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Over the Ocean (Paperback)
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Over the Ocean (Paperback)
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List price R357
Loot Price R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
You Save R34 (10%)
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In July 1940, Erich Fischer found himself in Liverpool being herded
onto a British transport ship bound for Australia, along with 2,500
other men. Conditions on board were horrific, with men locked below
decks with overflowing latrines and only seawater to clean
themselves. Separated from family, friends and removed from any
semblance of a normal life, Erich is unsure whether he will ever
see wife and child again. Erica Fischer's Over the Ocean tells the
extraordinary story of her own parents and at the same time sheds
light on a little-known and little-discussed chapter in British
history. Fischer's parents met in Austria in the early 1930s. Her
mother, Irka, was a Polish Jew and her father, Erich, was a
Viennese lapsed Catholic. Faced with growing unrest in Europe, Irka
fled to the United Kingdom in 1938, her husband followed a year
later. However at the outbreak of war, Erich had been arrested as
an 'enemy alien', and having been interned was deported to the
opposite side of the world.Faced with unimaginable hardships, the
deportees banded together in solidarity to face their new life in
Australia and Erich was, against the odds, able to make contact
with Irka and their letters established a lifeline between
continents. Over the Ocean is an astonishing true tale dealing with
an unexposed and unexplored period in British history but also a
story of the resilience of love.
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