Lisbeth and Wilhelm Mayer, about the time of their marriage in 1941. At right is their daughter, Maria Scurrah.
Holocaust echoes a warning for all times
Growing up in Peru in the 1940s and 50s, Maria Scurrah didn't know what a "Jew" was. When she was told she was one, she was mystified. "What? Was I supposed to have horns growing out of my head? I had no idea what it was all about," she said. Maria, who now lives in Newcastle, NSW, with her Australian husband, Martin, spent much of her childhood in South America blissfully unaware of antisemitism and of the horrors that in the 1930s drove her parents to leave their homes in Germany to make a new life…
