By Bess Manson on Stuff…

It was to be one last mother daughter adventure: penning the story of a lifetime.

They had been on a few journeys together, Inge Woolf and Deborah Hart. This last one, though, would be bittersweet.

Holocaust survivor Woolf had been part-way through writing her memoir in 2020 when she was told she was dying.

A practical woman, a realist, she told her family simply that everyone had to die sometime, recalls Hart.

“My mother is not one for self-pity, but there was one moment she was very sad. She said: ‘I suppose I will never finish my book’.”

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