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Towards the Future: A Memoir
In this memoir, Guta Kopel recounts her life from the day of her Liberation, three weeks before the end of World War Two. She was finally free, after six years of deprivation and loss. Guta was 15 years old and all alone.
It is 1945 and Europe is in chaos with vast population movements and survivors of a ruthless war searching for places to call home. Traumatised Holocaust survivors became displaced persons contemplating their future and trying to find a country that would accept the remnants of European Jewry.
After leaving Germany, Guta regained her youthful spirit among the friendly and hospitable Italian people of Florence. Although the life of a displaced person was difficult and transient she enjoyed living in Italy.
Four and half long years later, she, her cousin Inka and her husband and their two little girls were granted permission to emigrate to Australia, where Guta. Finally in the safety of Melbourne, Guta was able to embrace a normal life.
It is 1945 and Europe is in chaos with vast population movements and survivors of a ruthless war searching for places to call home. Traumatised Holocaust survivors became displaced persons contemplating their future and trying to find a country that would accept the remnants of European Jewry.
After leaving Germany, Guta regained her youthful spirit among the friendly and hospitable Italian people of Florence. Although the life of a displaced person was difficult and transient she enjoyed living in Italy.
Four and half long years later, she, her cousin Inka and her husband and their two little girls were granted permission to emigrate to Australia, where Guta. Finally in the safety of Melbourne, Guta was able to embrace a normal life.
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Published January 1, 2018
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