The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
March 1944. Studio portrait of Lieselotte "Lotti" Frieda Saengar (nee Fischer) and her two children, Hannelore and Peter. Lotti Saengar was born in Kiel, Germany on 17 March 1920. Her mother died during childbirth and Lotti was raised by her father and stepmother. In 1940 Lotti met fitter and turner, Heinrich Saengar, who had been drafted to work in the shipyards at Kiel. They married on 30 August 1941.Their daughter, Hannelore, was born in January 1942. A few weeks later Henrich was drafted into the German army. He trained at Munster and was then sent to the Crimean Front where he worked repairing tanks and delivering them to the front. In July 1942 Henrich was sent to participate in the Greek campaign, serving at Salonika. In October he was granted leave and returned to Kiel to spend time with his young family. Nine months later his son, Peter, was born. After his leave, Heinrich served in North Africa, where he was captured on 17 April 1943 by British units, but was then handed over to the Americans. He was sent to America, where he was interned in Prisoner of War Camp Phillips in Kansas, then Prisoner of War Camp Warner near Salt Lake City, Utah and lastly to Prisoner of War Camp Cook in California, where he remained until April 1946. During his absence, Lotti raised their two children in war torn Germany. Kiel was a major naval base and was a target of British air raids. Heinrich returned to Germany in October 1946. In 1953 the family emigrated to Australia.
Handmade chess board and pieces with a canvas carry bag. The chess board is in the form of a wooden box with two hinges at the back to allow the lid to open 180 degrees to form a flat board. There are
Informal portrait of Heinrich Saenger, a German Prisoner of War at Camp Cooke, California. Born in Hessen, Germany, on 29 July 1915, Saenger was a fitter and turner by trade who was drafted to work in
Kiel, Germany. April 1942. Informal portrait of Lothar Scholz in his German Infantry uniform just after his enlistment in the Wehrmacht (German Army). He was sent to fight in Russia and was wounded th
Tatura, Australia. 10 March 1945. Class of German school children whose parents are interned at No. 3 Camp, Tatura Internment Group, photographed outside the school building in the Camp. Shown here ar
Outdoors informal portrait of Gilbert Graham (centre) and two other civilian prisoners of war (POW), Berlin, 1915. Gilbert Graham was a civilian POW held in the Ruhleben Civilian Prisoner of War Camp
Cross of Honour for the Great War 1914-1918 (Combatants). The medal is a cross with upwards facing crossed swords in the angles. On the obverse of the cross has the dates '1914 / 1918' in the middle a
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX1832 Private William Thomas Whalen, 2/1 Australian Ordnance Stores Company, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Con