DUNERA MUSEUM at Hay Railway Station - Hay
Address: Hay Railway Station platform
Hay, NSW 2711
DUNERA MUSEUM - The Hay Internment and Prisoner of War [POW] Camps Interpretive Centre was established in 1999 in carriages at the Hay Railway Station c1882. (NSW Heritage listed )
The station was the marshalling yard for over 6,000 German, Austrian, Australian, Italian and Japanese civilian internees and Italian and Japanese POW's. They were housed in turn in three camps of 1,000 inmates each between 1940 and 1946. They were guarded by 600 members of the 16th Australian Garrison Battalion.
The 'Dunera Boys', 1,984 German Austrian refugees, mostly Jewish, in Britain after escaping from the Nazi that occupied Europe, were the first internees of British WW2 policy. They arrived on the 7th of September 1940 at the Hay 'Concentration' Camps, hastily built, WW2 civilian internment camps in Australia, funded by the British government.
Their stories are told in the museum with collection exhibits, photographs, memorabilia and music.
Opening times
Open every day of year - 9am to 6pm. Open all public holidays 9am to 6pm
Contact
- Contact Information
- www.hay.nsw.gov.au/museums/...
- Hay Railway Station platform
Hay, NSW 2711 - Phone: (02) 6993 2161
- Fax: (02) 6993 2171
- dunera23@bigpond.com
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