colours of life: living blind

LILLY SKURNIK GREW UP in the 1930s, the cherished daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants in Newtown, Sydney. Times were hard but the family lived and worked together, with great hopes for the future. In 1943 Lilly experienced two terrible tragedies: the death from cancer of her beloved father and the discovery of a tumour on her brain. Although the operation to remove it was successful, Lilly was blind.