At Home in Exile : A Memoir.
Griffin, Helga M.
At Home in Exile : A Memoir. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Author's Note to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- 1. A Fountain in the Square -- 2. The Lost Homeland -- 3. Steinkirche -- 4. A Jewel in the Austrian Crown -- 5. Meeting the Relatives -- 6. For the Love of Iran -- 7. To the Bottom of the World -- 8. Das Lager -- 9. His Majesty's Guests -- 10. The Imaginary Homeland -- 11. Shadows and Flames -- 12. After the War -- 13. Stranded in Exile -- 14. Swimming for the Eucharist -- 15. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- 16. Mirror Without Identity -- 17. The Wreck of the Deutschland -- 18. Intelligence Testing -- 19. A Banquet of Life -- 20. Marriage in Rome -- 21. Integration.
This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family's search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background.
9781760464271
Griffin, Helga-Maria, 1935-.
Refugees--Australia--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Australia--Biography.
Electronic books.
DU116.2.G75
944.04092
At Home in Exile : A Memoir. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Author's Note to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- 1. A Fountain in the Square -- 2. The Lost Homeland -- 3. Steinkirche -- 4. A Jewel in the Austrian Crown -- 5. Meeting the Relatives -- 6. For the Love of Iran -- 7. To the Bottom of the World -- 8. Das Lager -- 9. His Majesty's Guests -- 10. The Imaginary Homeland -- 11. Shadows and Flames -- 12. After the War -- 13. Stranded in Exile -- 14. Swimming for the Eucharist -- 15. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- 16. Mirror Without Identity -- 17. The Wreck of the Deutschland -- 18. Intelligence Testing -- 19. A Banquet of Life -- 20. Marriage in Rome -- 21. Integration.
This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family's search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background.
9781760464271
Griffin, Helga-Maria, 1935-.
Refugees--Australia--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Australia--Biography.
Electronic books.
DU116.2.G75
944.04092