German Kormoran survivors going ashore

Tells the life story of Ethel May Punshon, from Ballarat to St Kilda Victoria, spanning over a century and the crucial historical events she witnessed.

Soft cover paperback. Front cover has white writing for title and author. Pink and orange speckled background. Lady in a brown jacket and tie, with cream shirt and holding a double barrel shotgun. Spine is speckled orange with book title in white. Authors name in a white section. Back cover is orange and pink speckled with a white section giving a blurb about the book and author.

ethel may punshon, monte, miss montague, mickey and erica morley, camp 3 internment camp

Dr Frederich Kaempfe, a Chemist, was interned in Camp 3. He was captured in Iran on 15/09/1941 and transferred on the Rangitiki to Loveday South Australia. Transferred to Tatura in Feb 1945 and released to Sydney on 20 July 1946.

Pastel drawing of a large gum tree surrounded by smaller gum tress in an undulating paddock.Blue hills in the background.

F. Kaempte 1945

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Written by Hans Wolter von Gruenewaldt, a German internee, who was interned at Camp 13. A theatre group was established within the Camp to present plays and concert performances and thus Die Nibelungen, a trnditional German Legend by Hempel was to be staged. There are 3 editions of this book. This is a copy of Hans Wolter's original version.

White cardboard front and back with a black strip as edge binder. Title in black with D and N in red. 24 pages in soft cardboard.

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Author Margot Warnett grew up on a Dairy farm just outside Tatura

A4 size paperback book with predominantly blue sky and an illustration of two girls standing on a wire farm gate. One girls has a purple check dress on, black gum boots and holding a white rabbit. The other girls has a blue dress, gum boots and holding a black duck. A white and brown horse, a calf, a sheep and farm dog and a lizard are also in the picture. The two girls are also pictured on the back cover.

Written by Margot Warnett Illustrated by Julie Haysom

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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-fiction

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.

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Sgt Allan Timms was a Sergeant in Camp 3 Tatura

Black and white portrait of Camp 3 Army Garrison Sergeant Allan Timms in uniform. Wearing uniform hat and Sergeant strips on his uniform.

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No 1 Camp Garrison beer garden. The sergeant is from the Canteen Sgt's Mess

Black and white photograph of the No 1 Camp Garrison Beer garden. Two hunts on the left of picture and and a partial glimpse of huts on the right. The huts are surrounded by gardens. In the centre of the garden is a table with two bench seats on either side. A man is standing off to the right of photo. A large tree behind him.

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Camp 1 Tatura

Black and White photo of Camp 1 Parade Ground with Guard Room on left with the number 24 on the side of one of the huts. Guards lined up outside on each side of ground. Personnel Hub on right. A stone walled garden is on the right. Two poles in the middle of the picture.

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No 1 camp compound Tatura

Black and White photograph of No 1 Camp compound. Two huts behind a wire fence. Trees in the background. In the foreground is a round garden.

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The pendant was made for Sister Lorraine Danson by a German internee

Black and white photograph of a silver pendant made from a silver florin. A cut-out of a kookaburra and a baby bird with its mouth open sit of a branch. Leaves hang from another branch.

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The tennis court at 28 Camp Hospital Tatura

Black and White photograph of a tennis court, Two men and two women player each holding racquets. The court is surrounded by tall poles some appear to have lights on them. small shrubs in the foreground.

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28 Camp Hospital Tatura

Black and white photograph of four hospital staff. Sister J Berryman in Nurses uniform with veil; an A.W.A.S Cook; a German Orderly; Sister E. Henderson in army uniform and hat. Standing in front of an unknown object on a path. Trees behind.

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No 28 Camp Hospital Tatura

Black and white photograph of seven No 28 Camp Hospital staff pictured beside the Adminstration Block. Left to Right: Sgt "Blosson"; Sgt ?; Sister N Hamilton; Pte Mulrogue; Cpl (stores); Pte Malick; Sgt Sarsfield

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