Child migrant Michael Goodwin never knew his mother - a German Jew - spent her life looking for him
Michael learned his mother, Ilse, lost her family in the Holocaust. She came to Australia to try to find him - but never did
His mother, Ilse, had fled to England via Italy from Nazi Germany in 1939. Her parents and brother, who had remained in Germany, were murdered during the Holocaust."I realised that my identity had been stolen," he said.He learned his mother had joined the services in the fight against Hitler. During that time, she had entered into a relationship with a soldier and subsequently fell pregnant.
This month he and Dr Humphreys travelled to the city of Chemnitz in Germany, from where his mother fled the Nazis more than eight decades earlier. The city authorities, who were organising a memorial project, invited Michael to view a film they had made which featured members of his German family."You've been going around for 80 years, not knowing all these people and suddenly you're learning about them," he said.
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