Henry Lippmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1921. He attended a technical school run by the Organisation for Rehabilitation and Training (ORT), where he specialised in electrical engineering. On the eve of World War II ORT evacuated 100 boys to Britain. He was among a group of 36 ORT boys with other Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression to be transported from Britain to Australia on the HMT Dunera. On arrival in Sydney in September 1940, Lippmann and his Dunera colleagues were interned as enemy aliens at Hay (N.S.W.) and Tatura (Vic.). He was released in Jan. 1942 and then enlisted in the 8th Australian Employment Company. Discharged in September 1946, he became a naturalised British subject three months later. Lippmann settled in Sydney and pursued a successful career in the fashion industry. In 1984 he was the founding editor of Dunera News, the official organ of the Hay-Tatura Association. In the following decade, he organised reunions of Dunera refugees. He was instrumental in the Association’s promotion in the wider community of the contributions of the ‘Dunera boys’ to Australian society. The exhibition, ‘The Dunera Experience’, was held at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne from 3 September to February 1991 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dunera’s arrival. In 1993 another exhibition, ‘The Dunera Boys: We’re Here Because We’re Here’, was mounted at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, followed a year later with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the same venue.