Holocaust memoirs

Introduction

The Holocaust memoirs project is based on a growing database that, as of 2024, comprised 472 first-hand accounts written by Australia-based residents and/or published in Australia. This remains an ongoing project, with new entries being added as they are completed. The authors are a diverse group, varying in age, nationality, and religious background.

The database

The database includes memoirs authored by both Jewish survivors and non-Jewish witnesses. The writers endured a range of experiences during 1933-1945 and have primarily recounted their own experiences. Accounts categorised as “Jewish survivors” are those written by Jews who lived through the Holocaust, whereas the category of “witnesses” encompasses those who observed the Holocaust but were not its primary victims. This group includes Righteous Gentiles who provided assistance to Jews, members of underground resistance movements, and soldiers who participated in the liberation of concentration camps.

Not all survivors lived within the Nazi sphere of influence or directly endured Nazi brutality, yet they lived in constant fear as Jewsand thus their memoirs are included in the database. Some suffered antisemitic persecution in Nazi Germany, leading them to flee before the onset of the Second World War or during its early stages, seeking refuge in various regions of Europe, Asia and Australia. Many refugees from the eastern-occupied territories sought safety in the Soviet Union but encountered antisemitic discrimination, with some being interned in Soviet labour camps. In Hungary, prior to the Nazi occupation in 1944, Jews were subject to persecution under the fascist government, with many conscripted into forced labour battalions.

Among the majority who directly endured Nazi persecution, some survived by going into hiding, others endured the horrors of the ghettoes, ruthless liquidation policies in the east, and the concentration camps. The category of survivors encompasses a wide spectrum of experiences, ranging from those hidden ‘in the open’ under false identity papers to those who survived extermination camps. Many of those in hiding were children or adolescents who survived through the assistance of non-Jewish caregivers, such as in Catholic orphanages, or with members of the resistance or forest partisans. A number of survivors participated in organised resistance with the underground or partisan movements, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Some survivors enlisted in allied forces in Europe after fleeing Nazi-occupied territories or following liberation during the war’s final stages.

Authors

While all the memoirs in the database provide first-hand accounts, they vary in content, style and genre. Some were written by accomplished authors, while others by those who would not have chosen to write at all were it not for a compelling sense of duty to tell their stories. Most of these memoirs were written and published many decades after the events they recount. A few entries consist of diaries written during the war and published years later.

While the majority of entries take the narrative form of memoir or autobiography, others adopt a more literary or essayist style, including poetry, and a few are speeches. Many were written with the assistance of family, friends, writing programs (as discussed below), and in some cases, involved collaboration with professional authors, historians, or editors, resulting in a blend of memoir and biography. Some survivors engaged in substantial historical research, resulting in memoirs that are partly academic, although they remain first-hand accounts. Additionally, the database includes several edited collections and anthologies of first-hand accounts, produced by university researchers and Jewish institutions. To enhance accessibility, the database is broadly categorised based on genre and the experience group of the author.

Accounts range in length and detail; those featured in anthologies or edited collections are often very brief (spanning just a few pages) and provide only a short overview or glimpse into the survivor’s Holocaust experiences. In contrast, some memoirs extend to several hundred pages and recount experiences in great detail.

The extent to which authors discuss their pre-war and post-war lives also varies significantly. While some provide detail in great depth, others provide only brief glimpses or have not discussed these aspects at all. Some accounts focus primarily on the aftermath of the Holocaust, a few are multi-volume, recounting the author’s life from childhood to old age. Most are single-authored, but some memoirs are co-authored, presenting the experiences of married couples or families.

Currently, the database includes only testimonies in English, although some were written or first published in a language other than English. At a later time, it is hoped to include non-English as well as second and third-generation accounts.

Publication

The majority of memoirs in the database were either published by small Australian publishing houses, self-published by the authors themselves, or produced by various institutions and museums across Australia. Melbourne was the primary location for the publications, accounting for 302, while 126 were published in Sydney and 15 overseas. Given that most of the memoirs are not commercial publications, they have not undergone the rigorous editorial and proofreading process associated with mainstream publishing. Those published in Melbourne and Sydney are largely the result of the efforts of the Lamm Jewish Library (formerly Makor Jewish Community Library), the Sydney Jewish Museum, and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.  Below, these programs are briefly described.

