By Doug Sail on Stuff…
A story of World War II heroism by a teenage Jewish girl in Germany is wrapped up in a piano in South Canterbury, but who was she?
Geraldine resident Jenny Kellahan now owns the “medium grand” that came combined with a story of wartime tragedy and triumph of assisting the Underground with secret messages in an effort to thwart the Nazis and the Gestapo.
The mystery surrounds her identity as the Timaru man, Stuart Croft, now 84, who listened to her tale on several occasions over 20 years ago while tuning the piano, can now no longer remember her name or locate it in his business records. It is believed she settled in Ohoka, North Canterbury, where she taught music for the rest of her life.
The Holocaust centre of New Zealand is keen find out more, especially with Friday being United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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