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Immigrant, farmer, widow, diamond dealer, author and . . . mother

Frauke bolten-Boshammer diamond in the dust

Source: Frauke Bolten-Boshammer

Driven by her husband Friedrich's dream of a farm in Australia, Frauke Bolten-Boshammer found herself in 1981 with four small children as the only German family in a tiny village in northern Western Australia, in Kununurra. But the longed-for success did not materialize, and Friedrich took his own life.


Diamond in the dust
Source: Frauke Bolten-Boshammer

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