How a fashion label founded by a Holocaust survivor came to help Australian health workers

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Fella Hamilton fled Poland as a child and later started a fashion business with the same name in Australia. It is now making masks and gowns for those on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sharon and David Hamilton do more than run a clothing business together – they are helping to save lives on the healthcare frontline. “During Stage Four restrictions we would have [been forced] to stand down out staff,” said Sharon at their factory in Moorabbin, southeast of Melbourne.

“It was lovely to be going on the trip with other children. It felt like an adventure, as we were all too young to realise the enormity of what was happening.” Fella Hamilton lived in the UK until she migrated to Australia.Fella was just 13 when she arrived in the UK. She was among 10,000 predominantly Jewish children sent there from Germany and elsewhere in Europe. She married Heinz, also a kindertransport survivor, in 1945, and the couple later migrated to Australia.

“In April, during the first lockdown, we suffered a 70 per cent loss to the business and with the constant discussion about low levels of PPE here in Australia we thought ‘why not rev up our whole factory?'" Sharon said. The business collaborated with not-for-profit healthcare service Cabrini Health in Victoria to design isolation gowns with a water-resistant coating that can be washed at high temperatures.

 

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