Mark Raphael Baker Mark Raphael Baker i(A16947 works by)
Born: Established: 7 Oct 1959 ; Died: Ceased: 4 May 2023
Gender: Male
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Mark Raphael Baker was the author of The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory (a seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust) and Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love (a memoir about grief and the death of his wife).

He was Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (where he was Adjunct Associate Professor in 2018) and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the School at Monash University, Melbourne.

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y separately published work icon The Fiftieth Gate : A Journey Through Memory Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 1997 Z1296530 1997 single work biography

'A love story and a detective story, a study of history and of memory, this spellbinding new work explores a son's confrontation with the terror of his parents' childhood. Moving from Poland and Germany to Jerusalem and Melbourne, Mark Raphael Baker travels across the silence of fifty years, through the gates of Auschwitz, and into a dark bunker where a little girl hides in fear. As he returns to scenes of his parents' captivity, he struggles to unveil the mystery of their survival. The Fiftieth Gate is a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, finds light.' (Harper Collins)
1997 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Multicultural NSW Award
1997 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards — The Trish Trinick Prize for the Best Narrator
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