MS Acc12.103, 1983-2012

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Content Summary:

This consignment comprises material largely relating to Brent's wartime experiences as a child deportee on the "Dunera" and his experiences as an internee in Australia. Included are poems, copies of newspaper articles, issues of the "Dunera news" and other newsletters, correspondence, pamphlets and memoirs (some in German). A number of papers contain annotations by Brent. The papers also include correspondence between Brent and the National Library, copies of a presentation titled ''The Dunera letters" by Penny Grist and a booklet of print labels from the "The Dunera boys: seventy years on" exhibition, held at the National Library in 2010 (1 packet).

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Defence
Education
History
Society and culture

Names:

Brent, Bern Gerald

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