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AARONS, Mark

Biographical credits
Mark Aarons is a former ABC producer whose 1986 radio documentary series "Nazis in Australia" led to Australia's modern War Crimes legislation and to the formation of the
Special Investigations Unit to gather evidence against suspected Nazi war criminals in Australia.

Source:
http://www.holocaust.com.au/credits.htm

Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia (1989),
Ratlines: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets (1991, with John Loftus),
East Timor: A Western Made Tragedy (1992, with Robert Domm), and
The Secret War Against the Jews (1994, with John Loftus).


UNHOLY TRINITY: The Vatican, The Nazis, & Soviet Intelligence
Pub by St.Martins Press [1991]
http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/utbook.html

The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People.

New York: St.Martin's Press, 1994. 658 pages.
http://www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin1.cgi/EE

Fingering the SS
Article in Australia Israel Review 1997
http://www.join.org.au/aijac/97-10-01/finger.htm

TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
Broadcast: 21/05/01
War Criminals, Welcome
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s300455.htm

ABRAMI, Janka 'Zat Izz Apples, Sir' (1986)  
ABRAMOVICH, Dvir    
ADLER, Jacques Face à la Persécution: Les organisations juives de Paris de 1940 à 1944.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1985.

The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution:
Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

http://www.ushmm.org/research/jrbiblio/france.htm

 
ADLER, Louise    
AFTERMAN, Allen
(1941-1992)

Biographical notes
http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/afterman.html

Tales of the Tzaddikim
http://hasidicstories.com/Articles/Hasidic_Theories/tzaddikim.html

THE MAZE ROSE: Poems 1970-1973.
Melbourne, Sun Books. 1974. 52pp. 8vo. Paperback. 0725101857 JPY 4500
http://www.fujiinfomatics.com/newpage42.htm

'In Asia Minor' Purple Adam: Poems 1974-1979
Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson
http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au/pub/series/2/asia.html

 

U.S. SECURITIES REGULATION OF FOREIGN ISSUERS:
FINANCIAL REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE MANUAL
ALLAN B. AFTERMAN -- THE HAGUE: KLUWER LAW INTERNATIONAL,
C1997 XXXV, 878 P. 332.63(73) AFT (1436439)
http://www.tau.ac.il/lawlib/library/october.html

 
AJZENBUD, Moshe Alein in Gezeml, Lonely in a Crowd. Melbourne, 1970.
The Commissar Took Care. Translated by Leah Ajzenbud. Melbourne (Globe Press), 1986.
Gelebt Hinter Kratn, Lived Behind Bars. Buenos Aires (Yidbuch) 1956.
Niesvizher Yidn. Niesvizh's Jews. Short stories, Melbourne, 1965.
Nusach Y. Rapoport. Y. Rapoport's Style. Melbourne, 1967.
Yugneleche Blondzenishn. Dilemmas of Youth. Melbourne, 1973.

http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/judaica/catalog/yiddish.html

 
ALEXANDER, Goldie    
ARMSTRONG, Diane http://www.jewishaustralia.com/dianearmstrong.htm  
ASH, Hilary    
ATLAS, Zygfryd Just One Life (1999)  
BAKER, Mark Raphael

Biography
http://dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=686

The Fiftieth Gate
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/mini9702.html

 
BENNETT, Samuel    
BIDERMAN, Abraham

The World of My Past
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0646230190/inktomi-
df1-2-20/102-3605649-1683348

 
BLAY, Anna Rosner Sister Sister
The story of two sisters who survived the concentration camps.
Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd  December 1998
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0868066478/qid%3D979529186/sr%3D1-1/ref%3Dsc%5Fb%5F1/104-4439359-6798335/resourcesforch05/102-3605649-1683348

 
BLINT, Wolf    
BLOCH, Felicity Review of Antonia Finnane's Far From Where?
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Aug99/blo.html

Review of Cafe Scheherazade, by Arnold Zable
http://www.theage.com.au/books/2001/02/26/FFX7YK81NJC.html
 
