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Writer was one of the last of the 'Dunera Boys'


Writer was one of the last of the ‘Dunera Boys’
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WALTER KAUFMANN: 1924 - 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, an enemy alien in wartime England, a communist in Robert Menzies’ Australia, an Australian in the German Democratic Republic, and somebody with a GDR identity in reunified Germany: throughout his life, the writer Walter Kaufmann, who died in Berlin on April 15, did not belong.
Kaufmann was born Sally Jizchak Schmeidler on January 19, 1924 in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel, a neighbourhood dominated by Jewish migrants from eastern Europe. His mother Rachela, originally from Poland, was among them. Aged 17 when Jizchak was born, she was working as a shop assistant at a department store. When Jizchak was three, she gave him up for adoption. ....

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