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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book - Paperback Book, The Bootmaker of Berlin
Berlin, 2010: A deathbed promise launches Kathy Giuliano on a quest for the truth about her family during World War II. Alone, she travels to Berlin in search of an enigmatic octogenarian who holds the keys to the past. The only clues to his identity and whereabouts and are a black-and-white photograph and an outdated address in Reinickendorf. England, 1938: After fleeing Nazi Germany for the safety of England, a teenage boy is captured when Churchill gives the order to 'collar the lot'. One of 2,000 prisoners on the hell-ship Dunera, he is sent to Australia. At the 'family camp', he makes footwear and forms life-long friendships. Eight years later, what does he find when he returns to Berlin? Victoria, 1943: With the Japanese at Australia's doorstep, a mother and daughter are arrested at their cane farm in far north Queensland and sent 'down south'. Their crime? Teaching the Italian language to school-children. The internment camp at Tatura changes everything. The secrets they share must be kept for the rest of their lives.Mauve and Pink cover with a painting of a large brown lace up boot. The book title is depicted on a wrought iron sign. non-fictionBerlin, 2010: A deathbed promise launches Kathy Giuliano on a quest for the truth about her family during World War II. Alone, she travels to Berlin in search of an enigmatic octogenarian who holds the keys to the past. The only clues to his identity and whereabouts and are a black-and-white photograph and an outdated address in Reinickendorf. England, 1938: After fleeing Nazi Germany for the safety of England, a teenage boy is captured when Churchill gives the order to 'collar the lot'. One of 2,000 prisoners on the hell-ship Dunera, he is sent to Australia. At the 'family camp', he makes footwear and forms life-long friendships. Eight years later, what does he find when he returns to Berlin? Victoria, 1943: With the Japanese at Australia's doorstep, a mother and daughter are arrested at their cane farm in far north Queensland and sent 'down south'. Their crime? Teaching the Italian language to school-children. The internment camp at Tatura changes everything. The secrets they share must be kept for the rest of their lives.ww2 italians, internment, tatura, queensland, debbie terranova, berlin -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Gedge, G. C, Sunflowers : a story of today, [n.d.] [First publshed 1884. This edition early 1900s?]
Fiction for girls and young women. "A volume which mothers may place in the hands of their daughters to show that worldly marriages, however glittering and grand . . . are not to be purchased at the expense of religious conviction and truth."296 p. : ill. Pale green decorative cover, image of young woman sitting in a field, reading.fictionFiction for girls and young women. "A volume which mothers may place in the hands of their daughters to show that worldly marriages, however glittering and grand . . . are not to be purchased at the expense of religious conviction and truth."g. c gedge, children's fiction -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Digital Images re Emma Courtis (nee Thomas), 31/05/2023
Emma Thomas Collection: Items were owned by Emma Courtis, nee Thomas (1854-3/3/1937. Family lived in Hamelin St, White Hills. Clothing items possibly made by Emma or a local person in White Hills area and used around 1890s. Emma's family include Elizabeth Penrose (mother), Solomon Thomas (father), and Richard Courtis, a blacksmith (her husband). Richard Courtis married Emma Thomas in 1875 and they moved to Melbourne in 1922.Three digital photographs relating to Emma Thomas. a. Emma in her later years but no date recorded. b. The wedding photo is of Emma and Richard's daughter, Ada, who married Hedley Thomas. Donor's grandfather, Richard, is seventh in the third row from the left. He had a moustache then, but she remembers him as a bald man with round glasses. Richard and Emma Courtis are in the third row, fourth, and fifth from the left of the photo. c. Headstone of Emma and Richard who died in Melbourne and are buried there.emma thomas, emma courtis, richard courtis -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - FEMALES: PORTRAIT, C 1908
sepia tinted photograph mounted on cream board. Older woman seated, younger standing behind. Both women wearing corsages, wearing light coloured dresses with leg-o-mutton sleeves, high necklines with bar brooches. Written in pen on back ' To dear Brother Tom and Sister Jane. With our very best love from Bessie and May 2.8.08 ' 'Goggon' wiritten in pencil top back RH top corner.Melba & co, Melbourne.person, family, mother and daughter ? -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - INNER WHEEL CLUB SOUTH BENDIGO COLLECTION: EULOGY FOR ELSIE TWITT
Seven page Eulogy For Elsie Twitt written by her daughter Jan and her brother. Mentioned is her childhood life, meeting her husband Ron and her public achievements. Her brother mainly mentions her home life.bendigo, clubs, inner wheel club south bendigo, inner wheel club south bendigo: eulogy for elsie twitt, james williams, ella williams, alfie williams, doreen williams, lawrence williams, davena williams, norma williams, kevin williams, barry williams, chateau dore, jan twitt, greg twitt, glenn twitt, flora hill primary school, bendigo and district council of mothers clubs, victorian federation of state school mothers clubs committee, joan kirner, bendigo base hospital, inner wheel club of bendigo south, penguin club, caledonian society, presbyterian church, st johns managment, scout groups, ymca, tennis cricket & football clubs, ron twitt, joyce harriot, mirridong