Concentration camp |
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| Title : | Concentration camp |
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| Creator : | Dubotzky, Paul, photographer | ||
| Source : | B 12161 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1914 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 155 x 255 | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Concentration camp at Torrens Island. Over 300 'enemy aliens' were interned at the Torrens Island Concentration Camp, in the harbour of Port Adelaide, South Australia, during the First World War. Internees were mainly of German or Austro-Hungarian background. |
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| Related names : | Torrens Island Internment Camp (S. Aust.) |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Place : | Torrens Island |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Fischer, Gerhard. Enemy aliens: internment and the homefront experience in Australia, 1914-1920, St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1989 Chpt. 10: State camps The German experience of Australia 1833-1938 / Ian Harmstorf (editor), Peter Schwerdtfeger (technical editor). [Bedford Park, S. Aust.] : The Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, The Flinders University of South Australia, 1988 Holmes, Elisa. 'The attitudes towards South Australians of German descent during World War I', Cabbages and kings: selected essays in history and Australian studies, vol. 22 (1993), pp. 3-17 Index to aliens 1914-1918 [microform] / compiled by Helen D. Harris. Forest Hill, Vic.: Harriland Press, 2003] Paech, David O. Persecution, detention and internment of Lutherans (in South Australia) in two world wars : a dark spot in Australia's century of federation, [Klemzig, S. Aust. : David O. Paech], 2001 |
| Internet links : | German history in South Australia [German Club, SA] Manning Index of South Australian history: World War One: Germans in Australia South Australians at war: Prisoners of war Wartime internment camps in Australia [National Archives of Australia] |
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