By Mutsumi Tsuda
Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University
During November 2023, I travelled from Adelaide to Barmera in a rented car for the first time in 14 years.
My first objective was to see the new exhibition about the Loveday Internment Camp (LIC) at the Barmera Visitor Centre, curated by my friend Rosemary Gower who has been promoting the historic site for many years. […]
by Doris Frank
Wilhelm, known as Bill, Sawatzky was born in August 1923 in Wilhelma, one of the Temple Society’s agricultural settlements in Palestine (now Israel).
He is one of very few who can claim to have been interned in five camps during WWII. […]
by Ann McLachlan
This series of photos from The Brewster Collection provides a relaxed informal side of the Loveday Internment Camp. […]
by Ann McLachlan
Children interacted with many of those who were at the Loveday Internment Camp be they prisoners of war, guards, locals and more.
Their memories were recorded in local newspapers and oral histories. […]