Dunera News

A publication for former refugees from Nazi and Fascist persecution (mistakenly shipped to and interned in Australia at Hay and Tatura, many later serving with the Allied Forces), their relatives and their friends.

No.103 July 2018

77th Anniversary Tatura Reunion

15 April 2018

Foundation Editor: The late Henry Lippmann OAM

Editorial responsibility:The Committee of the Dunera Association

The views expressed by writers of particular articles in this publication are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those

of the Dunera Association.

Letters and articles for publication are welcome.Email: duneraboys@gmail.com

Cover image by Kaye Watson.

CONTENTS

From the President 3

Tatura Visit 2018 4

Dunera Lives – A Visual History 6 Book launch

Captain Broughton 8 – By Eva de Jong-Duldig

Out of Austria – The Anschluss 10 – By Eva de Jong-Duldig

Jimmy King 12 – A tribute

Helga Levy 15 – A tribute

The Dunera Boys 16 – Letter from Pauline Snow

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 17 – Letter from George Lederer

Hay Reunion Program 18

Many thanks to all the contributors.

George Lederer was born in Vienna in 1920. He attended the same school in Wein as three other Dunera Boys, though not in the same year – Reinhold Eckfeld, Georg Auer, Henry Teltscher.

George was in Camp 7, Hut 26 (Roebuck) in Hay, along with Andrew Eppenstein (camp leader), Mike Sondheim, and Georg and Henry Teltscher (Georg designed the Camp 7 notes).

George and other internees were able to study for the matriculation exam in the camps through the assistance provided by the Quakers to establish a relationship with Melbourne University. Books were provided to set up libraries in camps.

George returned to the UK on the Themistocles in 1942. He joined his brother in New York in 1943. He gained admission to university in the US and studied civil engineering and made a successful career.

In Peter Lehner’s contribution to the farewell of the Roebuck hut, In Sunny Riverina, he had this to say about George.

The language of the Portuguesefor George does hold no mysteriesAnd even with the Japanesehe can converse quite at his easeIn Sunny Riverina

George has kept in touch with the Dunera Association over the years and has provided articles and valuable information. We are truly grateful for his generosity in sharing his memories with us, another of which appears on page 17 regarding Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz.

Dunera Boys, George Lederer and Ali Volk

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From the President

Welcome to Dunera News number 103. Since my last report we have come together at the Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum and celebrated the 77th Reunion at Tatura. An enthusiastic group of about 20 attendees were shown an excellent new video made by the museum, recording life in the wartime camps and the background of some of the occupants of the camps. We hope to be able to show this video at future events. A big thank you again to the friendly folk from the Tatura Historical Society for their hospitality.

This edition has a most interesting story regarding a letter sent by Captain Broughton to Karl Duldig. There is also a tribute to one of the inaugural committee members, Jimmy King.

We were greatly saddened by the recent death of Helga Levy, partner of Mike Sondheim. Helga Levy was a long-term staunch supporter of Mike’s work for the Dunera Association.

You will also find a report of the very successful launch of Dunera Lives – A Visual History, by Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan. The book was launched in Canberra and Melbourne. We understand that the book has gone to a second print run already. This demonstrates once again that there really is great interest in the story of internees.

A membership renewal form is included with this newsletter. We greatly value your financial support as it keeps the Association vibrant and allows us to continue all our activities.

Dates of the 78th reunions for your diary are on the back cover of the newsletter. I hope you can join us for these events.

You can keep in touch or update your details by contacting duneraboys@gmail.com or join our Facebook group – Friends of the Dunera Boys.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Dunera News.

Peter FelderPresidentDunera Association

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A highly successful visit to Tatura was held on 15 April 2018. About 25 Dunera members and friends gathered, on a blustery autumn day, at the Tatura World War II Wartime Camps Museum. Sadly there were no Dunera Boys in attendance.

