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'Write Your Story' Program The 'Write Your Story' program is a well known cultural activity of Makor Library. 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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Adele Hulse, the Write Your Story program coordinator, has been working with Makor for 10 years. She runs the writing group at the library on Wednesdays from 2.00pm to 4.00pm and has edited many of the Write Your Story books. Adele wrote a column in The Age newspaper for over 25 years and has published 3 books in her own right. Her 4th book is currently being prepared for publication in the United States. |
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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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Memory Guide My Hand Volume 6: Building a Nation An anthology of personal stories of life in Israel by current and former members of the Melbourne Jewish community |
$36 | |
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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 | |
| Abish, Yona |
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A Family Tale From Europe to Israel and Australia |
N/A |
| Ajzen, Chaim |
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Chaim Ajzen Remembers | $20 |
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Ajzner, Hania |
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Hania's War |
N/A
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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 |
| Antman, Fred |
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A Tale of Three Cities Berlin, Shanghi, Melbourne |
$25 |
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Arnstein, Lenke |
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Recurring Dreams |
$25 |
| Barclay, Henry |
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Run Henry Run Chemist, Legionnaire, Scout
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$25 |
| Barnett,Mel |
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Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy An East London Childhood |
$25 |
| 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 |
| Birner, John |
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Changing Landscapes The story of my formative years |
N/A |
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Boas, Bernard A.
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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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| Cher, Ursula |
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Noble is Man Kate Mendels & Leopold Herzberg
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$35 |
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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 |
| Cymbalist, Susie |
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Susie's Story Surviving in Budapest |
$25 |
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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
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$20 |
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Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’ |
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Chinese Exile
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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
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$20 |
| Fischl, Erica |
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Multiple Sclerosis The Trespasser
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$25 |
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Fisher,
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Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials |
$25 |
| Fleiszig, Laszlo and Katalin |
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Interesting Times
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N/A |
| Flicker, Felix |
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My Story
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N/A |
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Friedmann, Jakob
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Reluctant soldier
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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,
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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 |
| Grinberg, Sonia |
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Young Years in Old Europe A reconstructed diary |
$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
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$30 |
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Jawary, Sabiha |
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N/A |
| Kahan, Danny |
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Memories from a Foreign Country
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$25 |
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Kay, David as told to Ian Grinblat
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$25
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| Kempler, Sonia |
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$25 |
| Kleid, Phillip |
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
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N/A |
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Kolt, Judy |
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Tell it to the squirrels |
$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 |
N/A |
| Kynst, Chaim Benjamin |
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L Chaim Surviving Soviet labour camps to rebuild a life in postwar Poland |
$25 |
| Landau, Alice |
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Snippets from my Family Album Csepel Island to Caulfield |
N/A |
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Lawner, Helen |
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Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto A three generational perspective |
$30 |
| Lee, Des |
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I had nothing to lose A life of ups and downs |
$25 |
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Leperere, Helen |
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Memoirs And Reflections |
$11 |
| Loven, Shoshana |
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Blessings and Curses: A Life Remembered |
$20 |
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Mandelbaum, Rae |
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Echoes From The Past
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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
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$29
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| Mayer, Hania |
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A Lucky Human Being |
$25 |
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Milder, Marie |
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Hard Memories
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N/A |
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Morris, Danny |
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Behind the Fence
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$20 |
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Olenski, Luba |
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A Life Reclaimed
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$25 |
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Parush, Eva |
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This is my life:
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$20 |
| Philips, Hartog (Harry) |
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Just Call Me Harry Growing Up in A Dutch Village |
$25 |
| Randles, Shirley |
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No Locked Doors Jewish life in Shepparton |
N/A |
| 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 |
N/A
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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
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$25
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Rosner, Maurie |
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The
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$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
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N/A |
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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 |
N/A |
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Speiser, Trude |
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Trude's Story A journey from Vienna via Shanghai to Melbourne |
N/A |
| 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 |
| Tauber, Tova |
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Out of the Ashes How I survived Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Torgau Lager in Germany |
$20
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| Eva Urbach |
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Through Coloured Glass Reflections on my changing world |
$25 |
| van Rijsdijk, Mink |
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The Shoes of a Foundling | $25 |
| Wagowska, Halina |
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People and Places in War and Peace
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N/A |
| Wright, Sue |
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A Ballad by Johannes Brahms A journey to understand a childhood in Vienna shattered by Nazism |
$25 |
| 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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