Bonegilla migrant centre - Wall panel 1954 - 1956

Item

Title
Bonegilla migrant centre - Wall panel 1954 - 1956
Subject
Immigrants
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Art
Greek language, Modern
Italian language
Camps
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords
1950s
Greeks in Australia
Bonegilla camp
Current holder
Albury Library Museum
Period of reference 
1954 – 1956
Link
https://alburylibrarymuseum.zetcom.net/en/explore/item/24815/
Item number
ARM 15.941
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Australia
Place
Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Language 
Greek (Modern)
Italian
Description from source
Description
A section of wall panelling from Bonegilla migrant centre with a pencil drawing or graffiti of two soldiers shooting at each other across barbed wire with trees either side and birds flying above. the image has Greek text beneath is and is surrounded by a penciled multi-pointed frame. The Greek text refers to a battle at Pindus pass, in a mountain range in northern Greece. A small drawn head is in the top left of the panel and Italian text in a box down the left side. The wall was painted off white with holes and sections broken out.

Inscription
Translation of Greek inscription by George Veneris, via Bruce Pennay: Athanasios [Greek Christian name] / 1954 / The Battle of Pindus [mountain range in northern Greece] / Where fire and steel spread death and catastrophe / LONG LIVE GREECE / written by George Sofianu SAMOS [Greek island] / and Leotohithu Nicolakopoulu / Meropi Messinia [village in the Peloponnese region of Greece] / Bonegilla 24-1-56

Dimensions
840 x 990
Physical format
Objects (miscellaneous)
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4555/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/2883/