In 1998, the Makor Jewish Community Library (now Lamm Jewish Library) in Melbourne initiated the “Write Your Story Program” under the dedicated guidance of program coordinator Julie Meadows OAM, who spent more than twenty-years gathering, editing and facilitating the publication of memoirs. In 2000, Adele Hulse joined as facilitator of the program’s weekly writing sessions and has since become coordinator. The project received a grant from the Victorian Multicultural Commission, to support the well-being of migrants over the age of fifty. Although not limited to Holocaust survivors, the program became an outlet through which many survivors could record and publish their stories. As of June 2023, the Library has published 144 memoirs authored by Jewish Australians, which include 102 Holocaust memoirs and eight anthologies. Additionally, 114 books have been written and published as part of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s Community Stories Department (formerly known as the Community Stories Project), led by Jacqui Wasilewsky. This project also began as a writing course in 2002. 89 of these publications are Holocaust memoirs with 64 written by first-generation survivors. Further publications are forthcoming. The Melbourne Holocaust Museum has also published fourteen memoirs authored by their survivor guides and volunteers, and holds dozens of donated, unpublished manuscripts by Australian survivors which can be viewed in their library.

Analysis

As of July 2023, the memoir project has identified 472 publications, which were published between 1945 and 2023, for possible inclusion in the database. Currently, the project has completed summaries for 185 of these. These memoirs are tabulated by place and date of publication, survivor experience, country of origin, and residence at the time of publication. The following section presents the results of this analysis. First, the publication date of the 472 accounts is summarised in Table 1.

Table 1: Holocaust memoirs by date of publication, 1945-2023

Figure 1: Holocaust memoirs by date of publication, 1945-2023

The following section presents the findings derived from the analysis of the 185 completed summaries. These include memoirs authored by individuals or in collaboration with others, as well as anthologies with contributions from multiple authors, comprising the accounts of 276 survivors and witnesses. As with the place of publication, the overwhelming majority – 207 out of 276 – are residents in Melbourne, with 32 residing in Sydney and 28 in Perth. A substantial number were also children or adolescents at the time of their experiences – 131 were born between 1927 and 1935.

Survivors endured a diverse range of experiences, broadly classified in five categories: ghetto life, internment in concentration camps, living in hiding, seeking refuge, and participating in resistance, including enlistment in armed forces. These experiences are also cross-referenced with the survivor’s country of origin. The country of origin was determined based on the national borders at the time of the survivor’s birth, not current boundaries which may have changed.

It should be noted that Tables 3, 4a and 4b present the number of survivor experiences per category. However, the total number of these experiences does not correspond to the total number of survivors (276) nor the total number of accounts (472) as outlined in Tables 1 and 2. This is because individual survivors often endure multiple experiences, and/or provide multiple accounts.

Table 2: Holocaust memoirs 1945-2023, country of origin of author

Table 3: Holocaust memoirs 1945-2023, main experience categories

Table 4: Holocaust memoirs 1945-2023, country of origin of author and main experience categories

Table 4b: Holocaust memoirs 1945-2023, rate of main experience categories per country of origin.

Development and organisation

The database contains detailed information for each publication. Each entry comprises a content summary, including a list of important geographical locations discussed within the work. In addition to bibliographical details (author’s name, publication title, publisher, place and year of publication), the database lists the source’s location when it is held by a library. At least one location is indicated for each entry in the database. A full list of library holdings can be accessed using the Trove resource (under Books and Libraries) on the National Library of Australia’s website.

The Makor Community Library was the publisher of memoirs produced by the “Write Your Story Program” until 2016, when the library was renamed the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia (LJLA) and assumed responsibility for ongoing publication. In 2022, the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne was renamed the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.

