Tofield resident remembered in ‘The Freedom Swimmers’

When Tony Chin started recording his mother Hanna’s life, it was only meant to capture her story and life events for his daughters to know her better, but soon it took a life of its own.

“Initially I wrote the manuscript to record my mother’s life story about her escape from her home country for my daughters to know,” Chin said. “It was only supposed to stay in the family and never be published. But, as I progressed with the document, and hundreds of interviews later, I thought it might be good to reframe it into a book.

“There was so much more to the story than what I initially knew that it deserved a full narration. . . . contd.

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