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Photograph Bonegilla migrant centre

Image

Title
Photograph Bonegilla migrant centre
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
German language
Camps
Photographs
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Place
Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Keywords
Bonegilla camp
Migrant camps
Current holder
Albury Library Museum
Date
1949
Link
https://alburylibrarymuseum.zetcom.net/en/explore/item/23815/
Item number
ARM 97.984
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Australia
Language
German
Description from source
Description
Black and white photograph of three men at a Bonegilla migrant centre hut. One man is standing in a doorway pointing at a sign in German "entry forbidden" while the other two men are standing outside.

Inscription
Handwritten on back: The man in the door was / a Hungarian count. / Next man was an Estonian. / third man was a Latvian / Singer; Harry Berger / 1949 Bonegilla

Dimensions
65 x 90