"The Second World War started in my country in 1939. It was a time of pain, fear, death and slavery"

"At the same time we were fighting the Axis powers, on our own shores, Aboriginal Australians were subject to some of the worst kinds of discrimination"

"Afghan people have suffered from the war and violence for more than half a century. Generations were born and raised in war"

"My family members don't really talk about this time in their life. I assume it's because they probably experienced racism and really harsh conditions"

"We were still a young nation and there was no shared experience of the trauma of the war"

"If I were born in 1930, I would not have survived the war and the N