Dear Mutzi / Tess Scholfield-Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholfield-Peters, Tess, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peters, Harry, 1920-2021.

Peters, Harry.

Immigrants--Australia--Biography.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Australia--History.

Berlin (Germany).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : National Library Australia Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

"Harry Peters formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry's parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. Harry's experience also tells the history of refugee farmers in rural Australia and migrant labour companies during WWII. Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather's story with three intertwining threads: a sketched-out history based on Harry's testimony and documentary history; her engagement with this personal history from a third-generation perspective; and the present story of Harry's growing infirmities and eventual death in early 2021 at age 100. Through the hybrid narrative non-fiction form, Scholfield-Peters investigates her family history and seeks to share an ethical historical account of Harry's life. This work necessarily skirts the edges of fiction and non-fiction, as Scholfield-Peters weaves her deep research with Harry's recollections and imagines the unknown details."--Booksellers website.

Notes:

"A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten"--Front cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237).

ISBN:

9781922507518

1922507512

OCLC:

1432660481