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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Joyce Hammond, Walls of Wire, 1990
A social history of the humane internment and POW camps set up during W.W.2 at Tatura, Rushworth, and Murchison in Central Victoria. Tatura camp was one of the largest internment camps in Australia holding approximately 12,000 - 13,000 people of multicultures from almost every country in the world.Hard cover, with Asiatic children from Tatura camp 4 enjoying a picnic at Waranga Basin. Front photo surrounded with a sketch of wire. B\W photos and sketches.Dedication to the memory of the author's husband, Alan Hammond.prisoners of war and internment camps - victoria - history -
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Article - Multi ring Binder, The Arts Behind Barbed Wire - Dunera Internees at Hay Camps NSW 1940 - May 1941
21 type written pages entitited The Arts Behind Barbed Wire: the Dunera Internees at Hay. Tells the story of the Dunera internees who were sent to Hay NSW from England. It covers how the internees made life in Hay bearable by setting up a school, theatre, visual arts, etc. Tells some of the stories of several of the internees during their internment.Black plastic display folder with 21 typewritten pages. On front is a label with name and donor being a school teacher, taped ondunera, dunera internees, hay camp -
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Document, Recollections of Camp 3, Tatura
Written by Gerda Kuebler, telling her recollections of life in Camp 3 Tatura during WW2 as an internee from Palestine and a Templer.3 double sided A4 pages of typed copy, in plastic sleeves. Original also in file.gerda kuebler, camp 3 tatura, palestine internee, templer internee, internment camps ww2 -
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Book, A Secretive Century. Monte Punshon's Australia
Tells the life story of Ethel May Punshon, from Ballarat to St Kilda Victoria, spanning over a century and the crucial historical events she witnessed.Soft cover paperback. Front cover has white writing for title and author. Pink and orange speckled background. Lady in a brown jacket and tie, with cream shirt and holding a double barrel shotgun. Spine is speckled orange with book title in white. Authors name in a white section. Back cover is orange and pink speckled with a white section giving a blurb about the book and author.ethel may punshon, monte, miss montague, mickey and erica morley, camp 3 internment camp -
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Currency - Bank note, 1st March 1941
... , and printed by Riverine grazier at Hay internment camp tatura ...Designed by Dunera internee, Teltscher, and printed by Riverine grazier at Hay internment campFacsmilie. Encapsulated/laminated bank note to the value of six pence, with blue colour design(s) on white background with black printing. Features emblem of kangaroo, emu and merino ram above banner of the words "Camp seven bank". Display in plastic stand frameC41937, Printed on back of bank note "This note is valid only within the boundaries of Camp 7 Internment Camp Hay" "The bank is under no obligation to honour this note if presented by holder outside the Camp".tatura, numismatics, notes -
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Book, Under Suspicion, 2008
Citizenship and Internment in Australia during the WW2. Two copies (C8299)Olive green soft cover book with picture of Masuko Murakami on the cover. Pink and white textunder suspicion, beaumont j, o"brien im, trinca -
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Book, It Wasn't Really Necessary, 2003
Written in memory of the people who suffered everywhere in the world during the Second World War, but especially citizens of the many nations who found themselves, by a quirk of history incarcerated n Australian Prisoner-of-War and internment campsWhite light card cover, with black text. Attached at the back is an Addendum - Index - clear plastic front cover and a black plastic back cover. 609 pages plus addendum.ww2 camps, australian pow camps, australian internment camps -
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Book, Tatura & The Shire of Rodney, 1969
History of Tatura and district from early settlers. Includes Shire of Rodney ecclesiastical, legal, medical, educational, recreational, WW2 POW and Internment CampsWhite green orange cover. Black writing. Sketch of tomatoes and leaves on coverbooks, history, local -
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Magazine cutting, The Magnificent Monte, 1983
There is an article written by Dianne Rayner on the life of Monte PunshonAn article cut from a magazine Prime Time, dated July 1983. The article is about Ethel May PUNSHON, a warden at the internment camps during WW2. Contained in two plastic sleeves.magazine, punshon m, camp 4, ww2 camp 4, ethel may punshon -
