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Vera
- My Story
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera’s survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest humour, she recalls a world where the desire to survive was everything.
After the war, Vera studied journalism at Warsaw University, throwing herself into the bohemian scene. In 1958, she migrated to Australia with her husband and young son to escape rising anti-Semitism. Here she would carve out an adventurous career as an ABC TV researcher and producer on pioneering programs such as This Day Tonight.
It was a wild time for politics and the media, and Vera was at the centre of it all, mixing with the Hawkes in the 1980s and forming a close friendship with artist Mirka Mora.
In Vera, acclaimed biographer Robert Hillman has captured the fierce and passionate life of an amazing Australian. Robert Hillman’s memoir, The Boy in the Green Suit, won the Australian National Biography Award for 2004.
His 2007 biography, My Life as a Traitor, written with Zarah Ghahramani, appeared in numerous overseas editions. His first collaboration with Najaf Mazari, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, has been a set text in many schools. He is also the author of Gurrumul: His Life and Music and the novel Joyful.
Critic Reviews
"Vera’s life is part tragedy, part farce but like the roast goose that she cooks so magnificently it is always succulent, rich and unforgettable." (Barrie Kosky)
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- Mary-louise Tehan
- 23-07-2024
So much life
A terrifying insight into the horrors of life as a Jewish person / child in Eastern Europe/ Poland in the 30s and 40s and how this remained with her throughout her life manifesting as the living of her life so fully and authentically not wasting a minute of it. A great biography
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