More excerpts from the life of a refugee
RETIRED Sheffield teacher Inge Joseph, who came to Britain as a 12-year-old refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1942, has had a third volume of her memoirs published.
The honesty and frankness of her diary-keeping (using the pen name Ingrid Jacoby) has already caught widespread attention through Radio 4 programmes Message to Myself and Woman's Hour and a large extract of her wartime journal appeared in a collection called Stolen Voices of first-hand stories from war zones published by Penguin Viking.
My Darling Diary – Vol III covers Ingrid Jacoby's (or Inge Pollak as she then was) life through the first half of the 1950s from the age of 23 to 26.
Working in Oxford for Rosenthals' Antiquarian Booksellers, she records relationships between all her work colleagues.
The intimacies and eccentricities of a number of boyfriends are brought to life, as either good or bad sexual encounters ensue or promises of more stable relationships occur.
At times Ingrid is sent into depression. She remembers, at the age of 12, being transported via Kindertransport from Vienna to Falmouth with her sister Lieselotte, discovering that her mother was lost forever after dying in a German concentration camp and subsequently being unable to properly find a close relationship with her father and his new wife.
Finally though, there is a relationship that brings stability and reason to Ingrid. She meets and falls deeply in love with Stan, the man she was to marry and move to Sheffield with in 1963. She studied at Sheffield University as a mature student and went on to teach modern languages at Rowlinson and Waltheof schools and at adult night classes. All that will have to wait for a future volume of diaries.
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