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Diary - 19 Wasted Months: Diary and Notes of My Internment, Kurt Lewinski, 1940-1950s

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Date	1940-05-10 to 1943-01-28
Place	Hay camp Tatura
Subject	World War, 1939-1945--Sources Voyages and travels Internment camps--Australia Prisoners of war War diaries German diaries German language--Writing
Category	4. World War II
Author	Lewinski, Kurt
Keywords	Enemy aliens Dunera Tatura camp
Current holder	Jewish Museum of Australia
Link	http://imu.jewishmuseum.com.au/collections/#details=ecatalogue.6596
Item number	3093.4.1
Access rights	Digitised
Country of origin	England Australia
Language	German
Description from source	Handwritten in ink on the cover page, in German: "19 Wasted Months / Diary and Notes of My Internment / Kurt Lewinski." Approximately 77 pages of German text detailing Lewinski's experience. This diary was kept by Kurt Lewinski over the course of nineteen months. It was written while Lewinski was imprisoned in England, detained on board the Dunera and interned at Hay and Tatura. An additional, translated copy is also held in the Jewish Museum's collection
Physical format	Diaries Manuscripts