Flooding of Melbourne retirement village left second world war refugee with PTSD, inquiry hears
by Adeshola Ore from World news | The Guardian on (#6FGG9)
About 70 people were displaced and 47 homes in Maribyrnong inundated last October
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An elderly man left homeless after Melbourne's Maribyrnong flood last year says being displaced sparked memories of fleeing Germany during the second world war and caused him to become a refugee for a second time".
Two residents of Rivervue retirement village, where about 70 people were displaced and 47 homes inundated during last October's floods, appeared before a Victorian parliamentary inquiry investigating the disaster on Thursday.
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