Foli Paris, left, a student at Yeshiva Gedola Rabbinical College of Sydney, recently spent a week in Tasmania, where he met resident Dirk Evenhuis on the far northwest coast, otherwise known as “The Edge of the World.”
At ‘The Edge of the World,’ a Man Discovers a Hidden Identity
Dirk Evenhuis had come to northwestern Tasmania as a 5-year-old in 1951. His family was among 35 Dutch families who had emigrated together. It wasnt until a pair of Bochurim on Merkos Shlichus ‘found’ him that he redicovered his Jewish roots, literally at ‘the edge of the world’.
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