: ‘Born white in a brown city’: This book is a poignant memoir of growing up Jewish in Lahore #IndiaNEWS I first encountered Hazel Selzer in the archives. She could not have been more than four,

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‘Born white in a brown city’: This book is a poignant memoir of growing up Jewish in Lahore #IndiaNEWS
I first encountered Hazel Selzer in the archives. She could not have been more than four, but still figured prominently in a list that attributed her with a political opinion based on what was perceived to be her father’s political stance: anti-Nazi. Her brother was three. This document was the “nominal camp roll??? for the parole camp at Satara – one of the several sites where the British Indian Government had interned foreigners with transnational connections in general and Axis links in particular, during the Second World War. The Selzers – Hermann and Kate – were German-Speaking Jews holding Polish passports. Both were doctors by profession and had fled Europe on the cusp of Hitler’s rise to power. Their children – Hazel and Michael – were born in Lahore and were consequently designated subjects of the British Empire. With the German invasion and takeover of Poland, the senior Selzers became stateless people – deemed “enemy alienp???HH???X[?]K?^?[[???[Z[H??H??Z[????Y?????[[??H[??]H?H??[???H?[H]?[?Y??H???][????[]Y??^?Y[??H????[??[??X???[?[?[?[?8?$???Z[???H?X?Z]?[??[??????XY[?H

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