Papers of Bern Brent, 1895-2019

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Title: Papers of Bern Brent, 1895-2019
Subject: Internment camps--Australia; World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation; World War, 1939-1945--Deportations; War stories; German language--Writing
Category: 4. World War II; 5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author: Brent, Bern
Keywords: Dunera; Tatura camp; Hay
Current holder: National Library of Australia
Period of reference: 1895 – 2019
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1195094244
Item number: 941719
Access rights: Request at location
Country of origin: Germany; Australia
Place: Hay camp; Tatura
Language: German; English
Description from source: 5.37 m. (25 boxes) + 1 folio item + 6 folders + 3 packets.
The papers of MS 8869 are divided into two parts:
1. Papers of Bern Brent's parents, Helene and Otto Bernstein, include early family papers; poems by Otto Bernstein; papers relating to childhood; imprisonment in Siberia and escape, World War I; Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, World War II.
2. Papers of Bern Brent include family correspondence 1920s-1960s (some of which is in German), particularly during World War II when family members were separated in Australia, United Kingdom, Germany and the United States; papers relating to the voyage on the "Dunera", 1940; papers relating to the Hay and Tatura Internment Camps, Australia, including poems, diary, sketches, correspondence, publications; teaching materials and research documenting the direct method of teaching English to migrants in Australia, and teaching methods in Europe and Southeast Asia; publications by Brent including articles, book reviews and his book My Berlin suitcase: memories of a childhood (9 boxes, 1 fol. item).
Physical format: Correspondence; Diaries; Newspapers; Passports; Photographs; Video recording; Objects (miscellaneous)
Abstract: Internee, soldier and educator (Born Gerd Hermann Bernstein, Zagreb 1922)
Related resources: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/XSPD7EE7/; https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/H3S2EWS7/