Dunera Boys
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The Dunera Boys were a group of mainly German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were unjustly interned and transported by ship to Australia during World War II, later becoming notable contributors to Australian cultural and intellectual life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dunera Boys canonical | 2 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II internees
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group of people ⓘ |
| actualStatus | refugees from Nazi persecution ⓘ |
| aftermath |
many later released and allowed to remain in Australia
ⓘ
some joined the Australian Army ⓘ |
| arrivalCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| arrivalPort | Sydney ⓘ |
| arrivalYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Australian military authorities
ⓘ
British government internment policy during World War II ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Dunera Museum
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surface form:
Hay Dunera Museum
annual Dunera reunions and commemorative events in Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfInternment | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| departureCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| departurePort | Liverpool ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| historicalAssessment | treatment later acknowledged as wrongful by British and Australian authorities ⓘ |
| internedAt |
Hay internment camps
ⓘ
surface form:
Hay internment camp
Orange internment camp ⓘ Tatura internment camp ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Australian academic life
ⓘ
contributions to Australian cultural life ⓘ contributions to Australian intellectual life ⓘ contributions to Australian scientific life ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| legacy |
subject of books and documentaries
ⓘ
symbol of injustice toward refugees during wartime ⓘ |
| majorityNationality |
Austrian
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| notableFor | high proportion of artists, musicians, scientists and scholars ⓘ |
| numberOfPeople | over 2,000 ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Australian immigration
ⓘ
history of internment in Australia ⓘ history of the Holocaust refugees ⓘ |
| reasonForInternment | classified as enemy aliens by British authorities ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
deportation from Britain to Australia in 1940
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internment in the United Kingdom during World War II ⓘ |
| timePeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| transportedBy | HMT Dunera ⓘ |
| victimOf |
mistreatment during transport on HMT Dunera
ⓘ
unjust internment ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Dunera Boys Description of subject: The Dunera Boys were a group of mainly German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were unjustly interned and transported by ship to Australia during World War II, later becoming notable contributors to Australian cultural and intellectual life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.