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Born: 15 Feb 1914 Poland
Gender: Female
Heritage: Polish
Arrived in Australia: 1948
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Matylda Engelman was born in Bielsko, Poland, matriculated in Warsaw and completed medical cosmetician's courses in Warsaw and Paris. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Mrs Broner, as she was known then, was alone with a small child. Her husband, Marek, had only just migrated to Palestine to set up a new house for his family but, not having heard from his wife for six years, he believed Matylda and his child to be dead. He remarried and started a new family. This was a bitter blow to Matyl....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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16 Mar 2010