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Book, Enemy Aliens, 1005
Tells of the plight of Italian migrants in Australia during WW2. On Jun 10th, 1940 the Australian authorities carried out the bigget round-up of civilians of an Italian descent.Navy blue soft cover with lines of green barb wire and red and white textEnemy Aliens The internment of Italian Migrants in Australia during the second world war.enemy aliens, franklin j, italian migrants, camp 14a (loveday), camp 3, tatura -
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Book, Sing Me That Lovely Song Again, 2006
Helga Griffin, daughter of Austrian engineer father and German mother. Interned aged 6 years and sent to Australia with her parents and young brother. Five years interned in Camp 3 near Rushworth, then released to Melbourne. Helga vividly describes her early childhood in Persia. The mixed emotions of her whole family during the internment experience and postwar, trying to adjust to a new country, new culture, new language. Very evocative memories of wartime dislocation.Blue/green front soft cover, red and white printing, white back cover and spine, black printing.With my very best wishes to the Tatura museum and the sterling work of the volunteers that contribute to its valuable presence. Helga 26.5.06ww2 camp 3, books, autobiography, helga griffin, helga griffin (girschik) -
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Book, Marched In by Lurline and Arthur Knee, 2008
... Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum 49 Hogan Street ...Written as a record of Internee groups and POW's held in Camps 1,2,3,4 and 13 at TaturaContains many extracts of personal accounts from former internees, prisoners of war and their guards.Soft card front cover depicts a War Camp scenemarched in, knee l & a, internment and pow camps, tatura, ww2 -
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Leisure object - Jigsaws in box, 1940's
Used by internee children at Camp 3Wooden box with fern like leaves and stars painted on the sides and top. A burning candle also painted on the top. Contains 4 jigsaws, Karl Wied, Taturawooden jigsaws, g hornung, k wied, internment camp hand crafts, children's jig saws, children's toys, camp 3 children's toys, gisela bissinger, gisela wied -
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Book, Are You Prepared To Do A Dangerous Job, 2010
... internment camps tatura books biography Fawn coloured soft covered ...Donated to Tatura Museum by the authors.Fawn coloured soft covered book written in German with some English quotations.dunera, internment camps, tatura, books, biography -
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Photograph - copy, Wounded Soldier, 1940's
Sculpture made by Pte Bruno Simon V377556, a 30 year old internee who became a member of the CMF Employment Company. After Nazism came to Germany in 1933, Simon studied sculpture in Paris and Florence and then came to Australia. He was a Jewish internee allowed released from camp in 1942 and after a short period picking fruit joined the CMF Employment Co.Copy of a photograph of the head of an Australian soldier mounted on a foam backingphotograph, wounded soldier, bruno simon, sculpture, internment camp sculptors -
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Audio Tapes, Two tapes. Interview with G. Seefeld on his internment in Camp 3
Two tapes. Interview with G. Seefeld on his internment in Camp 3.audio, visual, technology, accessory -
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Video Tape, Ronin Films, Dunera Boys
TV mini series based loosely on the experiences of the Dunera Boys, their shipment to Australia and their life in Hay internment camp.black vhs video tapeThe Dunera Boysthe "dunera boys", mini series, hay internment camps -
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Video Tape, Bert Whitmore, 27 May 1995
Tape of after dinner speaker on the occasion of the Society's visit to Loveday internment camps. Bert Whitmore helped set up the Loveday Camps 9, 10 and 14 and was a staff sergeant during their occupation.TDK D60 audio tapeBert Whitmore's talk to Tatura and District Historical Society at Barmera, South Australia, 27 May 1995bert whitmore, loveday camps 9, 10 and 14 -
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Video Tape
1 hour German internment camps; 1 hours wartime experiences - migrants; half hour on Sir Ronald EastBASF video tape E120 VHS. German internment camps1 hour German internment camps; 1 hours wartime experiences - migrants; half hour on Sir Ronald Eastaudio, sir ronald east, german internment camps, wartime experiences -
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Photo album, POW and Internment Camps
Contact prints taken by L. Knee at Australian War Memorial ArchivesMaroon plastic photo album containing miscellaneous photosPOW and Internment Campsaustralian war memorial archives, internment camps -
