Papers of World War I internees

A selection with transcriptions

Papers of World War I internees

During the First World War nearly 7000 ‘enemy aliens’, mainly of German and Austro-Hungarian origin, were interned in camps in Australia.

These are a selection from our collection of diaries written by camp internees. 

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Internee collections: diaries of ‘enemy aliens’

by Anna Corkhill

During the First World War nearly 7000 ‘enemy aliens’, mainly of German and Austro-Hungarian origin, were interned in camps in Australia. The Library’s collection of papers of ‘enemy aliens’ interned in Australia during WW1 contains around 40 handwritten diaries written by internees.

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UNESCO SIX

Saturday 6 October 2018 to Sunday 5 May 2019
Free
Exhibition

Our UNESCO World Heritage collections displayed together for the very first time.

Blocks of coloured black and white histrorical photograph