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  • In 1940, a further two thousand refugee internees from Germany and Austria, together with two hundred former Italian Fascists and 250 German prisoners of war, were deported from England by the British government on the infamous boat, the Dunera, which had been built to accommodate only sixteen hundred passengers.

    Australia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

  • It is much smaller than the H.S. _Dunera_ I came home in from South Africa.

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

  • The Dunera Boys: Seventy Years On tells the story of an overloaded passenger ship filled with more than 2500 German, Austrian and Italian men, which landed in Sydney in September,

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • The Dunera Boys: Seventy Years On tells the story of an overloaded passenger ship filled with more than 2500 German, Austrian and Italian men, which landed in Sydney in September,

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • The Dunera Boys: Seventy Years On tells the story of an overloaded passenger ship filled with more than 2500 German, Austrian and Italian men, which landed in Sydney in September,

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • Conditions on the Dunera were atrocious, it was crowded and unsanitary, the ship was at risk of enemy attack, and many of the prisoners were mistreated and traumatised by the time the eight-week journey to Australia was complete.

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • Survivor Bern Brent, who at 17 was one of the youngest internees on the Dunera, said seeing the exhibition had brought memories to the surface.

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • Conditions on the Dunera were atrocious, it was crowded and unsanitary, the ship was at risk of enemy attack, and many of the prisoners were mistreated and traumatised by the time the eight-week journey to Australia was complete.

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

  • We started at the National Library, where we checked out their current exhibition on the Dunera boys.

    web-goddess 2010

  • Survivor Bern Brent, who at 17 was one of the youngest internees on the Dunera, said seeing the exhibition had brought memories to the surface.

    The Canberra Times - Front Page 2010

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