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'Write Your Story' Program
The 'Write Your Story' program is a
well known cultural activity of Makor Library. Developed and co-ordinated by Julie Meadows, the program offers support
for people to write their autobiographies, through classes and editorial advice, The memoirs that have resulted were
written primarily for the children and grandchildren of the authors but it soon became apparent that they were
attracting a wider audience.
The 'Write Your Story' publications are
now part of a growing archive, the Loti and Victor Smorgon archive, housed at Makor, that will furnish
future readers and scholars with primary-source material on the social history of the Melbourne Jewish Community. Some
of our writers are third-generation Australians but the majority are migrants or children of migrants. Whether the
stories start in the 1880s, the 1930s or post-1945, they offer valuable information to future generations about the
first-comers and the structures they built.
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From left: Elfie
Rosenberg, Helen Max, Tess Schwarz at the launch of their books |

From left: Garry
Fabian, Myra Fisher, Paulette Goldberg, Eva Marks |
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'Write Your Story' Classes
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You don't have to be a 'writer' yourself to write your
story for your children, grandchildren, or yourself in a warm and encouraging atmosphere. Makor offers expert guidance
with writing, editing and publication. A great range of backgrounds and experiences of those who make up our Community
is brought to life in our weekly writing sessions.
Classes run every Wednesday afternoon. Cost
is $11 or $7.70 concession (including GST). For further information contact Leonie Fleiszig on 9272 5611.
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Click
here to read an extract from the writings of Kitia Altman, one of our past class
members.
''Write Your Story'
Publications
Click to open the Write
Your Story booklist with all publications as of September 2007 (pdf document);
To print out only the pricelist and order form click
here.
Please mail or fax your
order to Makor Library and we will post the books to your address. |
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Author |
Click on a book cover below or check the
booklist for individual book information. |
Title |
Price |
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Memory Guide My Hand
Volume 5
The 2nd anthology of life stories by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community from the former Soviet Union |
$30 |
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Memory Guide My Hand
Volume 4
An
Anthology of life stories by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community from the former Soviet Union |
$35 |
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Memory Guide My Hand
Volume 3
An
Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
$30 |
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Memory Guide My Hand
Volume 2
An
Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
N/A |
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Memory Guide My
Hand - Volume 1
An
Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community |
N/A |
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Ajzen, Chaim |

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Chaim Ajzen
Remembers |
$20 |
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Ajzner, Hania |
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Hania's War |
$25
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Altman, Kitia |
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Memories Of Ordinary People
For those who have no one to remember them
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$35 |
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Arnstein, Lenke |
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Recurring Dreams |
$25 |
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Barclay, Henry |

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Run Henry Run
Chemist, Legionnaire, Scout
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$25 |
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Barnett,Mel |
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Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy
An East London Childhood |
$25 |
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Beckwith, Doreen |
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Full Circle
The Story of a Chained Woman |
$25 |
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Benjamin, Sydney A.B. |
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A Full House |
$22
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Bergman, Bella |

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Leaves of My Life |
N/A |
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Birner, John |

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Changing Landscapes
The story of my formative years |
N/A |
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Boas, Bernard A.
OAM |
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The Five Books Of Boas
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$25 |
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Borenstein, Henry |

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All Alone
A young boy hiding in wartime Poland
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$20 |
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Buckner, Ille
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Starts and Pauses
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N/A |
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Censor, Maria |
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Letters To My Mother |
$20
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Cherny, Sylvia
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Who is Sylvia?
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N/A |
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Cooper, Leo
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The Long Road to the Lucky Country
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$28 |
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Ekstein, Elka |

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Chutzpe un Draystkayt
A teenager with chutzpah and teneacity in the Holocaust
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$20 |
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Eidelson, Meyer |
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Books, Tanks and Radios
Stories from a Family of Survivors |
$20 |
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Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’ |
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Chinese Exile
My Years in Shanghai and Nanking
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$25 |
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Erlanger, Arnold |
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Choose Life |
$25 |
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Fabian, Garry |
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A Look Back Over My Shoulder |
$22 |
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Feiglin, Aaron |

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Growing Up With The Trees
A Shepparton Story
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$20 |
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Fisher,
Myra |
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Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials |
$25 |
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Fleiszig, Laszlo and Katalin |

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Interesting Times
Our journey from downtrodden to down under
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N/A |
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Friedmann, Jakob
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Reluctant soldier
a Jewish Partisan’s Story
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$25 |
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Gardner, Helen |
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My Mother's Child |
$27.50
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Gersten, Dora |

