Internees and POWs Hay, New South Wales

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hay gaol today museum displays detailing varied history prison, pow camp , girls institution.


during world war ii hay location of internment , prisoner of war camps, due in no small measure isolated location. 3 high-security camps constructed there in 1940. first arrivals on 2 thousand refugees nazi germany , austria, many of them jewish, aged between 16 , 60. had been rounded in britain when fears of invasion @ peak, , transported australia aboard hmt dunera. arrived @ hay on 7 september 1940 in 4 trains sydney , interned in camps 7 , 8 (located near hay showground) under guard of 16th garrison battalion of australian army.


later known dunera boys , internment @ hay of assemblage of refugees nazi oppression in europe important milestone in australia s cultural history. 800 of interned @ hay chose remain in australia. influence of group of men on subsequent cultural, scientific , business developments in australia difficult over-state; many became integral , celebrated part of nation’s cultural , intellectual life. dunera boys still fondly remembered in hay. every year town holds dunera day in many surviving internees return site of former imprisonment.


in november 1940 other compound @ hay, camp 6 (near hay hospital), occupied italian civilian internees. camps 7 , 8 vacated in may 1941 when dunera internees left hay; sent orange (nsw), others tatura in victoria, , others join pioneer corps of australian army. upon departure italian prisoners-of-war placed in camps 7 , 8. in december 1941 japanese internees (some broome , islands north of australia) conveyed hay , placed in camp 6. in april 1942 river farm began operating on eastern edge of town, enabling market-gardening , other farm activities carried out italian internees , pows. in august 1944, in wake of cowra pow break-out on 5 august 1944, 600 japanese pows transferred hay , placed in 2 high-security compounds 7 , 8. on 1 march 1946 last of japanese pows left hay. during 1946 italians remained there progressively released or transferred other camps, , hay camps dismantled, , building materials , fittings sold off, june following year.








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