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A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She viewed her father take his own life and her mother accede to erotic blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera's survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest humour, she recalls a global where the prefer to make it through was everything. After the war, Vera studied journalism at Warsaw College or university, throwing herself into the bohemian field. In 1958, she migrated to Australia with her hubby and young boy to escape rising anti-Semitism. Here she would carve out an exciting profession as an ABC TV researcher and developer on pioneering programs such as This Day Tonight. It had been a wild time for politics and the media, and Vera was at the centre of it all, mixing with the Hawkes in the 1980s and developing a close camaraderie with musician Mirka Mora. In Vera, acclaimed biographer Robert Hillman has captured the fierce and keen life of an incredible Australian. Robert Hillman's memoir, The Young man in the Green Suit, received the Australian National Biography Award for 2004. His 2007 biography, My Life as a Traitor, written with Zarah Ghahramani, made an appearance in numerous abroad editions. His first collaboration with Najaf Mazari, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, is a set words in many academic institutions. He's also the writer of Gurrumul: His Life and Music and the book Joyful.
