Publications

This section contains information about various books published by or about Dunera Boys and also the TV Mini Series ‘The Dunera Boys’.

Defending The Country - Fighting The Flag

Past Events

Dunera Association Hay Reunion – 2-3 September 2022

In recognition of the 82nd Anniversary of the arrival of the Dunera Boys at the Hay Internment and POW Camps 7 and 8 in 1940. (unfortunately the 80th anniversary was postponed in 2020) The Dunera Museum has had a […]

83rd Anniversary of the arrival of Dunera Boys & Queen Mary Internees

1 pm – Official opening & welcome by Sue Schmitke (Tatura Museum) and Ron Reichwald (Dunera Association). Introduction of guest speakers 1.10 pm – Special presentation of Sergeant Snow White restored artefact – Kathleen Whelan, daughter of Dunera Boy Bertold […]

HAY – HIRSCHFELD-MACK WEBINAR

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81st anniversary of the Dunera Boys in Tatura & opening exhibition of art by Paul Mezulianick

You are invited to a special event, presented by the Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Monash University and the Dunera Association, marking the 81st anniversary of the Dunera Boys and Queen Mary internees landing in Tatura. The event will […]

KURT KRISZHABER MEMORIAL PROJECT

The project to place a monument on the unmarked grave of Kurt Kriszhaber derived from an exhibition at the Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Naples, Florida. In that exhibition a letter was shown which had been written by Kurt […]

80th Anniversary event – Survival through Sculpture: Dunera, Queen Mary & the art of Karl Duldig

In September 1940, the British authorities deported German and Italian ‘enemy aliens’ from Singapore on the Queen Mary. They were taken to an internment camp in Tatura, Victoria, where they joined some of the Dunera internees who had disembarked in […]