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Memoirs of a Certain Period in Our Lives
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N/A |
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Ginzburg, George |
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A Will to Live
Autobiography |
$35 |
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Goldberg, Paulette |
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Just Think It Never Happened |
$25 |
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Goldrei, Naomi |
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The Champions Of My Childhood |
$25 |
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Goldstein, Guta |
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There Will Be Tomorrow |
$25
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Gould, Lucy |
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Empty Corners |
$22
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Gray,
Gary |
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A Spoonful of Soup:
and Other Stories
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$25 |
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Grinblat, Ian |
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Nachum Zalman Gurewicz: a life |
$25 |
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Gust, Itzhak
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Such Was Life
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$28 |
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Haberfeld, Lusia |
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Lauferin
The Runner Of Birkenau |
$25
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Harari, Mayer |
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Second Exodus |
$25
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Jacobs, Anne |

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Alien Roots
A German Jewish girlhood from belonging to
exile
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$30 |
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Jawary, Sabiha |
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Baghdad I Remember |
N/A |
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Kay, David as told
to
Ian Grinblat
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Tough Kid
Surviving Siberia in Style
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$25
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Korda, Teri |
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My Dear Andrea And Andris |
$25
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Korn, Henri |
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Saviours
The Story of a Jewish Altar Boy |
$20 |
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Kozminsky-Meyerowitz, Mena |
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Keeping the Promise
Memories of a War Bride from Israel |
$25 |
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Landau, Alice |

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Snippets from my Family Album
Csepel
Island to Caulfield |
$30 |
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Lawner, Helen |

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A three
generational perspective
Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto |
$30 |
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Leperere, Helen |
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Memoirs And Reflections |
$11 |
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Mandelbaum, Rae |
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Echoes From The Past
The Rifka Norman Story
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$15.40
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Marks, Eva |
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A Patchwork Life |
$25 |
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Max, Helen |
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Searching For Yesterday
a Photographic Essay about My Mother, a Holocaust Sorvivor |
$29
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Milder, Marie |

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Hard Memories
Surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau |
N/A |
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Morris, Danny |

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Behind the Fence
Lebanon 2006
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$20 |
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Olenski, Luba |

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A Life Reclaimed
A child among the partisans |
$25 |
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Parush, Eva |

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This is my life:
From Ruske Pole with love |
$20 |
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Philips, Hartog (Harry) |

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Just Call Me Harry
Growing Up in A Dutch Village |
$25 |
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Randles, Shirley |
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No
Locked Doors
Jewish life in Shepparton |
$28 |
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Reichman Mara |

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Spared For A Purpose
The music lives on
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$25
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Reisman, Kathy |
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More Than Nine Lives |
$25
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Robin, Moshe and Stefa |
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Stepping Into Life |
$25
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Rosenberg, Elfie |
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Serry And Me
Kindertransport and Beyond
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$25
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Rosner, Maurie |
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The
Bell Tolls For Thee
and Other Short Stories |
$25
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Roth, Marianne |
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An Intricate Collage |
$20
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Rubin, Wolf |
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Wolf: Surviving By Art |
$25 |
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Sandy. Kitty |

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Stormy Weather
A life's journey from Budapest to Melbourne |
$25 |
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Schimmel, Marilyn
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Pola's Story
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$25
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Schreiber, Vera |
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The Porcelain Doll |
$22 |
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Schwartz, Schmul |
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Under Red Skies
Dreams and
reality |
$20
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Schwarz, Tess |
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The First Forty Families
Bringing My Family Tree and Forest to Life |
$30 |
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Searle, Freda |
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Memory's Wings And Apron Strings |
$20
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Sharpe, Annita |

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Escape to Les Vignes A childhood in
Nazi-occupied France |
$25 |
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Skall, Lily |
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My Story |
$20 |
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Speiser, Trude |

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Trude's
Story
A journey from Vienna
via Shanghai to Melbourne |
N/A |
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Steinbok, Fela |

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My Life
Surviving
in Russia |
$25 |
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Stern, Max |
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My Stamp on Life |
$25 |
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Eva
Urbach |

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Through Coloured Glass
Reflections on my changing world |
$25 |
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van Rijsdijk, Mink |

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The Shoes of a Foundling
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$25 |
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Wright, Sue |

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A Ballad by Johannes Brahms
A journey to understand a childhood in Vienna shattered by Nazism |
$25 |
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Wroby, Godel |
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My Battle for
Survival
From Mlyny
to Melbourne |
$25 |
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Zylberman, Halina |
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Swimming Under Water |
$25
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