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Jul 10, 2010 · It set sail from Liverpool 70 years ago on 10 July 1940, without the passengers - later known as the Dunera Boys - knowing where they were going. The vessel was crammed with some 2,000 mostly...
The Dunera Boys is a 1985 Australian mini series based on the Dunera incident. [1] Cast. Bob Hoskins as Morrie Mendellsohn. Joseph Spano as Alexander Engelhardt. Warren Mitchell as Mr. Braun. Joseph Furst as The Baron. John Meillon as Brigadier Templeton. Simon Chilvers as Colonel Berry. Julia Blake as Mum. Maurie Fields as Corporal Carter.
In September 1940, 2542 ‘enemy aliens’ from Britain disembarked HMT Dunera in Melbourne and Sydney. Most were Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria. They were interned in camps near Hay and Orange in NSW and Tatura in Victoria. The ‘Dunera Boys’, as they became known, included musicians, artists ...
Learn about the Dunera Boys, a group of refugees who were interned in Australia during World War II. Discover their harrowing voyage, their life in the camps and their legacy.
The 1985 Australian mini series The Dunera Boys depicts the events. The 2001 Oscar-winning documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, features an interview with Dunera and Kindertransport survivor, Alexander Gordon. Nothing remains of Hay internment camp except a road called Dunera Way and a memorial stone which reads:
Sep 6, 2020 · Behind barbed wire: Remembering the Dunera boys Yesterday marked 80 years since the hired military transport Dunera sailed into Pyrmont, Sydney. To mark the 80th anniversary, we look at the story of the late Henry Lippmann OAM and his journey on this infamous voyage.
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Dunera – The history of the Dunera Boys. An involuntary Journey: Dunera. Interned in Australia. In 1940, 2,300 Germans and Austrians – mainly those persecuted by the Nazis – as well as 200 Italians were deported to Australia by the British government. They survived a true horror trip for 57 days.
