Object numberM2015/009:026
DescriptionAutograph book with red leather cover, belonging to Rev. Alcorn, of 33 Harrow Road, Bexley, NSW, dated March 1941. Contains pages of signatures of congregant members who were internees, pencil sketches of Alcorn, guard tower, colour pencil sketches of a Church Christ (by George A. Teltscher, N.R.D, April 1941), colourful watercolour sketch of a parade of horsemen (by P. Glass, dated 15 April 1941), cartoons and poems. The booklet also includes another print of the Alfred Landauer Hay Camp 1940-41 woodcut, with flower growing in an IXL jam tin. Further inscribed by Landauer: Original woodcut (cut in timber our huts are made of).
The talented Paul Georg Glass, a Roman Catholic lawyer from Vienna who had served in the First World War, as well as other artists are represented with their artworks. Includes a cartoon (jackboot with swastika enforcing antisemitic pogroms); poem 'Internees' with 4 stanzas by Richard Uhlmann written 'on the second anniversary of the separation from wife and children'.
This 'Autographs' book is part of the Rev. Alcorn's collection which represents a record of those Jewish and non-Jewish internees who were on board the ship H. M. T. Dunera.
When war broke out, England responded to public panic over the so-called 'enemy within' by interning thousands of foreign nationals. Australia agreed to assist the 'mother country' in this process and in July 1940, the HMT Dunera set sail from Liverpool to Sydney, carrying 2,542 male 'enemy aliens'. Arriving in Sydney on 6 September 1940, the 'Dunera Boys' (as they came to be known) were first interned in Hay and Orange in NSW. Eventually they were brought to Tatura, Victoria. Although behind barbed wire, these camps operated as communities and incorporated canteens, hospitals, dental and recreational facilities, schools, music, theatre and other artistic activities.
The Rev. Alcorn ministered to those internees who declared that they were Protestants of a non Anglican denomination. These 151 internees (according to the lists) formed some 15% of the camp inmates.
Music pages selected for Jewish original music project re Henry Lebovic String Trio (July 2015)
The talented Paul Georg Glass, a Roman Catholic lawyer from Vienna who had served in the First World War, as well as other artists are represented with their artworks. Includes a cartoon (jackboot with swastika enforcing antisemitic pogroms); poem 'Internees' with 4 stanzas by Richard Uhlmann written 'on the second anniversary of the separation from wife and children'.
This 'Autographs' book is part of the Rev. Alcorn's collection which represents a record of those Jewish and non-Jewish internees who were on board the ship H. M. T. Dunera.
When war broke out, England responded to public panic over the so-called 'enemy within' by interning thousands of foreign nationals. Australia agreed to assist the 'mother country' in this process and in July 1940, the HMT Dunera set sail from Liverpool to Sydney, carrying 2,542 male 'enemy aliens'. Arriving in Sydney on 6 September 1940, the 'Dunera Boys' (as they came to be known) were first interned in Hay and Orange in NSW. Eventually they were brought to Tatura, Victoria. Although behind barbed wire, these camps operated as communities and incorporated canteens, hospitals, dental and recreational facilities, schools, music, theatre and other artistic activities.
The Rev. Alcorn ministered to those internees who declared that they were Protestants of a non Anglican denomination. These 151 internees (according to the lists) formed some 15% of the camp inmates.
Music pages selected for Jewish original music project re Henry Lebovic String Trio (July 2015)
Production date 1941 - 1941
SubjectDunera, internment camps
Object nameautograph books
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 155.00 mm
height: 109.00 mm
depth: 6.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Garry Hogden