The concept for this project was developed in 1993 by Professor Andrew Markus, with initial preparation of summaries by Daniel Bloom, Adrian Sackson and Dr Margaret Taft, and with assistance by students enrolled in the subject 'The Holocaust' at Monash University. Approximately 100 summaries were initially prepared. In the second phase of the project, in 2019-2023, a database of publications was compiled by Sue Hampel and Courtney Baker. Approximately 300 additional summaries are being added in the second phase and the original summaries re-checked. The second phase summaries were prepared by Sue Hampel and Courtney Baker, with editorial oversight by Andrew Markus.

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Adler, Jacques, Remembrance, memory and life: Jewish holocaust survivors in Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993

Agar, Fred, A Colourful Life: A Memoir of Ferencz Schwartz/Fred Agar, Fred Agar (Brown Prior Anderson), Melbourne, 2006

Ajzen, Chaim, Chaim Ajzen remembers, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2005

Ajzenbud, Moshe, The Commissar took care, Globe Publishing, Melbourne, 1986

Ajzner, Hania, Hania's war, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Alexander, Aleksandra, Tracing the past, Self Published

Altman, Kitia, Memories of ordinary people, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Antman, Fred, A Tale of Three Cities: Berlin, Shanghai, Melbourne, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2011

Arkwright, Kenneth, Beyond Survival, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne, 2018

Armstrong, Diane, Mosaic - a chronicle of 5 generations, Melbourne, 1998

Arnstein, Lenke, Recurring dreams, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Atlas, Zygfryd, Just one life, Rocham, Melbourne, 1999

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Barac, Barbara, Escape from destiny, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, 1990

Benedikt, David. To Live is to Tell: Surviving the Shoah. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2010.

Berk, Leon, Destined to live, Paragon Press, Melbourne, 1992

Biderman, Abraham, World of My Past, AHB Publications, New South Wales, 1995

Bierzynski, Burnett, My Life and My Struggle, Bierzynski, Melbourne, 1996

Blau, Magda, From Childhood to Auschwitz, Self Published, Melbourne, 2003

Borenstein, Henry, All Alone: A young boy hiding in wartime Poland. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2008

Bornstein, Zelman, A Leaf on the Diaspora Tree, Melbourne: Self-Published, 1994

Braun, Emil, Into the Light, Self Published, Melbourne, 2000

Bruell, Anna, Autumn in Springtime, Self Published, Melbourne, 1995

Burnett, I.B., In Footsteps of Memory, Morescope Publishing, Melbourne, 1993

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Cassab, Judy, Judy Cassab Diaries, Random House, Sydney, 1996

Celemenski, Jacob, Elegy for My People, Self Published, Victoria, 2000

Censor, Maria, Letters to My Mother, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Cherny, Sylvia, Who is Sylvia?, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2004

Cohen, Louis, Just for the Record, Self Published, Melbourne, 2000

Colman, Alex, After Forty Years Silence, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, 1990

Cooper, Leo, The Long Road to the Lucky Country, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2005

Cooper, Leo, Stakhanovites and Others: The Story of a Worker in Soviet Union, Hudson Publishing, Melbourne, 1994

Cukierman, Doba-necha, A Guardian Angel, Ester Csaky, Melbourne, 1997

Cymbalist, Susie, Susie’s Story: Surviving in Budapest. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2011

Cyngler, Danka & Henry, Going through fire without getting burned: Memoirs of two Holocaust survivors, Melbourne: Self-Published, 2013

Cytrynowski, Itzhak, And I Will Remember My Covenant, Self Published, Melbourne, 1988

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Dror, Tamar, A Green Parrot, Kitia Altman, Sydney, 1999

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Ekstein, Elka, Chutzpe un Draystkayt, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2006

Eisfelder, Horst Peter, Chinese Exile, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Elton (Elbaum), Zyga, Destination Buchara, Dizal Nominees, Melbourne, 1996

Engelman, Matylda, The End of the Journey: An Autobiography, Lantana, Melbourne, 1978

Engelman, Matylda, Journey Without End: An Autobiography, Lantana, Melbourne, 1977

Erlanger, Arnold, Choose Life, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

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Fabian, Garry, A Look Back Over My Shoulder, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Feniger, Saba, Short Stories; Long Memories, Vista Publications, Melbourne, 1999

Fischl, Otto (Gerry). My Diary: 19 October 1943-15 March 1945. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2011.

