Original photographs of scenes in the German Concentration Camps in Australia, 1914-1920 [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1585627
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1914-1920
- 1 album (32 photographs) : b&w ; 25 x 19 cm.
- Summary:
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Photographs are numbered and listed. The collection includes views of internment camps, commonly known as German Concentration Camps at Torrens Island, S. Aust., and Holdsworthy and Trial Bay in N.S.W. One of the photographs is reproduced in: An illustrated diary of Australian internment camps / Edmond Samuels.
- Biography/History:
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Within one week of the declaration of war in 1914 all German subjects in Australia were declared enemy aliens. In February 1915 enemy aliens were interned either voluntarily or on an enforced basis. In New South Wales the principal place of internment was the Holdsworthy Military Camp where between 6,000 and 7,000 men were detained. Men were also interned at Trial Bay Gaol (constructed 1889). The internees at Trial Bay Gaol created their own management committees that organised entertainment, sport, culture and arts activities. Over 350 'enemy aliens' were interned at the Torrens Island Concentration Camp which opened on 9 October 1914. Internees were mainly of German or Austro-Hungarian background, including some who were naturalised British citizens. Some internees were crew members of enemy nationality who were taken from ships in Australian ports.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on list at front of album.
- Ferguson collection.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141207869
- Album 648.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Prisoners of war
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1920
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