Ms E Quinton has a question – can anyone help please? (email address supplied) Are you able to confirm for me that the Dunera was in dry dock in Glasgow around late 1944-45. My father was an officer on the … Continue reading →
Posted on behalf of John Cannan at the Ramsey Heritage Centre Many thanks for the information John Mike Thank you for your reply on the website. I am particularly interested in the “special” internees who were interned for as period … Continue reading →
There are several mentions of the boys, Chris and Oswald Wolkenstein, in Alan Gill’s book “Interrupted Journeys”. Particularly interesting is the exact date they were released from Tatura Camp 2 to go to Xavier College in Melbourne – January 12th, … Continue reading →
Hello, I’ve written a small book about the German Jewish industrialist Ottmar E. Strauss, for our local museum in Königswinter, Germany. For an example look at http://www.brueckenhof.de/strauss.pdf please. His brother, Nathan Strauss, emigrated to Great Britain. He was transported with … 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 →
My father, Christopher Wolkenstein, kept an amazing daily diary of his experiences, and the 1940-1943 volume is filled with interesting writings, pictures, diagrams, newspaper clippings, etc. As his hand-writing is a little challenging, I have typed out some of his … Continue reading →
Thank you to Mr Mundy for the following email. Anyone else know anything about this time in the Dunera lifetime? Let us know! Just to mention that I sailed on the Dunera from Durban to Batavia in January 1942 (the … Continue reading →
Michael Ayres 28th May 09 Is there any record of DUNERA’s movements immediately prior to July 1940, when she sailed to Australia? I am British but was born in Marseille in July 1939. My parents are long dead, but I … Continue reading →
