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Voices of the Dunera
Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment
Seumas Spark, Kate Garrett and Andrew McNamara
130 pages, 9 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-443-9 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2026)
eISBN 978-1-83695-444-6 eBook Not Yet Published
Description
Ernst Kitzinger was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century, and a refugee incarcerated in Hay, New South Wales during WWII. As a German Jew he had sought refuge in Britain in 1935, but in 1940 was one of 2,500 men arrested as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Kitzinger rallied his fellow internees to communicate their peculiar circumstances. In powerful and often deeply moving prose and poetry, they mused on their lot and the misfortunes of refugees. Never before published, their words remain strikingly relevant today.
Seumas Spark is an Adjunct Fellow in History, Monash University. He has published widely on the Dunera internees.
Andrew McNamara is an art historian. Recent works include Undesign (2018); Surpassing Modernity (2018/19); Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (2019) and the exhibition Bauhaus Now (2020-2021). He is Emeritus Professor at QUT.
Kate Garrett is a German to English translator, who works with a range of commercial and private clients. She has a particular interest in the translation of documents and poetry from the Second World War. Her translations have appeared in Dunera Lives: A Visual History (2018) and Shadowline: The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok (2022).


