• Title
  Letter from an internee of Holsworthy Internment Camp to his sister in Europe, 1917
• Call number
  MLMSS 9434
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1917
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1094433
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The internment camp for enemy aliens at Holsworthy, near Liverpool was the largest in Australia during World War One. This military base functioned as a an internment camp between February 1915 and 1920, housing almost 7000 men, most of whom were citizens of Germany or the various states of the Austro-Hungarian empire who were domiciled or working in Australia at the outbreak of war. Holsworthy was in every sense of the word a prison, with the internees' freedoms strictly curtailed.
  
  Reference:
  Douglas Stewart Fine Books brochure
• Scope and Content
  Letter from an internee, 'Hans' of Holsworthy Internment Camp to his sister in Europe. Written in German on printed letterhead 'Concentration Camps, Australia - Prisoner of War Letter' dated 'Liverpool, 4 Nov. 1917. The letter gives some insight into what life was like in internment camps.
• Language
  German
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright<br>
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1261091
• Subject
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Australian.
  World War, 1914-1918--Concentration camps--New South Wales--Holsworthy.
  Prisoners of war--Germany.
  Prisoners of war--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE468583

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