Your material is riveting. I was born in the UK in December 1941. My parents were born here but all my grandparents arrived here from Riga, Latvia and Dobrin, Poland. A close friend, in the 1970s, here, was a New Zealander, married to a Jewish South African, and she converted from Catholicism, and brought her family up as Jewish. However, on returning to New Zealand, when her mother was dying, her mother confessed that she was in fact, a Greek Jewess, who had managed to get to New Zealand, either during or just after the war, married a Catholic New Zealander and was too traumatized and terrified, after witnessing all the Nazi German sub-human atrocities in occupied Greece, to admitting she was, indeed, Jewish. My friend spent a good couple of years, here, in the UK, studying enough Judaic material to be admitted as a convert, so that all her children would be automatically accepted into the fold!!! I'm just trying to find enough background material (though have read brilliant Green fiction of that era) to compose an 'Pantoum', quartrain, iambic-pentameter, to round up my friend's experience, though she died, sadly at 50, in 1989. I am certain that many other people must have been similarly traumatized and have similar stories to relat.
Your material is riveting. I was born in the UK in December 1941. My parents were born here but all my grandparents arrived here from Riga, Latvia and Dobrin, Poland. A close friend, in the 1970s, here, was a New Zealander, married to a Jewish South African, and she converted from Catholicism, and brought her family up as Jewish. However, on returning to New Zealand, when her mother was dying, her mother confessed that she was in fact, a Greek Jewess, who had managed to get to New Zealand, either during or just after the war, married a Catholic New Zealander and was too traumatized and terrified, after witnessing all the Nazi German sub-human atrocities in occupied Greece, to admitting she was, indeed, Jewish. My friend spent a good couple of years, here, in the UK, studying enough Judaic material to be admitted as a convert, so that all her children would be automatically accepted into the fold!!! I'm just trying to find enough background material (though have read brilliant Green fiction of that era) to compose an 'Pantoum', quartrain, iambic-pentameter, to round up my friend's experience, though she died, sadly at 50, in 1989. I am certain that many other people must have been similarly traumatized and have similar stories to relat.