Thank you Lynn Shutt for bringing this video up to our attention on our Facebook Page….. The National Library in Canberra is hosting an exhibition marking 70 years since a group of people were interned as enemy aliens in camps … Continue reading →
A short video biography of Karl Guttmann, Karl Guttman, a Dunera Boy, an exceptional engineer, and an implacable writer of “Letters to the Editor” of the San Francisco Chronicle for 50 years. This is a video of his life and … Continue reading →
The enemy alien who loved us May 24 2003 Count Oswald Veit Von Wolkenstein, Aristocrat and Dunera boy, 1924-2003 Count Oswald Veit Von Wolken- stein. It rolls nicely off the tongue; the sort of name that should be accompanied by … Continue reading →
I have just learned that a relative of mine was one of the Dunera Boys. Our family lost track of this man and his parents in the mid-1930s, but I now know, from the Australian and UK Archives, that he … Continue reading →
HANNAH & EMIL By: Belinda Castles A compelling novel of love and courage in wartime from the Vogel Award-winner Emil and Hannah live their lives amid the turmoil of 20th-century history. Emil, a German veteran of the Great War, has … Continue reading →
Hi my Dad was a Dunera boy having travelled out to Australia and landing in Hay. Before he died, my Dad rarely spoke about his young life but my sister and I found out he was on this boat through … Continue reading →
On 10 July 1940 the HMT Dunera left Liverpool, England with 2,036 Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany, 451 German and Italian prisoners of war and others scheduled for internment in the remote rural town of Hays in New South … Continue reading →
My father (George Haim) was a Dunera Boy and came back to England. He did not talk much about his experience but we have a few artefacts. He died in 1972. I am in contact with Tanya Tintner (nee Buchdahl) … Continue reading →
Hello Mike and all your visitors. I am an actor/filmmaker, currently working on a documentary as writer/director about Austrian athletics coach, Franz Stampfl (the man who coached Roger Bannister to break the 4 minute mile in England), who was also … Continue reading →
I am including a few pics of granddad as a British soldier, and as a business man. His family moved to the US first and after he married my grandmother in England they followed. My mother and father(son) moved to … Continue reading →
I thought I would share the details of my grandfather’s experience on the Dunera. He was also interred at the Hay Camp in Australia. I have his diary, which gives many details of his experience. Newspaper clippings, and watercolors. His … Continue reading →
Hi Mike, Following is the latest Dunera News from the Association of “Dunera Boys” and it has heaps of photos from the 70th Anniversary celebrations at Hay – including a re–enactment of the boys arriving in their four 12 carriage … Continue reading →