While enjoying the country hospitality, we perused the many artefacts, artworks, reconstruction of huts, letters, memorabilia and other items in the immense collection that is overseen by the local historical society.

It was a pleasure to welcome some first-time visitors to Tatura, including Singapore Group descendant Ron Beer.

We had the pleasure of watching a new documentary compiled by the Tatura Museum titled The Seven Wartime Camps at Tatura. The first part of the film gives an excellent summary of the background to the camps and the arrival of the first group of Dunera internees in 1940. It also details the transfer of Dunera Boys from Hay to Tatura camps and the internment of the Singapore Group in the family camps 3 and 4.

Tatura Historical Society president, Steve Barnard, welcomed people to the Tatura Museum and introduced John Gribben who later conducted a tour of camp 1.

While imagining the 1000 inmates at each camp, it conjures up a rather desolate situation. One visitor reminded us that the Australian guards were fair and reasonable, food was ample and medical care was provided for the internees. In addition, cultural life in camp flourished, including lectures, clubs, sporting teams, theatrical and musical performances, study of matriculation and technical subjects through the “Collegium Taturense” which was organised by the internees.

We are once again grateful to George Ferguson, Lurline and Arthur Knee, and the president, committee and volunteers from the Tatura and District Historical Society for their hospitality and kindness to the Dunera Association.

Tatura Visit 2018

Attendees at the Tatura Museum.Sarah and Erica Chadderton, and Tonia Eckfeld,

granddaughter and daughters of Reinhold Eckfeld.

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Tour guide John Gribben with attendees at the Tatura camp site. All images by Kaye Watson.

George Ferguson, Rebecca Silk and Peter Felder.

Robyn Fuerst, daughter of Walter Fuerst (Fürst).

Michelle Frenkel with Rhonda Rose.

Dean and Paul Haarburger, with Rebecca Silk.

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Dunera Lives – A Visual HistoryBy Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan

When scholars of such rigorous and refined erudition engage with a topic of such critical importance it is a cause for celebration, as are the lives themselves, painstakingly recorded so movingly herein. And all of it comes into the world not a moment too soon. —Elliot Perlman

This is social and cultural history at its best – one connecting a place that seemed to these unwilling immigrants as if it might be the very end of the earth with the overwhelming tragedy of twentieth-century European history. —Frank Bongiorno

It’s the generous spirit of humanity that makes this book so wonderful. —Raimond Gaita

The Dunera story is one of the great sagas of our history. This brilliant book brings it – and the Dunera boys – back to life. —Phillip Adams

In July 1940, about 2000 refugees, most of whom were Jewish and from Germany or Austria, were sent from Britain to Australia on the HMT Dunera. The story of the ‘Dunera boys’ is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these men suffered in internment camps at Hay, Tatura and Orange is well known. Less familiar is the tale of what happened to them afterwards.

Dunera Lives tells that story primarily through images. The images, beautiful and powerful, reveal tales of struggle, sadness, transcendence, and creativity, and describe the lives of these men and of the society in which they lived, first as prisoners and then as free men. A contribution to the history of Australia, to the history of migrants and migration, and to the history of human rights, this book helps to tell a story the full dimensions and complexity of which have never been described.

Ken Inglis (1929–2017) was an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. He was one of Australia’s most admired and warmly regarded historians.

Seumas Spark is a Dean of Arts Research Fellow at Monash University.

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University, and a Visiting Professor at the Australian National University.

Carol Bunyan was born in and raised near Hay, a sixth generation resident of the district. She studied history at the Australian National University in Canberra,

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where she now lives. A former public servant, her interest in Hay’s history and museums led to her on-going Dunera research.

Dunera Lives was launched at the National Library of Australia by Frank Bongiorno on 4 July 2018, at the Jewish Museum of Australia by Raimond Gaita on 8 July and Readings Bookshop, Hawthorn on 9 July.

