Creator Walter Kiessling was interned in September 1939, leaving his pregnant wife, Rosa, alone in Melbourne. After visiting Walter in Dhurringile Interment Camp and then Camp 1, wife Rosa then appealed to Camp 1 Commandant Major Schrader for permission to have Walter visit her and the baby in hospital under guard escort. Soon after, permission was given to take the baby to Camp 1 for a christening with a Lutheran Pastor. While inside Camp 1, Walter and his internee friend Rudolf Schultz crafted the cradle for the baby.Wooden cradle with painted floral decorations and heart shaped holes in the ends.INTERNMENT CAMP TATURA AUSTRALIA JANUARY, 1940kiessling, cradle, woodwork, internment camp woodwork, major schrader, walter kiessling, rudolf schultz

Made by POW's at camp 13.Ornate carved wooden letter opener. Hand turned.N0 13 POW Group Murchison Australiakevin clarke, wooden letter opener, internment camp woodwork

Else-Lore Oertel was a German internee in Camp 3A as a child, with her mother from 1940-1945. Woodworking was popular amongst the internees and Werner Dehnel, another internee in camp 3, made the darning mushroom for Else-Lore, for darning socks.Wooden darning mushroom. Darker wood at top. Base (stalk) is of lighter wood. Both possibly varnished. Stalk has bevelled lines where it meets top. Base has 1939 Australian penny underside. Attached by (ribbon?) to stalk is a cardboard gift tag.Underside of mushroom top: Else/ Love von Onkel Werner. TATURA 1939/41|Attached tag: Fur Else-Lore. Von Onkel Werner.tatura, ww2, camp 3, internment, internee camps, domestic, items, sewing, handcrafts, woodwork

Items made by prisoners from wood scrounged from wood heap. Photographed at display of memorabilia at Templer Home for Aged, Bayswater, Victoria, in 1981.Colour photograph of wooden items - platters with pennies in centre, bowls, globe, egg, buckle, egg cups on tray, mortar and pestle, pipe and ash tray. Negative no. 20.internment camps, ww2, woodwork, handmade, tatura

Photographed at Exhibition of POW memorabilia displayed at Templer Home for Aged, Bayswater, Victoria in 1981. Colour photograph. Toys made by prisoners. Oven (door opens), saucepans (possibly made from jam tins), wardrobe, bath, bed and small cupboards. Negative no 5.furniture - toy, woodwork, craftwork, tin craft, pow, internment camps

Photographed at Exhibition of POW memorabilia displayed at Templer Home for Aged. Bayswater, Victoria, in 1981.Colour photograph. Chess set, draughts counters, tiny toys, aeroplanes and cannons. Highly prized scrap books made with cut outs from foot tin labels.Negative non 2.woodwork, draughts, chess set, pow, internment camps, toys, aeroplanes, cannons

Photographed at Exhibition of POW memorabilia displayed at Templer Home for Aged. Bayswater, Victoria, in 1981.Colour photograph. Wooden sewing box, vases, clock, brooches with shell pictures glued on. Negative no 8. woodwork, box - sewing, jewellery, clock, vases, pow, internment camps

Used in construction of WW2 internment camps.Wooden handle shaped at the top. Metal shaped chisel.McPherson Brothers, Glasgowchisel, woodworking tooks, mcpherson brothers, internment camp construction

Gisela Koch was a German internee in camp 3. She was given the box while in Camp 3. Her niece, Dr. Silke Hesse donated the item.Rectangular shaped polished wooden jewellery box, rounded edges. Hinged lid, brass hinges. Medium-light brown coloured wood. Dark green velvet lining inner & on base. Underside of lid is padded underneath velvet. Has tray insert, velvet covered also. Insert possibly not made of wood, is very light to handle. tatura, internment camps, camp 3, domestic, items, ornaments, decorative, handcrafts, woodwork, containers

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

Handmade by internee at Camp 3Wood plane, camp coins used as washers. One imprinted "Internment Camp". The handle turned on a pedal lathe, also made in Camp. All from materials found in camp surroundsOn coins - "One penny Internment Camp"plane, wood, hoffmann k, hoffmann e, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, handcrafts, woodwork, trades, tools