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Ernst Kitzinger was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century, and a refugee incarcerated in Hay, New South Wales during WWII. As a German Jew he had sought refuge in Britain in 1935, but in 1940 was one of 2,500 men arrested as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Kitzinger rallied his fellow internees to communicate their peculiar circumstances. In powerful and often deeply moving prose and poetry, they mused on their lot and the misfortunes of refugees. Never before published, their words remain strikingly relevant today.
Seumas Spark is an Adjunct Fellow in History, Monash University. He has published widely on the Dunera internees.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kate Garrett, Andrew McNamara and Seumas Spark
Chapter 1. Ernst Kitzinger, ‘Memorandum (on the Treatment of Internees)’, December 1940
Chapter 2. Ernst Kitzinger, ‘Christmas at Hay, 1940’
Chapter 3. Ernst Kitzinger, ‘Faust and Hamlet’, 1940 or 1941
Chapter 4. Ernst Kitzinger’s Collection of Dunera Essays Written at Camp 7, Hay, New South Wales
Chapter 5. Ernst Kitzinger, ‘On Board the Themistocles’, June 1941
Chapter 6. R.A.V. Herz, ‘Statement (Describing the Position of Refugees-Internees)’, 14 September 1941
Epilogue: After Dunera: Art, Fate and Responsibility
Kate Garrett, Andrew McNamara and Seumas Spark
Index