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The
Story of Steve – An Immigrant’s Tale
By
Dan
Remenyi
To
read a brief biography of the author
click
here
This
is a biography and a ghost story set in various parts of the world including the
slums of post war
Dublin
and the plush life of colonial
Africa
.
From
his arrival in
Ireland
from
Hungary
as a Radio Officer on board the ship Vicia in 1941, Steve Remenyi was faced
with what might have been for others, insurmountable problems. His ship was
trapped in
Dublin
. He couldn’t speak English and he didn’t know anyone in
Ireland
. But Steve was both an optimist and a survivor and made the most of the
challenges facing him. So he started a business.
Then
marrying, seeing his business go broke and having a child in war time
Dublin
were just a few of the adventures he faced. After the war ended he returned to
the sea with Irish Shipping and
became involved in the lucrative Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes
operation. This changed his life dramatically. But for various reasons
this new found comfortable life in
Mount
Merion
in
Dublin
’s then fashionable South Side did not last long.
He
moved with his family to
South Africa
and then
Rhodesia
. This was during the heydays of apartheid in
South Africa
and the rule of the Settler Government in
Rhodesia
. Nonetheless it seemed that he never achieved the promised success which he had
thought possible when leaving
Ireland
for a new life in the Southern hemisphere – or did he? He died early when
just 65 years old.
But
his death was not the end of the story. Steve’s memory did not rest in peace.
It transpired that he was a highly secretive man. This immigrant’s tale
reached out from beyond the grave to touch the life of his three children –
each in different ways. It led me from adventures in the pastoral Hungarian
countryside to the sinister gates of
Auschwitz
itself.
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