Excerpts from a Migrant’s Memoirs

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 26, 3 (2023)

Author(s) Tom Beer AbstractThese excerpts from the enthralling memoirs of Australian scientist Dr Tom Beer, born in Budapest in 1947, begin in 1948 with his parents’ escape, with him, from that newly Soviet-controlled city to Vienna, from the American zone of which they in 1951 travelled to Genoa, where they embarked on the voyage that brought them, via Port Said and Colombo, to Australia. In the excerpts we also glimpse details of his childhood, schooling and involvement in the scouting movement in Sydney, where his father opened a menswear store, and of the emigration to Sydney of his paternal aunt and uncle following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and later of his maternal grandmother, who had been living in Teheran
Year2023
Pages318-340
Keyword(s)Biography;Holocaust survivors in Australia;Hungarian Jews in Australia;Jewish scientists in Australia