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WWII symposium success story

YEARS of planning came to fruition on the weekend via the successful staging of a Riverland event focused on a fascinating slice of local World War II history. Titled ‘German WWII Internees from Persia and their fate in Australia’, the event...

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WWII symposium success story
Speakers who shared their knowledge about WWII internees from Persia and their fate in Australia at a symposium at Barmera on Saturday, Riverland historian and chairperson of the Loveday Internment Camp committee Rosemary Gower (left), Flinders University professor Peter Monteath, Helga Griffin, 87, of Canberra, a former internee at Tatura in Victoria, John Wulff, of Sydney, the son of an internee who lived at Camp 10, Doris Frank and Ingrid Stephen, both of Melbourne whose fathers were internees at Loveday, and Western Sydney University’s Adjunct Professor and Curator of Persian Arts Dr Pedram Khosronejad. PHOTO: Berri Barmera Library
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