Reluctant Refuge: Unaccompanied Refugee and Evacuee Children in Australia 1933-1945

The story of children who were refugees or evacuees from war-torn Europe. They included British children sent to Australia to escape bombing raids over England and Jewish and other non-Aryan children sent from Germany, Austria and Poland to escape persecution from the Third Reich. This book examines the childrens’ backgrounds, the care they received, their adjustment to Australian life and the additional wrench of repatriation. Includes lists of German and Austrian boys arriving in Melbourne on Jervis Bay in 1939; boys from Poland on the Oronsay 1939; refugees from Gross-Breesen Farm Germany in Sydney on Strathallan 1939; German-Jewish children to Melbourne on the Orama 1939; non-Aryan Christian children to Sydney on the Orama 1939; British Children in 1940 on the Batory; Nestor and Diomed.