Compiled reference articles on the Tatura District, 1939-1947. Information from War Museum Archives, Canberra. File 780/1 (2 pages). Tatura and the Shire of Rodney, by W H Bossence. Walls of Wire, Tatura Rushworth Murchison by Joyce Hammond. The Story of the Beilharz Family by Dr. Paul Sauer. Contains a map, with Internment Camps, of the Shire of Rodney, Prisoners of War in Australia During World War 2, Special Requirements for Internees : Accommodation. Chap. 1, Prisoner of War and Internment Camps at Tatura, Vic., Plan of the Camp. Has a pale yellow front cover and a pale blue back cover.document, memo, german heritage society, german heritage society collection - visit to tatura, german heritage society bendigo, german war cemetry, war museum archives canberra, tatura and the shire of rodney, walls of wire tatura rushworth murchison, the story of the beilharz family, ian walder, geoff pedersen, kurt beilharz

Cartoons by Dunera internee at Camp 1 TaturaFramed pen & ink sketched of two men walking and 2 older men standing alongside barbed wire fence. Title "Two Generations". In black and gold wooden frame with a white mat.illustrations, pen, ink, dunera internee, camp 1 artwork

The orchestra consisted of German male civilians interned as "Enemy Aliens" during World War 2. Those interned in 1941 were former Australian residents and New Guinea missionaries.The program indicates the caring attitude of the Australian authorities in permitting the acquisition of musical instruments, and the encouragement offered to the internees in order to produce the concert. Original single page paper program with printed list of orchestral items to be performed by the camp orchestra,19th.and 20th. July 1941, in Internment Camp 1, Tatura. Also lists the names of the members of the orchestra and their instruments.Nil.

Made by Gertrud Streker as an internee at camp 32 small leather buttons, made from old leather shoes. Each button is made of 2 circles of leather over sewn around the edges and thread in the centre where they have been sown onto a garment.gertrud streker, buttons, leather buttons, internee hand crafts

Photograph taken during visit of Apostolic Delegate to Camp 3. Photograph is of Camp 3 German (Templers/Australian Germans/Germans from Persia/Germans from New Guinea) children with the Apostolic Delegate, his Friar and other members of his group and a couple of internee adults. Vagarini in background, back left with his back turned.2 Black and white photograph several adults and lots of children in front of some barracks. 1 large and the other smaller. Copy of original (see notes)vagarini, apostolic delegate to camp 3, camp 3 german children, camp 3 italian children

Original water colour painted by Glunkler an internee at Camp 3Hoefer Familywatecolour of camp 3. 2 half huts half obscured, 2 posts, 9 wire strand fence with an electric powerline. Tall gum tree left hand side, gardens. I. (Note : Glass windows had replaced fly wire by 1941 in the huts.) Glunkler 42painting, watercolour, huts, glunkler, hoefer family, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, illustrations

Found at Camp 2 in 1991, made by Italian Dunera InterneeRectangular piece of tin with series of holes in centrewall ventilator, camp 2, tatura