Since World War II, Jews have continued to make a substantial contribution to Australian society, particularly in business, the professions and the arts. Most Jewish immigrants embraced their new life in Australia. This was particularly true for the post-1945 refugee groups, including the survivors of the Holocaust and, later, the Hungarian and Egyptian ‘escapees’. For all these groups, the greatest benefit was to live in a free, democratic society. They no longer feared that someone would knock on the door in the middle of the night with a pair of handcuffs. This sense of security is attested to in numerous contemporary accounts. After the Chip Chase immigrant hostel was opened by the Jewish Welfare Society in 1950, one survivor wrote an article called ‘On Coming Home’: