The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book edited by Paul R Bartrop with Gabrielle Eisen

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Right front cover corner tail corner now protected with book tape.

A collection of official correspondence, testimonies and reminiscences of internees, published to accompany an exhibition on the transfer from Britain to Australia of 2,732 prisoners of war and enemy aliens, most of the latter Jewish refugees - on the military transport Dunera.

Their brutal mistreatment by the guards aboard the ship is described in addition to their life in Australian internment camps and negotiations for their release in an Australia unwilling to receive them. (Trove)