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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


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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 and writer, and Emeritus Professor at QUT. His work focuses largely on the modernist legacy for contemporary art and culture. He treats this legacy as contradictory or paradoxical rather than a purely negative or positive phenomenon. Key projects include: Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 (2006), Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia (2008), Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (2019), all with Ann Stephen and Philip Goad; Undesign (2018); An Apprehensive Aesthetic? The Legacy of Modernist Culture (2009); Surpassing Modernity (2018/19); and the exhibition Bauhaus Now (2020-2021).

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). 

Subject: Jewish StudiesHistory: World War IIGenocide HistoryRefugee and Migration Studies


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