Babette Kirsch was a member of a New Guinea Lutheran Missionary family and knitted the cardigan Green long sleeved ladies button up woollen cardigan. 2 pockets, 12 brown wooden buttons, double moss stitch pattern on body, garter stitch collarladies cardigan, babette kirsch, woollen clothing, lutheran missionaries, new guinea missionaries, hedwig schulz, internment camp hand craft

Off white woven scarf with tassels each end. 10 stripes across width.internment camp hand crafts, winter clothing accessory

Photographed at Exhibition of Camp Memorabilia displayed at Temper Home for Aged, Bayswater, Victoria, in 1981.Colour photograph. Variety of tools made from whatever material one could lay one's hands on. Negative no 20.hand crafts, pow, internment camp, hand tools

Made by internee at Camp 3 TaturaRectangular handmade wooden tray. Base has wood inlays feature map of Australia, kangaroo, emu, model of camp hut andd 4 internment camp coins. Also has hand printed working.Tatura Victoria Australien 1941-1944camp 3 wood crafts

Made by Internee Max Baumann in Camp 13.Hand woven brown wool man's tie.men's ties, max baumann, men's clothing accessory., internment camp hand crafts

Else-Lore Oertel, with her mother, was a German internee in Camp 3A as a child, from 1940-1945. The ballerina & stand were made by persons unknown & given to Else-Lore while in the camp & was one of her childhood 'treasures'.Hand painted thin plywood decoration of ballerina inside a ring / circle, with wooden stand. Outer circle shape with insert for stand, cut out of ballerina posed inside. All carved from one piece of plywood. Circle is painted purple. Ballerina inside circle is plain plywood painted with mainly yellow, blue & white costume. Stand is flat disc with slot for ballerina cutout to insert into. Stand is painted gold. Handmade.internment, internee camps, ornaments, toys, else-lore oertel, internment camp hand crafts, childhood treasures, ballarina

Handknitted by internee Helene Hoefer, at Camp 3, for her daughter Traude.Child's knitted long sleeved woollen frock, green in colour with bands of yellow and red at edgings. Has knitted tie belt and 4 bown wooden shank buttons on centre opening of bodice.traude glenk, traude hoefer, knitted clothing, internment camp hand crafts, children's clothing, helene hoefer

Made in Tatura Internment Camp for the Internee's son and daughter.Jewel box, hand craft wooden, lined internally, and containing two tortoise shell carved pendants, tortoise shell and leather wrist ornament held with metal clasp, and an aluminium toy fighter plane lapel badge.Raised circular section on lid with letter "B"handcrafts, woodwork

Made by internees at Camp 3, TaturaTriangular shaped hand knitted woollen scarf. Navy blue with light blue stripes.scarf, hoefer family, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, internment camp hand crafts