Fisher, Susanna. The Seed that was Sown. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2013.

Fiszman, Moshe, My Vow Never to Forget. Elsternwick, VIC: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 2019

Firestone, Lucyna, Aby Dalej (Just Keep Going), Andrew Firestone, Melbourne, 2005

Fleiszig, Laszlo & Katalin. Interesting Times: Our journey from downtrodden to down under. Caulfield, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2006.

Foster,Thomas, Frozen Boots: A story of love and survival. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2006

Fransman, Harry, The Devil's Greed, Self Published, , 2000

Freuden, George. Off Piste: My Way. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2014.

Friedman, Jakob, Reluctant Soldier: A Jewish Partisan's Story, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2005

Friend, John, Out of darkness, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Friesova, Jana Renee, Fortress of my youth, Teledor Publishing, Hobart, 1996

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Gaida, Jack, This is my story, Self Published, Melbourne, 1985

Gilbert, David George. The lights and darkness of my being: My life story as a survivor. New York: Vantage Press, 1991.

Ginzburg, George, A Will To Live, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Glas-Wiener, Sheva, Children of the Ghetto, Globe Press, Melbourne, 1983

Glazer, Cesha, Cesha’s Story, Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, 2011

Gluck, Catherine, The Girl with Long Hair, Self Published, Sydney, 1992

Goldberg, Abram. The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life. South Melbourne, VIC: Affirm Press, 2022.

Goldberg, Luba, A Sparkle of hope, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Goldberg, Paulette, Just think it never happened, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Goldrei, Naomi, The Champions of my Childhood, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Goldstein, Guta, There will be tomorrow, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 1999

Gould, Lucy, Empty Corners - a memior, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Gray, Gary, A Spoonful of Soup and other stories, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Green, Sissel, The Deprivation of Cili Duman, French Forest, Melbourne, 1994

Gross, Jozef, If all the seas were ink, After Hours Computer Services, Melbourne, 1993

Grossman, Renate, Survival My Destiny, Sydney Jewish Museum, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010

Gunsberger, Otto, Choice of Profession, Nustyle Services, Melbourne, 1991

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Haberfeld, Lusia, Lauferin: The runner of Birkenau, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Halbreich, Simon, One day at a time Poland 1939-1945, J. Jarvis, Sydney, 1999

Hellen, Josef, Auschwitz-Birkenau: University of Life, Makor at Lamm Jewish Library of Australia, 2017

Hellinger, Elsa, Lucky, Again and Again: A Survivor from Michalovce, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2013

Hillel, Hilde R, Across barbed wire and beyond, Self Published, 1998

Hoffman, Louse and Masel, Shush. Without Regret, Perth: University of Western Australia, 1994

Hoffman, Maurie, Keep Yelling: A Survivor's Testimony, Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, 1995

Honigman, Ben, Upon Gods Mercy, Self Published, 1997

Horak, Olga, Auschwitz to Australia: survivors memoir, Kangaroo Press, Melbourne, 2000

Huppert, Nora, From Holocaust to Haven, Huppert, 2002

Hymans, Robert, Treasures from the attic, Self Published, Wodonga, 1994

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Ingram, Bernard Hellreich, Unfinished Symphony, Self Published, Newcastle, 1991

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Jaku, Eddie, The Happiest Man on Earth, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2020

Janowski, Niusia, A life apart, Self Published, Melbourne, 1993

Jolson, Leon, Działowski: A Survivor of the Sinking of the Cap Arcona. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor at Lamm Jewish Library of Australia, 2020

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Kahn, Robert L. Chapters From My Past. East Bentleigh, VIC: Self-Published, 1991.

Katz, Kalman, Memories of war, Eskay Press, Melbourne, 1995

Kay, David, Tough kid: surviving Siberia in style, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2005

Kaye, David. I Still Remember. Sydney: Self-Published, 1996.

