TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harari,Fiona
TI  - We are here: talking with Australia's oldest holocaust survivors 
SN  - 9781925322651
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Brunswick, Victoria
PB  - Scribe Publications
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Jews
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
N2  - These are the last adult witnesses — in their own words.When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of ‘inferior’ groups. His goal included the eradication of European Jewry, a plan that would ultimately claim six million lives. By 1945, almost two in three European Jews were dead. So were millions of other victims of Nazism.For those who survived, liberation came with the enormous weight of guilt and memory as they began the second part of their lives, often in faraway places such as Australia, which would become home to one of the world’s highest per capita communities of Holocaust survivors.Now the last of those adult survivors have reached an age once considered unattainable. They outlasted Nazism, and today, in their tenth and eleventh decades, have outlived most of their contemporaries. Eighteen of these Australians, originally from all over Europe, tell what it is like to have lived through those years, and long after them
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