New on dunera.de 21 February 2025

The name Harry Jeidels or Harry Jay, born on February 22, 1905, is a name that many descendants of Dunera Boys are sure to have come across when looking through old photos: The Dehn family noticed his stamp on the back of a number of photographs. That was reason enough to do some research. In addition to the photos known to us from the time of the 8th Australian Employment Company, we also found an extensive body of work as a theater photographer in Melbourne over several decades. It also turned out that Harry, as a lecturer and headmaster of the camp university in Tatura, not only passed on his knowledge of photography.

In old age, he intensively cultivated his tape recording hobby and became internationally known for his sound recordings from the Australian bush. As the inventor and editor of a unique audio magazine (which at the time came to listeners on analog cassettes and by post), Harry Jay could perhaps even be called a forefather of today’s podcasts …

Dunera Boy Harry Jeidels (Jay), born in Berlin, became known in Australia as a theater photographer and audio documentarian.

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A new historical article, the third in our series of articles on the Arandora Star, deals with the more than 700 Italians who were to be taken to Canada on board the second internment transport. 256 of them survived the sinking of the ship by a German submarine. A few days later, 200 of them were deported to Australia on the Dunera.

The article summarizes the background to the internment and deportation of Italians by the British government. It is noteworthy that – in contrast to the German and Austrian internees – almost all of them were “residents”: they had been living in England for some time, some were second generation and many were British citizens. We would like to thank Alfonso Pacitti for his permission to publish the lists of names he compiled of the Italian survivors and victims of the Arandora Star on dunera.de.