--'From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country'
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I am Renate, a writer and a poet. as well as an artist, a wife,
amother of three, and a grandmother of five.
In 1933, when I was two, my parents left Germany to settle in the
then Palestine, where I grew up in the countryside, in Tel-Aviv during WWII, and in a-kibbutz high school.
Like others of my generation, I lived in a world that aspired to create a Jewish state within
the borders of old Israel; and thus, I was a member of a youth movement and of the
Jewish youth-underground.
During Israel's War of independence I was responsible for my brigade's medical supplies,
served on ambulances, and in the field hospital of the Negev front. After the war
I was stationed in a demilitarised Border post at the foot of the Golan Heights.
In 1953, graduating a military nursing school, I got married, and worked with immigrants from Bagdad.
Due to economic necessity my husband and I immigrated to Sydney Australia in 1956,
where we opened our own small hospital.
After a period of study in the USA in the 1960's we opened a chiropractic clinic in Perth Western Australia where I worked as a Clinics' administrator and a-chiropractic radiologist.
During this period we built our
64ft sailing boat "Epic", my husband had a car accident,
and we-had a very interesting court case that made us 'detectives' of sorts.
Our leisure time was devoted to walking, swimming, body surfing and flying.
Today I concentrate on writing and painting. We still walk, swim and bodysurf,
as well as peddle our two little canoes.
So come with me through an interesting and varied life's journey. Laugh, cry and experience
that which I have had and enjoy the trip.
Renate,
Artist poet and the author of From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country