National Capital Attractions Association » Events http://www.nationalattractions.com.au Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:05:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Dunera Boys: 70 years on. National Library of Australia http://www.nationalattractions.com.au/2010/08/25/the-dunera-boys-70-year-on-national-library-of-australia/ http://www.nationalattractions.com.au/2010/08/25/the-dunera-boys-70-year-on-national-library-of-australia/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:02 +0000 admin http://www.nationalattractions.com.au/?p=458  This Collection-in-Focus exhibition reveals wartime stories of survival and achievement and coincides with the 70th anniversary of the arrival from Britain of HMT Dunera. The ship carried over 2500 German, Austrian and Italian ‘enemy aliens’ to Australia, for internment in rural camps. Many internees were of Jewish heritage and had escaped to Britain from the horrors of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Visitor Centre, Ground Floor, National Library of Australia
Open daily, free
Tours of The Dunera boys: Seventy Years On are available on request.
Please contact 02 6262 1271 or bookings@nla.gov.au

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