Collection 08: Erhard Gohl - typescript titled `The Transportation of Members of the Temple Society to Australia for Internment', 1991

MLMSS 7225

sub-fonds

1991

404812

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (typescript)

From the 1860s, German families, predominantly from Baden Wuerttemberg, migrated to the Holy Land (Palestine, now part of Israel). At variance with the dominant Evangelical-Lutheran Church, the Templers, as they began to refer to themselves, migrated for religious reasons.
In 1923 Palestine became a British Mandate. Following the declaration of World War II in 1939, the British Adminstration authorised the surrounding of the Temple Society's settlements with barbed wire, effectively creating internment camps. On 31 July 1941, the transportation of the Templers to Australia was begun.

1991; German version titled `Die Verschleppung von Mitgliedern der Tempellgesellschaft nach Australien zur Internierung'.

English, German

A collection of theatre programmes of the Deutsches Theater, from the internment camp at Tatura, Victoria, where many of the members of the Tempel Society were interned in Australia, is located at MLMSS 7217.