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Tough Kid

by: David Kay

David Kay was only five years old when the Red Army entered Belarus and his father was jailed as a bourgeois, an enemy of communism. David, his mother Genia and […]

A Life Reclaimed

by: Luba Olensky

David Kay was only five years old when the Red Army entered Belarus and his father was jailed as a bourgeois, an enemy of communism. David, his mother Genia and […]

Our Mother Our Nana

by: Luba Olensky

“Our Mother Our Nana” is the diary kept by Aran Eckstein from her sixteenth birthday until her first marriage in 1940 and with some important additions  […]

Through Coloured Glass

by: Eva Urbach

In 1939, Eva Nothmann and her parents escaped Nazi Germany, the home of their forebears for many generations, to take refuge in faraway Australia.  […]

A Life

by: Nachum Zalman Gurewicz

Nachum Zalman Gurewicz was born into a learned and pious Jewish family in decaying Imperial Russia. He established his own Jewish household in the Stalinist  […]

From Chains to Honours

by: Michael Cohen

“When brothers Judah and Joseph Solomon arrived in Hobart Town as chained convicts in February 1820, it is unlikely either one imagined that their families would become […]

Two World's United

by: Michael Taub

From his comfortable vantage point high on Bellevue Hill, Michael Taub recounts his turbulent early life and reflects on the momentous events and migrations that have […]

Journeys

by: Riva Cohen

Born in Tashkent to observant parents in 1946, deep in Central Asia and under the oppressive rule of the Soviet Union, Riva Rivkin was far removed from […]