Voucher - 2 Shillings Hay Camp 7; Confinement Voucher

Hay Camp 7 was one of three adjacent internment camps established in the remote New South Wales outback in 1941, holding predominantly German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had been transported from Britain aboard the HMT Dunera — men interned first as enemy aliens despite many having fled Nazi persecution. The camp's internal scrip system was a practical necessity: internees were paid token wages for camp labor but could not legally hold Australian currency.

George Teltscher, himself a Dunera internee and trained graphic artist, designed the camp vouchers. That the printing was done within the camp itself, by the men it confined, is the detail that makes this piece genuinely unusual.