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Lot 3859 SESSION 12 - 11.30AM THURSDAY 15 APRIL Documents
Estimate $300
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SOLD $380
DUNERA STATEMENT, complaint of treatment together with witness statements by internees of No 7 Camp, Eastern Command, N.S.W., to the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in Australia, twelve roneoed foolscap pages with a cover page featuring a drawing of Camp 7 viewed through a port hole (of H.M.T.Dunera), one of the few existing contemporary copies of the original sent by the joint editorial of the Camp Leaders and the Legal Department of Camp 7, Hay. Of great historical importance, fine and rare.
The inmates of Camp 7 initially were interned in England between May and July 1940 in consequence of general internment orders even though practically all were refugees of Nazi opression because of their religious beliefs. They were then transferred to Camps 7 and 8 at Hay, N.S.W. Australia, being transported on H.M.T.Dunera.
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