Box of children's books. Camp 3. Ex Palestine German internee Camp 3. WW2 children's books brought from Palestine 1941.

The camp sites today are on private property, and as they were dismantled after the war, and on the closure of the Migrant camp, very little physical evidence remains today.Camp 3 held 1000 internees, Germans, Jews and Italians, including German Lutheran families from New Guinea, German families from Palestine (Templer settlement) and Austrian Jewish refugees. After the war camp 3 became the first camp for Displaced persons in Victoria, where families could live until work and accommodation was found for them.Many pages, with 12 photos on each page, of scenes showing the remains from camp 3camp 3 rushworth

After WW1 the Wilhelma Templer village bought ex WW1 German Armed Forces Brass instruments for their own Brass Band. The Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany from having more than a 10,000 man army thus creating a flood of unwanted instruments with no one having cash to buy them. With the deportation in August 1941 by the British Mandate of most Templers from Palestine to Australia, one of the young bachelors, Gustav Reichert, obtained permission to bring these instruments to Tatura. This he did and, in Camp 3, a band was reformed to entertain members of both internees and often, Camp Authorities. Gustav enjoyed playing the double brass with the Melbourne Templer Brass Band in the 1960-1970's. The above instruments have semi-rotary valves, as traditionally French Horns do, unlike most Anglosaxon bands, where piston valves are used almost exclusively. Yet in German the name Piston is commonly used for cornet. Though battered, these instruments are all still serviceable for their intended use, some more so than others. Their canvas carry bags offered little protection. The group comprised 1 double bass, 1 Euphonium, 1 valve bass trombone, all in C, 3 baritones in Bb (German tenor horns), 3 cornets in Bb, 1 soprano cornet in Eb, in all 11 instruments. Some of the got "lost".Brass cornet with a canvas carry bag.brass instruments, wilhelma templer village, camp 3 band, gustav reichert

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

made and used by internee at camp 3.Brown wooden frame that is similar in shape to that of a coin purse. The bag opens by pulling apart the top two wooden rails to reveal the inside of the calico coloured material the bag is made of.knitting bag, sewing bag, camp 3 hand work

Children's book brought from Jaffa, Palestine in 1941 by the Drescher family, internees in Camp 3.Hard cover story book with coloured illustrations of girl drawing back curtain disclosing wolf in bed. Grey cloth spine.drescher, grimms, internees camp 3, children's books

Poems written by internee at Camp 3, Palestine group.Clear plastic black back folder containing 20 verse poems, written in Germancamp 3, palestine group, internee poems, annie lorenz

Recorder made by German refugees from Palestine in camp 3Recorder made from red gum in camp 3. Made by German internees from Palestine.w.w.2, internment camps in australia

Macrame belt made by German refugees from Palestine in camp 3 Made by German internees from Palestine .Macrame belt made from cotton - metalw.w.2, internment camps in australia

Artist Mr Winkler a camp 3 internee from Palestine painted a watercolour of these internment camp huts behind the barbed wire in 1942ww2, camp 3 art works

Presented by Mrs Lotte Hoopmann 1992Monsignor Owens with children, Compound A Camp 3 1942-1943. About 50 youngsters and 6 adults. Palestine Templer children and Italian children in front of four huts.internee children, camp 3 children, italian children in camp 3, palestine templer children in camp 3, templer society, monsignor owens