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Video Tape, "When Friends Were Enemies", 26 April 1991
Akai E180 video tapeWhen Friends Were Enemies 26 April 1991internment in australia -
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Map - Plaster Cast, Map of Australia, 1940's
Made by POW at Dhurringile Internment CampMap of Australia, plaster cast, bell shaped, in which is a copper penny and a rosella atop Cape York. Dated 1940 words "Tatura Vic" below map of Australia1940 Tatura- Dhurringile intern Campplaster caste, map of australia, layton family, dhurringile camp, tatura, camp, ornament, plaster -
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Sketch - Copy, Barracks at Camp 2
Nicola Cua lived with his Italian parents in London. Interned when Italy came into the war as Germany's ally. Transported on "Dunera" to Australia to Camp 2. Photocopy of a sketch held in British Museum Records of Internment WW2Black and white sketch of four huts in foreground with gum tree centre front of 2nd hut on right side. On extreme right more huts are visible. Black frame - gold stripIndecipherablesketch, pen and ink, camp 2, tatura, ww2 camp 2, illustrations, pen, ink -
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Document, Seefeld Letters & Documents, 1940's
Includes collection of correspondence and files between Garry (Gerhard) Seefeld and the Australian Authorities, regarding the Jewish Refugees, Singapore Group and his family's continued internment in Tatura. Included are secret reports as to why Garry and family continued to be interned after all other family members had been released. All the above information was made available from the National Archives, Canberra and forwarded to Loretta Forsey (daughter of Gerhard Seefeld) by Keith Forsey in 2001. Files date from 25 February, 1942 to 3 December 1942.Blue plastic 3 ringed binderww2 camp 3, documents, letters, reports, seefeld -
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Folio, Loveday & Camp 1 Temperature & Wind records, 1942-45
Records taken and graphed while in internment at Loveday and Tatura. Sketches and story were done in Camp 3, TaturaBlue plastic folder and sleeves containing 10 graphs, and nineteen coloured pen and ink and colour sketches and story of young children in Camp 3ww2 camp 3, loveday, documents, maps -
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Document - Thesis, Thesis 'Some of the Happiest Years of My Life, Oct-12
Thesis 'Some of the Happiest Years of My Life: Child Internment in Australia during the Second World War'. Sub-Thesis for Master of Arts (History) at Australian National University.tatura, child internees, child internment, documents, reports -
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Document, Father Walter Konig
Father Walter Konig's account of internment on board the "Dunera", and life in Internment in Hay Camp, and Camp 2, Tatura.Account written for "20th Century, an Australian Quarterly Review, 1963" -
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Photographs, 2001
Hans - Wolter von Gruenewaldt, German P.O.W (Ex South African - Mining engineer) painted these scenes and figures as murals on the walls of the Camp 13 Recreational hall. After WW2 the hall was purchased by the Murchison R.S.L as its headquarters in 1955. These paintings can now be seen at the David Jones Nursing Home in Murchison.Small photo album, with a collection of painted scenes and figures as murals on the walls of camp 13 Recreational hall. The album also includes photos of visitors to the Internment camps, Japanese Chan, Oki and Takamura families at the Tatura Historical Society, and visitors to the German War Cemetery during 1992/93. -
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Book - Exercise, 1940's
Trigonometry excercise book used by Helmut Ruff at the Internment Camp 3 SchoolSchool exercise book "The Pencraft", Grade 4 with patterned (green on buff) front cover. Back cover has arithmetical tables. Pages lined. White label on front cover with words written in biro : Helmut Ruyff, Trigonometry, Int. Camp 3 SchoolName Grade V1 Subject Handwritten in ink. Stamp "War Prisoners aid, etc.education, trigonometry, book, ruff h, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, books, school -
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Book, Exercise
Used by Helmut Ruff for French Grammar subject/exercies at internment Camp 3 SchoolSchool exercise book "The Oric". Dark blue patterned cover and printing. 3rd to 6th Grade on front cover and white paper label, wording in bird " Helmut Ruff, French Grammar, (3) 1944 Int. Camp 3 School Arithmetical tables on back cover.Helmut Ruff, Grammaire Francaiseeducation, french grammar, ruff h, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, books, school