New Dunera Newsletter published

After being renamed The Dunera and Queen Mary Association, the Australian organization’s newsletter has also been given a new name. The 120th issue has now been published as “Dunera & Queen Mary News”. The email newsletter was first published in September 1984.

The current issue first reports on the Melbourne event commemorating the 84th anniversary of the Dunera landing in the port city. All members of this group were Italians, many of them British citizens. All 200 had survived the sinking of the Arandora Star by a German submarine and were deported to Australia on the Dunera a few days later. Another contribution is dedicated to the Dunera Boy and Berlin senior cantor Boaz Bischofswerder. His works, which were performed in Melbourne in October 2024, include “Phantasia Judaica”, written on board the Dunera. Another article deals with the story of the Dunera Boy Heinz Werner Margulies (Margate), who was rescued from Germany on a Kindertransport and deported to Australia by the British.

Peter and Paul Dehn are grateful for taking over the biography of their father and grandfather from dunera.de, which was started in the current newsletter and will be continued in later issues.

The website of the association is also in the process of getting a new look.