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 endured those years, and how they lived long after them.

Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

Fiona Harari Launches her book - We are Here

Henry Rosenbloom talks about his book Miracles Do Happen at the 2017 Shalom | Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

Henry Rosenbloom - Miracles Do Happen

Rachel Seiffert talks about her book , A Boy in Winter at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

Rachel Seiffert - A Boy in Winter

John Safran  talks about his book Depends What you Mean by Extremist at the 2017 Shalom | Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

John Safran - Depends What you Mean by Extremist

Jessica Friedmann chats about her book, Things That Helped at The Shalom Sydney Writers Festival of 2017.

Jessica Friedmann - Things That Helped

Lexi Landsman talks about her latest novel - The Perfect Couple at Sydney Shalom Jewish Writers Festival 2017

Lexi Landsman - The Perfect Couple

Amy Gottlieb talks about her book The Beautiful Possible at the 2017 Shalom |Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

Amy Gottlieb - The Beautiful Possible

Mark Tedeschi  discussed his latest true crime novel Murder at Myall Creek at the Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival of 2017.

Mark Tedeschi - Murder at Myall Creek

Bram Presser discusses his debut novel – The Book of Dirt at the 2017 Shalom | Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

Bram Presser - The Book of Dirt

Mark Dapin talks about his latest book examining Australian Jews in the military - Jewish Anzacs

Mark Dapin - Jewish Anzacs

As part  of the Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers festival, Mark Baker discusses his latest book Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love

Mark Baker - Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love

The 2017 Shalom | Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) will took place on August 26 – 27,2017 at Waverley Library, Bondi Junction. This podcast has interviews with some of the authors presenting at the festival. The festival celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary Jewish writing from around the world. It features authors who are Jewish or whose books are of Jewish interest and includes novelists, journalists, screenwriters, performers and writers of nonfiction. It is a festival of ideas, where books are just the beginning.

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Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

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