Hay Internment and POW camps
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Background
The Hay Internment and POW camps at Hay, New South Wales, Australia were established during World War II as prisoner-of-war and internment centres, due in part to the isolated location of the town. Three high-security camps were constructed in 1940. The first arrivals were 2,542 internees from Nazi Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish; they had been interned in the United Kingdom as enemy aliens when the possibility of an Axis invasion of Britain was at its highest. These internees were transported to Australia on board the British passenger ship HMT Dunera. The internees were kept in poor conditions on Dunera, which prompted a public outcry after news of their conditions became public.
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Facility profile
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Practical info
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Notable inmates
- Martin Löb1921–2006 · mathematician
Martin Hugo Löb (German: [løËp]; 31 March 1921 â 21 August 2006) was a German mathematician.
- Felix Behrend1911–1962 · mathematician
Felix Adalbert Behrend (23 April 1911 â 27 May 1962) was a German mathematician of Jewish descent who escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Australia.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
10%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5685808)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Hay Internment and POW camps. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hay-internment-and-pow-camps
"Hay Internment and POW camps." World Prisons. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hay-internment-and-pow-camps.
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