Dunera Lives – A Visual HistoryRRP $39.95Media enquiries to Sarah Cannon sarah.cannon@monash.edu +61 3 9905 0526Monash University Publishingwww.publishing.monash.edupublishing@monash.edu

Camp 3, Tatura. Photographer unknown.

Page 196 – Photograph from the collection of Bern Brent, who as Gerd Bernstein was among the Dunera internees who left the ship at Melbourne on 3 September 1940.

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Captain BroughtonBy Eva de Jong-Duldig

Curators at the Duldig Studio recently found a letter from Captain Broughton written in 1945 while Broughton was serving in the Allied Works Council (AWC) in Alice Springs. Addressed to sculptor Karl Duldig, it refers to the bronze portrait bust Karl had modelled of Broughton while he was serving in the 8th Employment Company in 1942. Karl wanted to loan this work for his first Australian solo exhibition at Kozminsky Galleries Melbourne in October 1945.

After Broughton died in 1955, the bronze head vanished and its fate is still unknown. The Duldig Studio cast a second bronze portrait from the original plaster for the permanent collection of the Australian War Memorial in 1992.

Karl Duldig, portrait of Captain Broughton, 1942, bronze (lost)

Letter from Captain Broughton to Karl Duldig, 1945.

Introduction card from Captain Broughton to Fred Latchford, 1945.

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Eva de Jong-DuldigImages © Duldig Studio Melbourne

Wednesday 5/9/45 From ER BroughtonAssistant Personnel Officer AWCAWC Hostel Alice Springs N.T.

My dear Karl

Your letter of the 1st inst came to hand yesterday. Naturally I was very pleased to hear from you.

I am only too delighted to allow you to exhibit the bronze portrait of myself which you were so kind to do for me.

It is at the home of Mr Fred Latchford, 376 Danks Street, Middle Park.

I’ve written to him on the matter. Please show him this letter and introduce yourself by means of the enclosed card. He will hand over the portrait to you for exhibition.

I sincerely hope and trust that your exhibition will be very successful and by means thereof get the publicity and patronage your talents merit.

Unfortunately it is impossible for me to accept your kind invitation to be present as it will not be until November of next year (1946) that I shall be taking recreational leave from the AWC.

My health is excellent. This place is 2000 feet above sea level. The winter and spring climate is ideal. Cool nights followed by glorious sunny days. Dress is most informal thank goodness off duty in the daytime I rarely wear a shirt.

The colour of my skin now closely resembles the colour of my features that you modelled into the bronze bust. My waistline is less than 37 inches.

This month if everything goes according to plan I and the rest of the HQrs Staff of the AWC will be transferred to Darwin. I’ve been here 15 weeks & not unlike most wanderers would appreciate a change of abode after nearly 4 months in the one place.

Please convey my best wishes to Mrs Duldig. I sincerely hope that she, yourself and your daughter are all well – Auf wiedersehen

In liebes Verehrung

Edward R Broughton

I’ve a good job and am contented and happy.

EB

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I was born on 11 February 1938 in Vienna. Barely one month later Nazi Germany invaded Austria and on 13 March, Hitler proclaimed the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Germany) in front of hundreds of thousands of flag-waving enthusiastic Austrians.

The Anschluss took place 80 years ago. It is also the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as 170 years since the beginning of the reign of Franz-Josef I (1848–1916), the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In hindsight it is interesting to reflect on the significance of these dates and their effect on European history.

1848 marked the beginning of arguably one of the most prosperous periods in the history of Austria. By the beginning of the 20th century Vienna, the capital of the Empire, was considered the most modern capital city in Europe. It was a city of two million people enriched by the cultures of the vassal states to the east with a vibrant middle class of merchants, bankers and financiers. In 1910 there were no less than three thousand cars on the streets of the city and the advances in technology, medicine and the natural sciences had begun to make life easier for the average citizen.

