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2 unusual facts about Tatura


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The crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran were also interned following the battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran.

Yasukichi Murakami

With the onset of World War II and as a Japanese born Australian resident he was interned at the Tatura internment camp in Victoria.


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History of the Jews in Australia

Printmaker and projection artist Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack graduate and professor of the Bauhaus was deported to Australia as an "enemy alien" on the ship HMT Dunera, spending time in internment camps in Hay, Orange and Tatura, before being sponsored for Australian citizenship by (Sir) James Darling, headmaster of Geelong Church of England Grammar School.


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