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Read by: Conrad Coleby
Running Time: 7 hrs approx.
Categories: Biography, Holocaust, Non-Fiction
Released: September 2023
Media: mp3 CD, Unabridged Audio Book
ISBN: 9781696610582
Tony Bernard grew up sailing, surfing and swimming on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, being raised with his younger sister and brother by his hardworking father Henry, a local family doctor.
He initially studied dentistry at Sydney University before following his dad into medicine, undertaking his medical training at Nottingham and Cambridge Universities in Britain.
After returning to practice in Newcastle, regional NSW and Sydney, he spent his career working in the emergency department of Mona Vale Hospital, the same hospital in which his dad had previously worked for many years. More recently he also works in the emergency department of the new Northern Beaches Hospital.
His father Henry was his hero, and it was natural that he followed him into the medical profession.
Yet it was one thing to idolise Henry and another to understand who he was and what he had gone through.
Over decades and during multiple trips to Europe, Tony found himself on a path of discovery, eventually writing his father's memoirs shortly before his death in 2016.
What began as a journey to understand his father became the uncovering of an extraordinary holocaust survival story.
Tony lives on the Northern Beaches of Sydney with his wife Jennifer and daughter Sarah.
To the outside world, Henry Bernard was a hard-working and beloved family doctor on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Yet he was also a Holocaust survivor whose life was profoundly affected by the experiences of his past. He took extreme steps for his family's security, keeping a rifle near his bedroom and covering up his family's Jewish origin.
But Henry had a bigger secret and a deeper regret about what he had done during the war.
The Ghost Tattoo is the story of how Tony Bernard, Henry's eldest son, went on a forty-year journey with his father to solve the mystery of why Henry was the way he was, and how he finally came to understand the desperate choices Henry had made in the ghetto to try to keep himself ... and his family ... alive.
“This extraordinary narrative is a powerful instance of the trans-generational impact of the Holocaust but, above all, is a remarkable examination of the position of a ghetto policeman and the guilt he felt, if he survived, into later life.” - Thomas Keneally, author of “Schindler’s List”
Audiobook on CD-ROM, complete with cover art on CD. Supplied in windowed CD sleeve, no case provided.
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