This diverse collection of thirty autobiographical stories from the Melbourne Jewish community adds a human face to the history books. Cyril Cohen’s account of the landing on Gallipoli is taken directly from his diary. Esther Knaster’s story, translated from Yiddish,...
“They met for the first time, three days before their wedding. She was seventeen and beautiful, he eighteen and ugly. My Grandmother Dvora cried from the moment she saw her intended bridegroom until after her wedding day. She had hoped for better. In spite of these...
As a child, George experienced the Berlin of the 1930s, attending the 1936 Olympic games and witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht. Evacuated to Belgium with the Kindertransport, George later tried to enter Switzerland but was betrayed by Swiss guards. Arrested as a...
Shoshanna (Suzanne) Lehrer’s journey through life has led her to many remote and often exotic places in the world. After the Nazis took her father from their home in Vienna, she and her mother flee to the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invade, they are...
The refurbishment of this room has been proudly made possible by Wolf & Dora Rajcher Memorial Fund. It is now almost ready for meetings, quiet reading or research, film screenings or lectures.