Under the protection of the Hapsburg Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, millions of Jews lived in the vast central European domain of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Emperor said “the civil rights and the country’s policy is not contingent on the people’s religion”. By his personal decree, Jews enjoyed a greater degree of emancipation than ever before and were largely protected from persecution. As part of extending human rights to all his subjects, Jews had freedom of movement and residence, were permitted to own land, and were able to work in the public service and the professions.

Approximately 10 percent of Vienna’s population was Jewish and the city came to be known as the most ‘Jewish’ capital in Europe. Academics, artists, composers, designers and even sportspeople achieved recognition, and Jews were also prominent in business and finance. However, in spite of their significant contribution to the prosperity and culture of the state, anti-Semitism was endemic in all sections of society, and many Jews chose to assimilate or convert in order to advance their professional careers and/or their social standing.

When the heir to the Hapsburg Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated on 28 June 1914 by a Serbian Nationalist in Sarajevo, and Austria declared war on Serbia, nobody could have predicted that soon after the world would be at war. The ‘war to end all wars’ had major repercussions for Europe.

At the end of the 1st World War the Treaty of Versailles saw the disintegration of the

Out of Austria – The AnschlussBy Eva de Jong-Duldig

Karl Duldig, self-portrait © Duldig Studio Melbourne

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Austro-Hungarian Empire that had encompassed most of central Europe since the 13th century. Poland was again an independent country as were Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and many other former vassal states. Vienna was now the capital of a new Republic of Austria with a population of only six million people instead of the 52 million that had made up the old Empire. Political upheaval, together with the economic hardship of the Depression, resulted in a further destabilisation of society and serious social unrest soon followed.

Similar political and economic dissatisfaction in the neighbouring Weimar Republic of Germany encouraged the rise of radical right-wing parties who found popular support for their Anti-Communist platform, their objections to the Treaty of Versailles and their anti-semitism. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 the Third Reich not only systematically violated the military and financial terms of the Versailles Treaty, but immediately imposed a nationwide boycott of Jewish shops, doctors and lawyers. The descent towards the annihilation of European Jewry had begun.

Article 80 of the Versailles Treaty stated ‘Germany acknowledges and will respect strictly the independence of Austria within the frontiers which may be fixed in a treaty between that State and the Principal Allied and Associated Powers …’. This did not prevent Hitler agitating in Austria, the country of his birth, and his next step was to unite the two ‘German’ speaking countries.

The German invasion of Austria on 12 March 1938 was Hitler’s first act of open aggression against an independent sovereign nation. After the Anschluss, the anti-semitic policies that had already been implemented in Germany were immediately introduced in Austria. Jews were expelled from all cultural, economic and social life; they were hounded on the streets, their property was confiscated and many were summarily imprisoned. Faced with an intolerable situation at home, those who had connections or independent means sought refuge abroad little knowing that most would never again see the relatives and friends they left behind.

Approximately one third of Austria’s Jewish population perished in the Holocaust. Those who managed to get out on time [were] ‘spread out in every direction of the wind’*. They took with them the culture and ideas of the country of their birth; they re-established their lives and careers and many made significant contributions to their adopted homelands. Their children and grandchildren have been absorbed into the dominant culture and now only recognise their Austrian heritage through the Apfelstrudel and Marillen Knödel.

Today many historians agree that if the Allies had halted the advance of the Third Reich when it flagrantly violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles on 13 March 1938, Hitler’s subsequent invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland may not have taken place, and the 2nd World War with its dire consequences may have been avoided. That is the sad legacy of the Anschluss. © 2018 Eva de Jong-Duldig

* Karl Duldig, Internment Camp 3D, Tatura 1941

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Dunera researcher Carol Bunyan is often asked who was the youngest Dunera internee. The youngest internee at Hay was Gerhard Leopold Besch born on 24 June 1924, and the youngest at Tatura was Berthold Halpern who was born on 18 June 1923.

However there were also a number of 16-year-old Dunera Boys at Tatura who were born in 1923 and 1924. One of them was Jimmy King, born in Vienna on 30 May 1923, originally named Leopold Kohn.

