Centre. The Jerne to austral

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This is not a very modern  story. I'm 12 years of age . My name is Tanner and I was born in iraq it is not fun in iraq because of the land mines. It is tragic that my mum died by a land mine. i still have my dad his name is joe he is 53 year old.my  brother  is 21 years old . his name is boby. i have somch fun with my sisters there  names are Elyza taylor  we steel from shop for food.we went on a boat for 3 week to Australia. On the journey we went to the us we snuck in  to Disney land we had so much fun.then we went to a game of soccer.

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It's quite, to quite whats that! I think I just stepped on a landmine I herd a click, well I hope My brothers and sisters know that I love them. I should probably tell you who I am and what I am doing in a place that I'm not suposed to go, so my name is Clark Murray and I'm in the desert and I'm not suposed to be here becuse of Hittler and his army and they have probably put loads of land mines and the tanks would be everywhere, but I haven't seen anything exept dirt there's lots and lots of dirt. I get scared really esaily

I'm the youngest kid out of 5 children. I was born  in Berlin, Germany I live in the middle of world war 2 I have seen things that children should not see actally nobody bshould see dead bodys just lying on the ground. I have  two sisters and two brothers their my two sisters names are Mary and sue and my two  brothers names are John and Andrew we're all very close as we only have each other. Mary and Andrew are like our Mum and Dad because they are the eldest out of all us  and they've looked after us ever since the tradgic death of our mother and father I don't remeber much about them

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Hi, my name is Jake I’m 19 years old and I was born on Christmas 1998, I’m live in the back of an old van in a car yard a caryard yes where my brother works. I’ve also got a ungear sister who’s four   We don’t have enough money to get a house sow we told the owner of the caryard, and he said it would be alright. My Mum and Dad died when I was four, now I remember them in our harts. We live in north Korea in Wonsan. Our older brother is telling us to move to Afghanistan because since our Mum and Dad died we have had  filling of moving to a different place so we don’t loss more of our family.

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This not a happy story it's a sad one. 9 year old Ella was born on 8.8.1930 has a have a good 8 years of her life until World War 2 came to Russia. Now life for Ella is on the Streets not in a 2 story house that I had before War. I was born in a small child hospital with my family.
I have a big family with a big brother, little sister, Mother and Father. They names are Emma
(Sister), Logan (Brother), Mum (Alyssa) and Dad (David). Emma is sick from the bad air and smock. Logan is getting sick as yell. Mum is lucky to be alive because she almost got bombed and shot by Hitlers man. Dad work at a small market to sale food, drinks and sleeping bags to help people to live and gets things for us.
We are fleeing to Australia because all I can see is Hitler's Gun Man and death. What I smell is Smock and Blood. I live in fear and tears. My touch is rocky land, sand and metal.
Are journey to Australia was k

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Howdy my name is Muhammad I am seven years old (born the 8th of may 1998)  and I live in Iraq, Middle East, Asia. Me and my family live in the pour, barren forgotten village of Flintstone. Right now we are in the middle of a unpredictable and dangerous Iraq war.

I have grownup with 4 other brothers and sisters and their names are Shada my oldest sister, (9 years old, born 4th of March 1996), then there is my twin brother Abraham who can sometimes be very annoying, Amira my younger sister who is aged 5, (born 5th of October 2000)she is always is by Mum and Dad's side every were they go and she doesn't to go to school, then there is my youngest brother who is still a toddler (aged 2 born 23rd of July 2002) is called Amil which means hope. We are lucky children because we are the few children that don't have a body part missing from stepping on a  landmine explosion. Dad (Yusuf) is the only one in our family missing a body part from a landmine explosion, he is missing a leg so he walks around with crutches.  He is 46 years old  ( born 31st of July 1959) and like our mum works in our family owned bakery which us children help in before and after school. Our mum (Shana ) is always there to help us and our family owned bakery, she is 45 years old born 1st of April 1960.

We are now being forced to flee our country because of the Iraq war. Our family bakery was bombed and now we don't have any money to live. We are going to use the last of our money to flee this tense, violent, terrorist ridden country. Right now our whole family is waiting for tickets to Australia in a refugee camp that is located in Duhok, Iraq. It is called the Domiz Camp.

We have now been in this refugee camp for 2 months, yesterday we managed to get tickets to Australia .

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My story is different to most people's moving story.Hello name is Blake and we have fled from Iran in my family we have my big Bro Jake is 20 and my little sis Taylor is 13 and my mum and dad nobody knows. And then there's me riat in the mitel  we are going to  Australia.

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"Hello and this is the most terrifying thing that can ever happen to a 11 year old child, and her family. My name is Jasmine Victoria and this is my life. I grew up in a small town called Germany, I am 11 years of age and I am the youngest person in my family. Every day I wish that this would  never of happend, I cry every night hoping that one day all of this would be over.

My mums name is Elizabeth and she is 32 years of age she was born on the 15/5/1982, she is the nicest person in Hungary and every time you are afraid she will give you a hug and the most warmest cuddle in the whole world she makes you smile and makes you giggle. My dad is very serious when it comes to boys or if there is some bad guy on the lose, inside of him he has the most biggest heart that will always keep going and it will never stop beating.

His name is Murray and he is 34 years of age and he was born on the 18/08/1980 and he makes me giggle even when I am sad. My big brother Cory is 18 years old and he is so annoying at times sometimes I feel like hitting him in the face that is how annoying he is to me, and I get all the blame for things but I still love him he was born on the 23/02,1999 and ever since he has never liked it since then.

One morning it was like 3:00 am and there where heaps of people screaming and yelling I ran to wake up mum and dad also my annoying brother we ran out of time to pack for running away My mum got caught by the police and I went back to help her then my dad came after that then my brother. We left our home because of the tanks destroying houses and the shooting, bombing. people were dying and half of the kids died a quarter of the children where in pain or in stress. Kids were running and scared some of the kids were hiding but some of them did not make it. The journey to Australia was very long, it was a 25 hour trip to Australia. first we went on a plane for 22 hours and then a boat for 3 hours the worst trip was probably the boat because some of the people smelt and they were sea sick.  On the boat my brother was so sick and he had a really  big heart attack. At night time my brother is afraid of the dark and he has to have a light but on the plane and on the boat  there were no lights no night lights so my Big brother has to sit next to my mum or my dad. Our new home is very way back to mine because the food is different and the language is very different to ours when we ask for a water bottle we have to point to the thing and try to so water bottle and it takes them like 3 hours to figure out what we are trying to say. We have to live on the streets but at least it is not the sewers they stink. The weird thing is that we can understand them but they can't understand us maybe they don't learn Hungarian language. The thing that I like about Australia is that they different taste and the different type of food I like the bacon and eggs I really like the fatty bacon. We went to explore and we went to one of the gold mines there was like atone of gold there. I love Australia and I hope you do to.