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1 y separately published work icon Looking In : Selected Poems Michael Leibowitz , Sydney : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2022 24510138 2022 selected work poetry

'Michael Leibowitz has had an ongoing love affair with the written word. During the pandemic, poetry visited Michael resulting in his collection of verse, Looking In: Selected poems.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Tika's Amazing Journey Kitty Lowinger , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2019 16945218 2019 single work biography children's

'Tika’s Amazing Journey journey begins on a train carrying her from fear to freedom. She remembers her life before boarding this train and describes her life as a young Jewish child during and after World war II. The story shows a child’s perspective of what it was like under both Nazi and Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. After their successful escape, Tika and her mother live through many adventures. They travel through strange lands and face many challenges. Tika is a brave, clever, mischievous child, who has to learn whom to trust and whom to fear. Most importantly, she has to learn how to survive in her ever-changing, curious, complex, world.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon My Kaddish : Memoir of a Childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto Therese C. Masson , Sydney : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2019 15366120 2019 single work autobiography

'This memoir by Therese C. Masson is one of the rare, first-hand accounts of a child’s life in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding on the Aryan side. In this short, beautifully written account, the author weaves together memories from her wartime childhood, reflections on the psychological burdens and damages she carried into her adult life, and accounts of her travels in the last decade of her life to contemporary Warsaw seeking to find traces of the past.

'In these pages, the reader will encounter events as they were experienced by a child as well as insights and confessions of an adult—written vividly, honestly and with striking psychological insight. This unique tapestry of time and perspective makes this book stand out in the vast and growing literature about the Holocaust.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Angel Magic Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2018 14900483 2018 single work novel historical fiction

'When bombs rain down on the Malayan plantation where seven-year-old Rosie lives with her parents and beloved amah, her days of privilege and playfulness come to an abrupt end. Swept along with other British families eager to escape Malaya, fate cruelly leaves Rosie on the deck of a ship heading to India, alone and separated from her family Confined to a brutal school in Bombay, a determined Rosie seeks freedom in the crowded, chaotic city slums. Her life is lightened when she meets Armand, a poor Portuguese-Indian boy, and his mother. They shield Rosie with their love and allow her to enjoy adventures and escapades on the magical streets of Bombay. While Rosie is growing up on her own terms, her parents and brother endure different worlds in prison camps, dreaming of one day being reunited in Scotland.'  (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Latvia's Haunting Secrets Ethel S. Davis , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2013 Z1925161 2013 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Letters to My Father Rina Huber , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2013 Z1923423 2013 single work correspondence
1 y separately published work icon The Meanderings of an Intrepid Traveller : Soles Must Travel Joy Burrell , Sydney : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2013 Z1919683 2013 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon A Carpet of Jacaranda Ann Major , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2013 6312954 2013 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Home without a Homeland Nora M. Huppert , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2012 Z1880869 2012 single work autobiography

'Nora Huppert has had a lucky life. Flown out of Prague on the first Kindertransport, she barely escaped the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. Her father from Berlin, a radical journalist, had fled even earlier, promising to arrange for Nora, her mother and brother to follow him to London. Nora was taken in by a large and loving English family, the McNairs, and spent the War years on a farm in the English countryside. Her vivid account of those years, of working in post-War London, meeting her Austrian doctor husband, Peter, living with him all over the country as he worked his way up the medical hierarchy, then migrating to Tasmania, as far as possible from Cold War Europe, is an enthralling story.

The cities of Europe between the Wars, Britain during the Blitz, post-War London and Switzerland, and Australia as experienced by a middle class migrant family are all vividly evoked in the book. Nora’s father’s and husband’s internment as ‘enemy aliens’ and their subsequent release into useful Allied War work; the tightening of the Nazi net around those like her mother and brother, marooned in Prague; the dispersal to camps and exile of family and friends from the great European cities; the rise and fall of Communism: Nora and her family have experienced the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century.' (Publisher's description)

1 y separately published work icon Cesha's Story Cesha Glazer , Carolyn Robertson , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2011 Z1880849 2011 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Chocolate to Anzac Biscuits George Sternfeld , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2009 Z1749565 2009 single work autobiography 'George Sternfield's book reveals a personal journey through a turbulent life, drawing on personal recollections, conversations with family members and friends and research. It tells of an infant escaping the Holocaust, a childhood spent in Siberia; adolescence in post-War Communist Poland, and maturity gained in Australia. It is a story is about escape, survival and migration to a new life in a faraway country with a different culture and language. The author states that he remains "convinced that the greatest challenge we face is to remain human in the face of tremendous odds'. (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Rosie's War : Escape from Singapore 1942 Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2007 Z1474060 2007 single work autobiography

"Singapore, 1942, is an exotic tropical city and the home of six-year-old Rosie Sharbanee. Born into a lively Iraqi-Jewish family who rose from humble beginnings to create a thriving business, Rosie's days are filled with the love of her amusing and exasperating relatives and servants. Forced to flee or submit to the Japanese occupation, Rosie's family splits apart. Rosie's War reveals their hazardous escape to Bombay, from the perspective of watchful, sensitive Rosie. With honesty and affection, Rosalind recalls her fascinating childhood in a family of multilingual British subjects, and illuminates their wartime struggles."

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 1 y separately published work icon In Search of My Father : A True Story Paul Drexler , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2006 Z1703054 2006 single work autobiography 'In Search of My Father is the true life story of a young Jewish boy from Slovakia caught up in the tragedy of the Holocaust. After being liberated in Theresienstadt by the Red Army, six year old Paul Drexler struggles to come to terms with his father's mysterious disappearance. He migrates to Australia with his heartbroken mother and begins a new life, but memories of his father are never far from his mind. Fifty years later Paul Drexler begins searching for his father, Eugen Drexler. His journey takes him from Australia to Slovakia, Germany and foreign lands that he never thought he would ever visit or return to. His desperate search to unveil the circumstances surrounding his father's brutal killing in the last days of World War II finally comes to an end, with evidence uncovered in the most unexpected of places. Powerful, moving and painfully real, In Search of My Father is a testament to the bond between father and son - a bond that cannot be broken by separation, death or the passing of time' (Jo Jo Publishing website)
1 y separately published work icon The Unfinished Symphony Hannah Lemberg , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2005 Z1877544 2005 single work autobiography
1 2 y separately published work icon Jewish Country girls : A Collection of Memories Diana Encel (editor), Sydney : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2005 Z1265968 2005 anthology autobiography Autobiographical sketches from the lives of 27 Jewish women, including Ruth Barnette, Denise Edwards, Riner Huber, Eva Setton, Barbara Stern, Karen Tatz, Jeanette Tsoulos and Ruth Wilson, who grew up in country New Suth Wales
1 1 y separately published work icon Returning the Favour Garry Braude , Sydney : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2005 Z1229234 2005 single work autobiography
2 3 y separately published work icon A Cork on the Waves : Reflections of a Turbulent Life Halina Robinson , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2005 Z1334589 2005 single work autobiography

'This is the story of how a great European crime, the murderous ethnic program of the German Reich, cancelled out the sweet Polish childhood and adolescence of the child Halina Trachtenberg. Above all, the book fills out our knowledge of the huge injustice done to families like hers. It is wonderful she was able to put it down in a satisfying record.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Auschwitz to Australia : A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir Olga Horak , East Roseville : Kangaroo Press , 2000 13871413 2000 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon There Was No Farewell : Fifty Years on Marian Pretzel Revisits Lvov Marian Pretzel , Sydney : Marian Pretzel Sydney Jewish Museum , 1995 Z828193 1995 single work
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