BOAS, Bernard Biographical details
http://www.chretiens-et-juifs.org/CV_Auteurs_Personalites/Auteurs.htm
 
BRASCH, Rabbi Dr Rudolph


Biographical details
http://www.thei.aust.com/sydney/biographies/brasch.html

 
BRETT, Doris Eating the Underworld
http://www.jewishaustralia.com/dorisbrett.htm
 
BRETT, Lily    
BROOK, Steve    
BUCKRICH, Judith Raphael George Turner: A Life

The Afterward in Dreaming Down-Under,
ed. Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, HarperCollins/Voyager Australis, 1998
http://www.locusmag.com/index//t421.html#A40884

She’s Fantastical ed. Lucy Sussex & Judith Raphael Buckrich
Sybylla Feminist Press. Anthology of 21 stories and three poems of
Australian women’s speculative fiction, magical realism, and fantasy.
http://www.locusmag.com/index//t358.html#A35994

Melbourne's Grand Boulevard The Story of St Kilda Road
Australia, State Library of Victoria, 1996 4to, 228pp inc index.
http://www.ilabdatabase.com/php/catalogues.php3?custnr=&membernr=
29&catnr=326&pg=2&br=&lang=


 
CARRADY, Felix    
COHEN, Bernard

Biographical details
http://dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=722

The Blindman's Hat
http://www.bookworm.com.au/au000139.htm

 
COHEN, Dawn    
COLLINS, Alan

A Promised Land
http://www.jewishaustralia.com/alancollins.htm

 
COLLINS, Eva    
COOPER, Leo

In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle:
The Poles, the Holocaust and beyond

http://www.jewishaustralia.com/leo-cooper.htm

 
CURZON, David Modern poems on the Bible: An anthology
http://einsys.einpgh.org/MARION/ACF-8327

View From Jacobs Ladder: One Hundred Midrashim
http://www.netstoreusa.com/rkbooks/082/0827605684.shtml

 
CYKIERT, Abraham

Biographical details
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/preview/nov96/

 

The Emperor of the Ghetto is
A one-man play which deals with Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Jewish Leader of the Ghetto of Lodz and his dilemmas in dealing with the Nazis.

It was first performed at the Caulfield Arts Centre in 1993, followed by seasons at the George Fairfax Studio (Victorian Arts Centre), St Martin's, the Adelaide Fringe and Tasmania as well as performances in over seventy schools in Victoria and South Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/preview/nov96/block42.htm

LETTER FROM POLAND
Death Camp Less Traveled: Silent Screams of Belzec

http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.04.20/news4.html

 
DALOS, Gyorgy Guest From The Future: Anna Akhmatova And Isaiah Berlin
http://www.netstoreusa.com/babooks/037/0374527202.shtml

Reviews
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/
0374527202/reviews/102-3605649-1683348#03745272025121


 
DOWSE, Sara

Biographical details
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0024b.htm

Publications
http://dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=237

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/
index=books&field-author=Dowse%2C%20Sara/102-3605649-1683348

 

 
ELISHA, Ron

Playwright.

CHOICE
EINSTEIN
ESTERHAZ
IN DUTY BOUND
http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/library/resource/hsce2h.htm#elisha


GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
PAX AMERICANA
SAFE HOUSE
THE LEVINE COMEDY
TWO

 
ELLIOTT, Marietta    
ENCEL, Sol

Sociologist.
Biographical details
http://www.cota.org.au/congress.htm#KEYNOTE%20SPEAKERS

Articles:

http://coss.net.au/cgi-bin/advsearch.pl?author=Encel&author=&author=Sol&collection=library

"Public Perceptions of the Public Administrator"
,
Australian Journal of Public Administration, XL (3),
September: 187-200. Daniel, Ann and Encel, Sol (1981)

Books

Out of the Doll’s House: Women in the Public Sphere.
(with Dorothy Campbell) Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. 1991

 
ENGELMAN, Matylda

Journey without end : an autobiography
Melbourne : Lantana, 1977.