We had cause to remember Jimmy recently when his son Anthony kindly donated photos to the Dunera Museum in Hay of the 8th Australian Employment Company at Tocumwal 1943–1944.

In the early 1950s, Jimmy started his own import business and introduced the Texta coloured pens to Australia, a great novelty at the time. The business grew and later became part of Heine Brothers. Later, he established James King Enterprises which he ran until he retired, supplying the education department and many other large institutions with stationery items.

In 1968, Jimmy, with Henry Felder and Willy Kaufmann, arranged the very first Dunera reunion in Melbourne. It was a huge success attended by about 200 people

Jimmy King30 May 1923 – 6 December 2009

© June Orford

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including Dunera veterans and families, as well as some of the 8th Employment Company comrades. This event became the forerunner of the Melbourne reunions which have taken place at various venues over the years. Jimmy continued to be the key organiser for the Dunera Melbourne luncheons until 2006.

Jimmy was also pivotal in establishing a benevolent fund, created from donations, to support Dunera members in need, and for institutions such as Jewish Care. Jimmy was honoured by Jewish Care in November 2009 for his 40 years of support to them. Sadly, Jimmy passed away a month later.His son Anthony remembers him this way:His biggest claim to fame in Australia was the introduction of the Texta whilst working for Heine Brothers. I have to say it really makes me proud when someone at work asks for a Texta, or a Sharpie as it is now. He provided our family with a wonderful life and was truly a gentle man.

Tony Levy from Jewish Care presents Jimmy King with the Certificate of Appreciation for his ongoing support.

Photos from Jimmy King’s collection. Tocumwal 1943–1944. Donated by Anthony King.

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Photos from Jimmy King’s collection. Tocumwal 1943–1944. Donated by Anthony King.

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Members of the Dunera community were saddened to hear of the recent death of Helga Levy. Helga was married to Dunera Boy Fred Levy until his death in 1968 and later was the devoted partner of Mike Sondheim, former president of the Dunera Association.

Helga grew up in Breslau, Germany, in a comfortable family environment where she received a good education. Helga was adventurous and in 1939, at the age of 19, she left for Australia. Her mother and brother perished in the Holocaust.

Helga met Fred Levy in 1944 and enjoyed a close family life with him and their sons Frank and Peter.

In her years with Mike Sondheim, Helga was a stalwart supporter of all things Dunera – entertaining overseas visitors, going to reunions, packing newsletters and making everyone in the Dunera family feel welcome.

After Mike’s passing, Helga spent her final years in Regis aged-care. Helga is remembered by all who knew her as a person who was optimistic, generous, and fiercely independent. She was passionate about life and wonderful to her family.

She will be sadly missed.

Helga Levy19 Sept 1919 – 2 June 2018

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Dear Rebecca

I thought it time I made contact with you to say “thank you” for giving me contacts to help with the talk I was to give at U3A about “The Dunera Boys”, which was an outstanding success.

The talk was received with great interest and enthusiasm. It surprised me to learn that a few people had not even heard of “The Dunera Boys”, while a couple of others had known the Canberra men personally and one (Bern Brent) was a close neighbour. In fact one lady kindly loaned me his book My Berlin Suitcase which Bern had given her as a gift. My audience was particularly interested in the many ex-internees who settled in Canberra and certainly made their mark here, especially in the academic world and also their contributions to local society generally. I have also shared their story with members of the general public so feel I have done my little bit to help make known the story of these remarkable men.

During my talk to U3A members I suggested that they call at Hay and visit the Museum and places of interest in general, and quite a few were determined to do so. I must say I really enjoyed my nostalgic return visit to Hay, where David Houston was very generous in sharing his time and knowledge with us. As well I found some

interesting material at the Library. I also received some valuable information from Carol Bunyan who I hope to meet in Canberra at the book launch of Dunera Lives at the National Library in July.

