Diary - 19 Wasted Months: Diary and Notes of My Internment, Kurt Lewinski, 1940-1950s · Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia

Diary - 19 Wasted Months: Diary and Notes of My Internment, Kurt Lewinski, 1940-1950s

Title: Diary - 19 Wasted Months: Diary and Notes of My Internment, Kurt Lewinski, 1940-1950s
Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Sources; Voyages and travels; Internment camps--Australia; Prisoners of war; War diaries; German diaries; German language--Writing
Category: 4. World War II
Author: Lewinski, Kurt
Keywords: Enemy aliens; Dunera; Tatura camp
Current holder: Jewish Museum of Australia
Date: May 10, 1940
Link: http://imu.jewishmuseum.com.au/collections/#details=ecatalogue.6596
Item number: 3093.4.1
Access rights: Digitised
Country of origin: England; Australia
Place: Hay camp; Tatura
Language: German
Description from source: Handwritten in ink on the cover page, in German: "19 Wasted Months / Diary and Notes of My Internment / Kurt Lewinski." Approximately 77 pages of German text detailing Lewinski's experience.

This diary was kept by Kurt Lewinski over the course of nineteen months. It was written while Lewinski was imprisoned in England, detained on board the Dunera and interned at Hay and Tatura. An additional, translated copy is also held in the Jewish Museum's collection
Physical format: Diaries; Manuscripts