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In 1947 the town of Darwin welcomed a ship carrying refugees from China: mainly Jewish refugees who had fled Europe to find a haven in Shanghai. At the end of World War II they joined the thousands of immigrants entering Australia. These Europeans did not stay in Darwin and many eventually settled in Melbourne. In time they were followed by other Russian refugees from Bolshevism and the Iraqis, who were Shanghai's former merchant princes. Antonia Finnane traces the extraordinary lives and experiences of some of these Shanghai immigrants, remembered and related as oral history by the people themselves.
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Johan Bernat
reviewed Far from Where?: Jewish Journeys from Shanghai to Australia on December 24, 2010
Far from Where?: Jewish Journeys from Shanghai to Australia
This is a truly excellent memoir. It is a unique account of WW11 told from the viewpoint of a French art historian whose acts of bravery and resistance eventually get her arrested. Despite deportation to Germany and two years in a slave labor camp, Humbert maintains her humanity, her sense of purpose, not to mention her sense of humor. After liberation Agnes is put in charge of the local German population (her organizing abilities and her personal strength are immediately apparent to the allies). She points a toy gun at the the German civilians and threatens them with it when they are reluctant to follow her orders. Then, she goes off giggling with her friend.
There are literary, artistic and intellectual allusions throughout the book. Some of them I had to look up. My GR friend Wendy wrote that this is a woman she would have loved to meet. I couldn't agree more.
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