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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 […]