The end of the journey : concluding Journey without end, an autobiography
Melbourne : Lantana, 1978.

 
EPSTEIN, Jan Film writer, reviewer:
"Cinema Papers", "Australian Jewish News", ABC ("filmic representation of history" forum)

Articles
1992. 'Australian Films at Cannes'. Cinema Papers. n. 89 (August).

 
ERLICH, Rita Details coming soon  
FACTOR, June

Biographical details
http://dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=85

Books
http://www.bryson.com.au/cfactor.html

http://www.mindbodyspirit.com.au/auth/f/factorj.htm

Kidspeak
http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/kidspeak/

 
FAGENBLAT, Michael    
FALK, Barbara    
FEIN, Yvonne    
FENIGER, Saba    
FIENBERG, Anna    
FIRESTONE, Andrew    
FISHER, Mary    
FREADMAN, Richard    
FREIBERG, Freda    
FREIMAN, Marcelle    
FRYDMAN, Gloria    
GAWENDA, Michael Biography on The Age website
 
GELBACH, Igor    
GETLER, Leon    
GINGOLD, Robert    
GLAS-WIENER, Sheva    
GLEITZMAN, Morris The Morris Gleitzman website
http://www.morrisgleitzman.com/fst_contents.html

 
GOLD, Alan

Biographical details and links to all his books
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/authors/author_profile.cfm?Author=GOLD__ALAN

 
GOLDBLOOM, Sandra    
GOLDMAN, Liz    
GOLDSMITH, Andrea    
GOLVAN, Colin    
GOULD, Lucy    
GOULD, Raya    
GRADMAN, Maurice    
GRAY, Gary    
GRINBLAT, Kathy Biographical details
Kathy was born in Paris, France, to Alexander and Marika Weinberger, young
Holocaust survivors who had left their native Czechoslovakia in 1947. The
family emigrated to Australia in 1950, and settled in Brisbane, where a
second daughter, Yvonne, was born. Since graduating from the University of
Sydney in 1971, Kathy has taught English and Literature at Moriah College,
Sydney, and Beth Rivkah Ladies' College, Melbourne.

Kathy has just published her first book, "Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation" University of Western Australia Press in association with Benchmark
Publications (2002).
 
HALPERN, Frederick    
HAMMER, Gael    
HOFFMANN, Catherine    
HOLKNER, Jean    
INDYK, Martin Jewish Virtual Library biography  
INGLIS, Amirah    
IRLICHT, Sylvia    
JACOBSON, Lisa    
JAKUBOWICZ, Andrew Publications  
KAMINSKY, Leah    
KANATOPSKY, Dulcie    
KARPIN, Matthew    
KATZ, Danny    
KESSLER, Clive    
KEESING, Nancy    
KIRBY, Liat    
KOHN, Itzhak    
KOHN, Rachael    
KORDIN, Galina    
KOVAL, Ramona    
KRAMER, Tom From Emancipation to Catastrophe. The Rise and Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry.
University Press of America

Contributor "Children of the Shadows"
 
KROLL, Jeri    
LANDAU, Melanie    
LEW, Henry R    
LEWIN, Ben    
LEWIN, Mordechai Yankel    
LEWITT, Maria    
LIBERMAN, Serge    
LICHTENSTEIN, Bronwen    
LIGHT, Dr Helen    
LIPSKI, Sam    
LISIEUX, Mickey    
LURIE, Morris    
LUSTIG, Ian    
MANNE, Robert Publications  
MARKS, Harry    
MARKUS, Andrew    
MARKS, Stan    
Mendes, Philip    
MARTIN, David    
MILLER, Deborah    
MORGAN, Mal    
MOW-JOFFE, Leah    
OSTROW, Ruth    
PERLMAN, Elliot    
PIZER, Marjorie    
PORTER, Dorothy    
RANKI, Vera Publications  
REICH, Channan    
REITER, David P    
RIEMER, Andrew    
RODRIGUEZ, Judith    
ROSENBERG, Jacob G.    
ROSENBLOOM, Felix    
ROSENTHAL, Lesley    
ROTHBERG, Pauline    
ROTHBERG, Yetta    
ROTHFIELD, Norman    
RUBINSTEIN, Bill & Hilary    
RUTLAND, Suzanne D.    
SAFRANSKY, Rosa Short-story writer  
SAGE, Alex    
SALZMAN, Paul    
Selinger-Morris, Samantha    
SCWARTZ, Morry

