Book - Refugee Turned Patriot: One Man's Quest For Security:
This book is the story of a man, his family, and his determination to survive the Holocaust by fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria and Czechoslovakia. It’s all the more compelling for having been told without malice by a man who was both a grateful refugee and an essentially private person. It reveals how refugees were received in New Zealand in the late 1930s and 1940s, and prevailing attitudes at the time, based on formerly secret government documents. It explores Austria’s belated but growing commitment to atone for past failures concerning its treatment of Jews. Far from being forgotten, what happened in World War II continues to hold global interest.

Bio:
Karen M Brown is a former award-winning New Zealand print and radio journalist for over 40 years. She has a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University and an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri Columbia in the United States. She was Radio New Zealand's Health Correspondent for 14 years, until October 2019. In this role, she won awards from the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists and the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand, in 2010. She also received the Chair's Award from the New Zealand Medical Association - its highest accolade - in 2019. Since retiring from daily journalism, Karen has focussed on her own writing, culminating in this book.

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