Vittorio Tolaini, Voyage of an Alien Dunera Internee

Item

Title: Vittorio Tolaini, Voyage of an Alien Dunera Internee
Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Australia; Voyages and travels; Internment camps; Internment camp inmates' writings; Immigrants--Australia--History; Italy--Emigration and immigration--History; Authors, Italian; Autobiography
Category: 4. World War II
Author: Tolaini, Vittorio
Creator: Lippmann, Henry
Current holder: State Library of New South Wales; Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Period of reference: 1940 – 1946
Link: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6m43LY; https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5b2b2c5621eaa40fc8f1069e
Series number: MLMSS 5896 box 2
Item number: nX6m43LY
Access rights: Request at location
Country of origin: Australia
Place: Tatura
Language: English; German; Hebrew
Description from source: Folder. Voyage of an alien. picture of the Dunera. by Vittorio Tolaini. printed on a gold coloured cardboard cover. Voyage of an alien. picture of the Dunera. by Vittorio Tolaini. printed on a gold coloured cardboard cover.

An interesting account of one of the 734 who joined the ill fated Arandora Star of which 486 perished and one of the 200+ survivors who subsequently came to Australian on the Dunera. The German survivors from the Arandora Star, 244 joined the B & G class 2288 Jewish Refugees, some 2732 souls. Graphically described in the first 20 pages and life in Australian prison camps until he returned to England in 1946.
Physical format: Manuscripts; Pictures; Photographs; Drawing; Posters; Typescripts
Bibliographic citation: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/INQ5U72D/
Date accessed: May 1, 2022