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Wednesday 31 October
1.15pm
FREE
“My Mother kept up her mothering during the time she wrote me letters. I was sort of hoping against hope that we would eventually be reunited in Palestine. Her last Red Cross Letter came as a shock: ‘Dear Hansi. Unfortunately tomorrow I leave. Lots of kisses”
John was born in 1924 in Aussig, Czechoslovakia. As storm clouds gathered over Europe, John’s family searched for escape routes to leave the country. John’s father and sister went to Palestine, and John was sent to the safety of a distant relative in Manchester, England.
John’s mother, committed to caring for her own frail mother, stayed behind. John’s last farewell with his mother took place at the Prague railway station in February 1939, when he was just about to turn 15. On 1 February 1943, she was sent in a transport to Auschwitz, where she was murdered at the age of 53.
John immigrated with his wife to Israel to join his father and sister in 1950, and moved to Australia ten years later in 1960.
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