Papers of Bern Brent, 1895-2019
Abstract
Internee, soldier and educator (Born Gerd Hermann Bernstein, Zagreb 1922)
| Place |
Hay camp Tatura |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Author |
Brent, Bern |
| Keywords |
Dunera Tatura camp Hay |
| Current holder | |
| Item number |
941719 |
| Access rights |
Request at location |
| Country of origin | |
| Language | |
| Period of reference |
1895 to 2019 |
| 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) |
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