Tatura Museum

Tatura Museum has one of the most extensive collections of Dunera art and artefacts in Australia as well as an extensive collection depicting the local history of other war internment camps, local family history and irrigation.

https://www.taturamuseum.com/

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Past Events

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 […]

Frank Hofmann, Robyn Hofmann, Frances Federer (Poland), Stefan Majka (Poland), Suzanne Hofmann (Perth) & Gerry Hofmann (Perth).

79th Anniversary Melbourne Dunera Reunion

The 79th reunion of members and friends of the Dunera Association was held on November 10 at Sukiert Hall, Caulfield Shule. Around 70 people attended and enjoyed the new venue and afternoon high tea format. Peter Felder welcomed everyone present […]

Jana Wendt and local Councillor Kym O Keefe

New Gallery at Tatura Museum

On 15 September, 2019 a function was held at the Tatura Wartime Camps Museum. The purpose was two fold: to open a new gallery and to launch the exhibition Immigration and the Refugee: The Art of Erwin Fabian. Attended by […]

79th Anniversary Sydney Dunera Reunion

L-R: Paula James (daughter), Henry James (Dunera) & Leah James (wife).Henry James – 97 ½ yrs old (originally Heinz Jacobius) The Sydney Reunion commemorating the 79th anniversary of the arrival of the Dunera Boys in Sydney was held at the […]

78th Anniversary Tatura Dunera Reunion

Participants viewing the ‘mountain’ of barbed wire which was used in camp 3’.

78th Anniversary Melbourne Dunera Reunion

The 78th reunion of members and friends of the Dunera Association was held on 13 November at the Kimberley Gardens function centre in East St.Kilda. About 60 people attended the event including Dunera Boy Henry Hirsch accompanied by his wife, […]

78th Anniversary Hay Dunera Reunion

Reflecting on my 16th trip to a Hay Dunera reunion, I could not help but reminisce about previous such occasions in Hay. The journey to Hay is obviously the same each year, yet I marvel at the changing landscape from the undulating […]

78th Anniversary Sydney Dunera Reunion

Twenty-five people attended the reunion at the Sydney Jewish Museum, including Rachel Travers and Julie Lippmann, widows of Dunera Boys Walter Travers and Henry Lippmann. Sydney committee member John Ebert opened the event, welcoming all and especially the first- time visitors. Peter Felder reported on the […]