It has been of great interest and fascination for me to research these remarkable “Boys”, as well as finding online and reading many of the issues of the Dunera News, with which I realise you have been actively involved. Well done Rebecca.

I find it sad that so few of the original “Dunera Boys” are still with us, but how wonderful that so many of their families remain interested, which will keep these amazing and important stories alive.

With kindest regards and grateful thanks

Pauline Snow

U3A Canberra

The Dunera BoysLetter from Pauline Snow – 25 May 2018

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Just to say that Dunera Day (the 10th of July) is coming (in 4 days), but since I will not be near my computer, I will say it now: There are, to my knowledge, three Dunera Boys in these United States; Ali Volk (in a nursing home, not far from where I live); Vernon Dwelly, near San Francisco, with whom I spoke recently and who is, as ever, full of life; and yours truly, past 98 but still going strong. (If there are others still living in the USA, please let me know their names and addresses).

I still say that the Dunera was an important happening in our lives, not to be forgotten. A little point of interest cropped up. Anyone ever heard of Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz? He was a Dunera Boy. I remember him to have lived in the Stadlen Hut (No.34) in Hay – a quiet man who “never made many waves”.

Well, he wrote a book, Der Reisende, which he wrote and published in England in 1939. The English version was called The Man who took Trains. Whether it is autobiographical or not I do not know. Probably, yes.

It has been around for a while, but I suspect no one ever heard of it. Now it has been published in German. (I found out about it through an Austrian literary magazine.) Sorry to say, you will find Boschwitz’s name on the “Drowned” list of the second sunk return-to-England internee ship (what was it called?)

On this note I conclude, with many good wishes to the remaining Dunera Boys, and their kin.George Lederer

Information from Carol Bunyan – Dunera researcherUlrich Alexander Boschwitz was born in Berlin on 19 April 1915. His father was a Jewish merchant who died in 1915, fighting in WWI. His mother was Protestant. Together with his mother he arrived in England in 1939. Both were interned on the Isle of Man. In 1940, he was deported on the Dunera.

Boschwitz’s name appears on Rev Alcorn’s list for Camp 7, Hut 36. Boschwitz made no mention of his Jewish descent. He gave his occupation as author, using the pseudonym of John Grane. His first book, Människor utanför, was published in 1937, Der Reisende (The Traveller), was published in 1939. It was published in England as The Man who took Trains, in the US as The Fugitive. Der Reisende has been recently rediscovered, re-edited, and republished in Germany in early 2018.

On his release in 1942, Boschwitz departed Australia on the Abosso. However, the ship was torpedoed enroute to Europe. He had with him the manuscript of his next book, Traumtage. Neither he nor the manuscript survived. Boschwitz was 27.

Ulrich Alexander BoschwitzLetter from George Lederer – June 2018

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Dunera Association Hay Reunion31 August–2 September 2018

In recognition of the 78th Anniversary of the arrival of the Dunera Boys at the Hay Internment and POW Camps 7 and 8 in 1940.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Friday 31 August

5–6pm Hay Shire Library – 204 Lachlan Street Dunera Boys story through Etchings from World War II – by Alex Byrne.

Meet Alex Byrne, former NSW State Librarian. Refreshments provided.From 6pm Dinner at JJ Bistro, Riverina Hotel. PAYG – Pay As You Go

Saturday 1 September

9am HAY RAILWAY STATION for 9.30am Symbolic re-enactment. Siren and sounds of four steam trains, 48 carriages,

arriving at Hay Railway Station. Museum displays will be open from 9am. 9.45am SYMBOLIC MARCH March from railway carriage to Dunera Place to March of the Hebrew Slaves

from Verdi opera, Nabucco.10am DEPART HAY RAILWAY STATION Follow “Dunera Way” from the station to Camps 7 and 8 by car convoy.

Tour of Camps 7 and 8, Racecourse/Showground, Garrison areas. Stop at Dunera Commemorative Obelisk in Dunera Way. The obelisk was unveiled at the 50th anniversay in 1990.

