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Uwe Radok

Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok edited by Jacquie Houlden and Seumas Spark

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March 2023, no. 451
Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Shadowline: The Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok', edited by Jacquie Houlden and Seumas Spark

Uwe Radok was born in 1916 in East Prussia to a family of Christian converts who identified as German Protestant. Nevertheless, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Radoks were classified as Jews – their five children Mischlinge, of mixed ancestry. In 1938, the family applied to emigrate to Australia. When their visas finally arrived in August 1939, it was too late.

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