Kempler, Sonia, The Wheels of Memory: Growing up with a war on my shoulders. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2010

Kery, Iby, I have been Chosen, Self Published, Melbourne, 1985

Kochan, Maurice, I Survived: A Testimony of a Teenager's Holocaust Experience, Self Published, Sydney, 1991

Kogosowski, Hanna, The times of my life, Self Published, 1991

Kolliner, Peter, The Story of the Kolliners, Self Published, Melbourne, 1987

Kolt, Judy, Tell it to the squirrels. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2009

Korda, Teri, My dear Andrea & Andris, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Korn, Henri, Saviours: The story of a Jewish Alter Boy, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2004

Kostanski, Jan, Janek - a gentile in the Warsaw Ghetto, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Kraus, Clara, The Colours of War: Ten Uncertain Years 1935-1945, Spectrum Publications, , 1987

Kriek, Samuel, Forty years, Focus on Israel, 2001

Krupinski, Jerzy, My four lives, Vista Publications, Melbourne, 2001

Kunstlich, Chaim Benjamin. L’Chaim: Surviving Soviet labour camps to rebuild a life in postwar Poland. Caulfield, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2009.

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Ladanyi, Helena, Where do you people come from?, Spectrum, Melbourne, 1988

Landau, David, Caged - a story of Jewish resistance, Pan McMillan, Sydney, 2002

Lane, Martin, Six million and one, York Press, Melbourne, 1973

Lazarus, Francine, A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, scars and healing. Elstree, UK: Vallentine Mitchell, 2017

Lederman, Celia, Becoming Celia: The Story of Haftling 46996, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2011

Lee, Des, I had nothing to lose: A life of ups and downs. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2010

Leizerson, Rachel, My Story, Self Published, Melbourne, 1990

Leperere, Helen, Memoirs & Reflections, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Lermer, Willy, From Hell to Salvation: Surviving the Holocaust. Elsternwick, VIC: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 2017

Levine, Barbara, Surviving, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2004

Lewin, Zwi and Reich, Joe. My Sack Full of Memories. Ormond, VIC: Hybrid Publishers, 2019.

Lewinson, Irene Alice, Half A Life: The First Forty Years, Vista Publications, Melbourne, 1996

Lewitt, Maria, Come Spring, Scribe, Melbourne, 1980

Lewkowicz, Berek, A Boy from Bedzin, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2014

Liebmann, Henriette, Death wore a Nazi uniform, Self Published, Melbourne, 1988

Lippman, Gert, A Link in the Chain, Self Published, Sydney, 1990

Lipszyc, Mordka Beer, Memoirs of Mordka Beer Lipszyc, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Lissauer, Mark, A 20th Century Jewish Life: A survivor from Hamburg. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2013

Lissing, Herman, Against All Odds I Survived, Self Published, , 1991

Lissing, Betty, God Cried at Auschwitz, LMN Systems, Adelaide, 2003

Loven, Shoshana, Blessings and Curses: A Life Remembered. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2010

Lowen, Fred. Fred Lowen: Dunera Boy, Furniture Designer, Artist. Castlemaine, VIC. Prendergast Publishing, 2000.

Lowy, Alex, Dedicated to my children & grandchildren, Self Published, 1989

Lurje, Izak, Nothing Special: The Story of my life, Self Published, Melbourne, 1999

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Maisel, Phillip. The Keeper of Miracles. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021.

Mandelbaum, Feige-Rachel, Dos is mayn Lebn - This is my life, Feigie Bennet, 1975

Mandelbaum, Rae, Echoes from the past, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 1999

Marks, Eva, A Patchwork Life, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Markuszewicz, Roman, A miraculous escape, J. Hammond, 1976

Mayer Aldor, Gertrude. From the Danube to the Yarra: An Autobiography with poetry and prose. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2017.

