In a Famous Five novel, the five children would return home unchanged, life a little more splendid for the adventure. His family’s Königsberg business had been confiscated by the Nazis, and he was making his way to Australia ahead of the gathering catastrophe. Nan and Anton were married six months after arriving in Australia – in Lara near Geelong Grammar School where her eldest brother, Kay, worked. Anton was a Jew in Germany, a German in Australia. She gives birth to a daughter, Anni, whom at the end she cedes temporarily into her brother’s care – so that Anni might see Australia and have her voice trained.