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11am MORNING TEA PAYG Havachat Coffee Shop, 120 Lachlan Street. Opposite the Post Office

Or at Cottonwool Crema Cafe, 14 Lachlan Street. Or at The Convent Cafe, 160 Pine Street.

11.45am HAY WAR CEMETERY – Guided tour by David Houston Visit Hay General Cemetery and see the grave of Menasche Bodner, the

only Dunera Boy who died in Hay, now buried in the Jewish section at the Cemetery. Stop at riverside beach where Jewish boy Theodore Tartakover (b. Hay 1880) first trained for swimming. He competed at the London (1908) and Stockholm (1912) Olympics.

1pm LUNCH PAYG Options as per morning tea, or Hay Services Club.

Dining Room, 371 Murray Street. A la carte menu.2.30pm OPTIONS – Free time to wander Hay or rest

Dunera Museum Library • Film showing: When Friends were Enemies – Judy Menczel’s 1991 Dunera story for SBS. Duration: 58 mins. Hay Gaol Museum • Site of the first military hospital where sick Dunera Boys were sent until the camp hospital was completed. Shear Outback Museum • A history of Australian shearing on display. Shearing demonstration at 3.30pm.

6.30pm DINNER – Please contact David Houston to register for dinner PAYG Bishop’s Lodge Motel Restaurant, Sturt Hwy, Hay. A la carte menu.

Sunday 2 September

8.30am Visit Rhonda’s riverside country homestead, Camp Farm.9.30am MORNING TEA FREE Hosted by David and Coleen Houston at Bishop’s Lodge Historic House and

Garden. Corner of Roset Street and Sturt Hwy, Hay.

EVENTS REGISTRATION Please register before 24 August 2018

Please advise David Houston by email (preferred), fax or phone, of the number and names of people attending the events. It is essential we know numbers for catering and seating. Advance payment is NOT required.

Contact David Houston: davidhouston23@bigpond.com

Phone (02) 6993 2161 Fax (02) 6993 2171 Mob 0428 932 161

For information about visiting Hay:

www.hay.nsw.gov.au

haytouristcentre@bigpond.com Phone (02) 6993 4045

Dunera Association Committee 2017–18

Peter Felder – President (Melbourne)peter@felder.com.au

Ron Reichwald – Secretary (Melbourne)duneraboys@gmail.com

Geoff Winter – Treasurer (Canberra)

wintergj1948@hotmail.com

Rebecca Silk – Immediate

Past President (Melbourne)rebeccasilk@bigpond.com

Committee membersSelma Seknow (Melbourne) selma@enqyr.com.au

Jack Strom (Melbourne) js@showbiz.net.au

Nicholas Gruen (Melbourne) ngruen@gmail.com

Janet Arndt (Melbourne – Singapore Group) tonyjazzman@gmail.com

Michelle Frenkel (Shepparton – Victoria) michelle_frenkel@yahoo.com

Carol Bunyan (Canberra) lcb5@bigpond.com

John Ebert (Sydney) Lppac1@hotmail.com

Anton Stampfl (Sydney) anton.stampfl@gmail.com

All correspondence to:The Secretary – Dunera AssociationPO Box 72 South Melbourne Delivery Centre VIC 3205

Email: duneraboys@gmail.com

SAVE THE DATES 2018

Dunera Hay Reunion – 31 Aug–2 September

Dunera Sydney Reunion – 5 September

Melbourne Lunch Reunion – 13 November

Dunera Museum at HayCarol Bunyan – Volunteer Researcher lcb5@bigpond.com

Dunera Hay toursDavid Houston – davidhouston23@bigpond.com

Ernest (Bruno) Seemann30 August 1921, Vienna – 2017, Great BritainErnest established and founded Electro Motion UK (Export) in 1948. He resigned as director of the company just prior to his passing. He spent his last years in Old Dalby near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

IN MEMORY