Adam And Arek Romaniuk: A Short Story

There have been thousands of migrant stories over the years, of people who have come to Australia for a new life. This is the story of Adam and Arek Romaniuk, who travelled from Krakow in Poland to Australia in the 1960s.
World War two had raged through Europe in the 1940s, Poland was perhaps more affected than any other country. It was decimated and lost its independence. For 20-year-old Adam, a farmer from Krakow in the south of Poland, it meant witnessing much horror and despair at home and on the streets. Adam and his brother Arek are a team, always together, watching each other's back.
Poland no longer feels like home for us. We have no family here, in fact, our only family we have is our grandparents who live in Melbourne, Australia. Here in Poland, all the buildings are destroyed and many people and animals are now homeless. Our house is almost destroyed there are only a couple rooms left, and our farm is obliterated, crops pulled out, animal blood everywhere. I went to go and gather resources for myself and my brother Arek to feast on. When I was in the city I noticed a billboard, I could barely make out of what it said, but it read ‘come to Australia, where freedom is the first …show more content…
We arrived in Sydney, it was very crowded and saw so many people. we reached the dock and was greeted by police, everyone was screaming due to fear. We were all captured and put on another boat which took us to Melbourne. When we were in Melbourne Arek and I jumped off the boat and swam to the other side of the docks. We ran towards the train station and hopped on a train about to depart for Melbourne, inside there was barley no people so the train took us to Geelong and we were greeted by a relative, our grandparents, they took us in and let us live in her single story old