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Dunera anniversary 2024 in Sydney and Hay

Events to mark the 2024 anniversary in Sydney and Hay

The Dunera Association celebrates the 84th anniversary of the landing of the HMT Dunera with events in Sydney and Hay (NSW). The first event this year will be in Sydney, where the HMT Dunera docked at Jones Bay Wharf a short distance from the Harbour Bridge on 6 September 1940. The site of the wharf is now home to the Dunera Tribute Museum at Dolton House, the venue for the event on 1 September.

Dr Nicole Forsyth will present excerpts from the Piano Quartet in C major, composed by Dunera Boy Max-Peter Meyer in 1941 in the Tatura internment camp. This is part of a longer “Dunera Mass”, the performance accompanied by a narrator and featuring a choir and quartet of professional pianists. The “Dunera Mass” will be performed during the 2024 reunions in Hay and in April 2025 in Tatura. A further performance is planned for November 2024 to coincide with the new exhibition “Dunera: Stories of Internment” at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.

Meeting in Hay

On 7 September, the Dunera Association is hosting an event in Hay, where 2,000 refugees from Germany and Austria were interned for ten months. The meeting point there is the Dunera Museum at the former Hay railway station. This is followed by a symbolic march along the path that the arriving internees had to walk from the train to the camp, up to the memorial stone erected in 1990. This is followed by the music programme with pieces composed by the Dunera Boys. In the afternoon, you can visit the Hay Gaol Museum, which served as a hospital for internees in 1940, and the Shear Outback Museum. It is also possible to visit the Jewish section of Hay Cemetery. Menasche Bodner was buried there. He was the only Dunera Boy to die in the Hay camp. The day ends with a dinner together.

The Dunera moored where yachts are moored today on 6 September 1940.

The Dunera Museum in Hay is housed in the disused railway station. Photos: Dehn.

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