Mayer, Hania, A Lucky Human Being: An Incredible Story of Survival, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2009

Meadows, Julie, Memory guide my hand: An anthology of autobiographical writing by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 1998

Meadows, Julie, Memory guide my hand: An anthology of autobiographical writing by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community, volume 2, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Meadows, Julie, Memory guide my hand: An anthology of autobiographical writing by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community, volume 3, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2004

Milder, Marie. Hard memories: Surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2006.

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Nadel, Lita, From 2 hells:an autobiography, Self Published, Sydney, 1995

Nagler, Eva, Massacre on the Baltic, Self Published, Melbourne, 1995

Nowak, Josef, The sacrifice, Oasis Print, , 1990

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O’Brien, Vera. Journey to Life. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2009.

Olenski, Luba, A Life Reclaimed: A child among the partisans, Caulfield, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2006

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Parush, Eva, This is my life: From Ruske Pole with love, Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2006

Phillips, Hartog, Just call me Harry: growing up in a Dutch village, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2005

Pretzel, Marian M, By My Own Authority. Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1985

Pretzel, Marian M, Portrait of a Young Forger: Marian Pretzel’s memoir of His adventures and survival in wartime Europe, St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, 1989

Pretzel, Marian M, There was no farewell: Fifty years on Marian Pretzel revisits Lvov, Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 1995

Prow, George, Unforgettable Heroine, Self Published, 1996

Przbyszewicz, Lusia, All That Was, Self Published, 2001

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Quittner, Eva, Pebbles of Remembrance, Kerr Publishing, Sydney, 1993

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Rack, Ruth, Book of Ruth: memoirs of a child survivor, Southern Highlands, Sydney, 2002

Raubitschek, Ernst and Yates, Renate. By Train to Dachau. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2009.

Ray, Kenneth, Ordered to live-the life of a holocaust survivor, Vision Publication, 2000

Reichman, Mara. Spared for a Purpose: The Music Lives On. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2008.

Reinisch, George, Shanghai Haven, Self Published

Reiser, Icyk Mendel, The watchmaker, Self Published

Reisman, Kathy, More than nine lives, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2002

Reiss, Henry, January 1944: a saga of survival, Reiss family, Sydney, 1991

Robin, Moshe, Stepping into life, Reiss family Moshe, Melbourne, 2002

Robinson, Halina, A cork on the waves, Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, 2005

Rogozinski, Szymon, My fortunate life, Self Published, Melbourne, 2001

Rosenberg, Jacob G., East of time, Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005

Rosenberg, Jacob G., Sunrise West, Brandl & Schlesinger, Blackheath, 2007

Rosenberg, Elfie, Serry and me: kindertransport and beyond, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2001

Rosenbloom, Fela, Miracles do happen: memoirs, Scribe, Melbourne, 1994

Ross, Rita, The Sum of Three: Rutka, Jadzia, Rita, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2013

Roth, Rena, Gizela, Endeavour Publishing, Melbourne, 1988

Roth, Marianne, An intricate collage, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Rubin, Wolf, Wolf: survivng by art, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Rudolph, Joanne, Witness: voices from the Holocaust, Macmillan, , 2000

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Saaroni, Sarah, Life goes on regardless, Hudson Publishing, Hawthorn, 1989

Saaroni, Sarah. Hope For a Better Future. Elsternwick, VIC: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 2018.

Sage, Alex, For Esther, Flamingo, Melbourne, 2000

Sandy, Kitty, Stormy weather: A life’s journey from Budapest to Melbourne, Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2006

Sattler, Stanislaw, Prisoner of 68 months Buchenwald & Auschwitz, Kelly Books, Melbourne, 1980

Schreiber, Vera, The porcelain doll Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Schwartz, Andor. Living Memory. Carlton, VIC: Black Inc., 2003.

Schwartz, Baba. The May Beetles: My first twenty years. Carlton, VIC: Black Inc., 2016.

Schwartz, Zoltan, Army-cap boy, McMillan, Melbourne, 1983

Schwartz, Zoltan, Survivors: autobiography, Lina Publishing, Melbourne, 1998

Sedgeman, Peter. As Far as I Can Remember. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Jewish Museum, 2006.

