LEADER 03372nam 22005293 450 001 9910440650503321 005 20240319182830.0 010 $a1-76046-427-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011785033 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6519026 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6519026 035 $a(OCoLC)1232438554 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64028 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011785033 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAt Home in Exile $eA Memoir 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2021 210 1$aCanberra :$cANU Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called 'my spiritual home?. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga?s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted. 517 $aAt Home in Exile 606 $aBiography & True Stories$2bicssc 606 $aMemoirs$2bicssc 606 $aAustralasian & Pacific history$2bicssc 610 $aInternment 610 $aWorld War II 610 $aPersia 610 $aGermany 610 $aExile 615 7$aBiography & True Stories 615 7$aMemoirs 615 7$aAustralasian & Pacific history 700 $aGriffin$b Helga M$0847882 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910440650503321 996 $aAt Home in Exile$91893612 997 $aUNINA