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The Dunera Boys is a 1985 Australian mini series based on the Dunera incident. Cast. Bob Hoskins - Morrie Mendellsohn; Joseph Spano - Alexander Engelhardt; Warren Mitchell - Mr. Braun; Joseph Furst - The Baron; John Meillon - Brigadier Templeton; Simon Chilvers - Colonel Berry; Julia Blake - Mum; Maurie Fields - Corporal Carter; Alex ...
10 lug 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...
Most were German or Austrian, and most were Jewish. Many had fled to Britain in the 1930s to escape Hitler’s Reich. Churchill later described the arrest and internment of these men, now commonly known as the ‘Dunera boys’, as ‘a deplorable mistake’. Italians, German merchant seamen and others were also among the 2546.
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:
19 mag 2006 · The ‘Dunera Boys’, as they became known, included musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists and writers. Following their release in 1941 many chose to remain in Australia, making a significant contribution to the nation’s economic, social and cultural life.
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.
The ‘Dunera Boys’, German Jews and other refugees from Nazi occupied Europe, were the first internees of British Government WWII policy and arrived in Hay on 7th September 1940. The museum houses exhibits, photographs, stories and music about experiences of internees, POW’s and townsfolk.