Seligman, Richard, Very convenient everywhere. New York: Vantage Press, 1991

Sharpe, Annita, Escape to Les Vignes: A Childhood in Nazi-Occupied France, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne 2007

Shaw (Schermant), Henryka. Standing Tall. Sydney: Self-Published, 2005.

Siegreich, Siegmund, The Thirty Six, Random House, Sydney, 2009

Silberg, Michael, My story, Self Published, Melbourne, 1992

Silbert, Eric, Dinkum mishpochah, Artlook Books, , 1981

Simievic, Charles, Letter to Timna and Gil from your Saba Charles Simievic, Self Published

Singer, Ivan A., Across three continents, Self Published, Sydney, 1994

Singer, Ivan, My father's blessing, Singer Consulting, Sydney, 2002

Skall, Lily, My story, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2000

Slonim, Eva, Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor, Black Inc Books (Schwartz Publishing), Melbourne, 2014

Spindler, Arthur, Outwitting Hitler, surviving Stalin, University of New South Wales Press, New South Wales, 1997

Spira, Leonard, A Lucky Story: How a Polish family came to Australia in 1941. Sunshine Beach, QLD: Self-Published, 2008

Spitzer, Martin, Storm over Tatra, Self Published, Adelaide, 1989

Sprada & Prigge, Regina & Geoff, Laugh to survive, Geoff Prigge Productions, Melbourne, 1993

Spring, Joseph. From Berlin to Biere: Growing up in the Holocaust. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2009.

Sput-Stern, Anna, On the other side of the river, Aussie Publications, Melbourne, 1999

Stark, Boris and Leikin, Vladimir, ed. Not to be forgotten: Eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust from Melbourne Residents, Melbourne: Self-Published, 2003

Stark, Boris/Boris Starikov, A Long Way to Freedom, Self Published, Melbourne, 2010

Starkiewics, Helena, Blades of grass between the stones, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Steel, Helen Rose, T.B. versus Nazi, Self Published, 1987

Sten, George, Memoirs of a survivor, Self Published, Sydney, 1996

Steinbok, Fela, My Life: Surviving in Russia, Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2007

Steinbok, Fela, Remember. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2008

Stern, Max, My stamp on life, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2003

Stone, Nina, Born to Survive: A long journey to freedom. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor at Lamm Jewish Library of Australia, 2015

Stone, Nina, Silent no more: Melbourne child survivors of the Holocaust, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Melbourne, 1999

Szalmuk, Mira, From tragedy to triumph, Puma Press, Melbourne, 1997

Szego, George, Two prayers to one God, Hardi Grant Books, Melbourne, 2001

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Tauber, Tova, Out of The Ashes: How I survived Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Torgau, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2011

Tycho, Tommy, Tommy Tycho story: music, maestro please, Brolga, 1995

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Urbach, Eva. Through Coloured Glass: Reflections on my changing world. Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2008.

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Valent, Paul, Child survivors, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1993

Valenta, Nick, Destiny and luck, Self published, Sydney, 2002

van Apeldoorn, Jan, Departure delayed, Robertson & Mullens, 1945

van Rijsdijk, Mink, The Shoes of a Foundling. Translated by Anneke van Deurse-Verhave, Caulfield South, VIC: Makor Jewish Community Library, 2005

Varga, Susan, Heddy and me, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1994

Verolme, Hetty E, The children's house of Belsen, Fremantle Press, Fremantle, 2000

Verstandig, Mark, I rest my case, Saga Press, Melbourne, 1995

Visontay, Czeizler Rose, Boutique, Self Published, Sydney, 1976

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Wagowska, Halina, People and Places in War and Peace, Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne, 2009

Wajnblum, Emanuel, My destiny - an autobiography, Self Published, Melbourne, 1998

Wajnryb, Abraham, Testimony of Dr. Abraham Wajnryb, Self Published

Wajnryb, Abraham, They marched us three nights, Melbourne Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, 1988

Wargon, Alex, The several lives of Alex Wargon, Self Published, Sydney, 1998

Weiss, Lotte, My two lives, Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, 2003

West, Joseph, Survival, struggle and success, JFW Publications, 1995

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