Redmond Barry Lecture 2005

Sydney Morning Herald article June 2004

 
SHAIAK, Gedaliah    
SILVER, Leon    
SINGER, Ivan    
SINGER, Peter    
SKOVRON, Alex  
STONE, Deborah  
SVORAY, Yehuda    
SWAIN, David    
SWAN, Norman    
SZEGO, George    
TATZ, Colin    
ULMAN, Vivienne ----  
VARGA, Susan

Biographical notes
Varga was born in 1943 in Hungary, and left when she was just five years old. She is currently a lawyer and journalist, and has written two books:

"Heddy and Me"

"Happy Families" Hodder Headline Australia (1999)

Sources:
http://www.dymocks.com.au/asp/full_details.asp?isbn=0733610005

http://www.hungary.com/hungq/no146/p121.html

 
VEROLME, Hetty ----  
VERSTANDIG, Mark

Biographical notes
Mark was born in Mielec, Poland, before the Holocaust. He is now in his 80's, and lives in Melbourne. His book, "I Rest My Case" Melbourne University Press (Melbourne), was written in Yiddish and translated to English by his daughter, Felicity Verstandig.

Sources:
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kolbuszowa/bibliography3.html

http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0_522_84781_1.html

http://www.tmx.com.au/join/letters/shoah98.htm

 
VISONTAY, Michael    
WAJNRYB, Ruth Sydney Morning Herald articles

Dr Ruth Wajnryb talks about her book

 
WOLSKI, Nathan    
WYNHAUSEN, Elisabeth    
ZABLE, Arnold

Biographical notes
Born 1947 in Wellington, New Zealand, Arnold Zable's parents had emigrated from Poland in the 1930's. He grew up in Carlton, Victoria, and studied at Melbourne University and Columbia University. Arnold has travelled and worked in Asia, China, India, Europe, the USA, Papua New Guinea, and has taught at Melbourne University. He has taught English to children and adult migrants, written and directed a film, written for theatre, and co-edits the "Melbourne Chronical", an English-Yiddish periodical. He also regularly writes for "The Age" newspaper, Melbourne. In 1991, Arnold was awarded the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in the NSW State Literary Awards, and the National Book Council Lysbeth Cohen Award.

He has written:

"Glenn's Story" (film script, 1979)

"Clown Boy" (children's book, 1982)

"The River Man" (children's book, 1982)

"Jewels and Ashes" (1991)

"Wanderers and Dreamers: Tales of Yidish Theatre in Australia"

"The Fig Tree" (2002)

Sources:
http://dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=1091

http://www.bookedout.com.au/authors/Arnold_Zable/

 
ZARESKY, Joseph ----  
ZBAR, Avram ----  
ZWI, Rose

Biographical notes
Born in Mexico between 1926 and 1930. Zwi moved with her parents to South Africa in 1930. They were originally from Lithuania. In 1949, she made Aliyah to Israel in an effort to move away from Apartheid, spent some time in London, and then moved back to South Africa in 1953. Zwi graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) in 1967 with an Honours degree in English Literature. Rose worked as book editor at Ravan Press between 1979 and 1981, and began visiting black townships to take part in illegal poetry readings. In 1988, Rose moved to Australia, where she continued publishing her books:

"Another Year in Africa" Bateleur (Johannesburg, 1980)

"The Inverted Pyramid" Ravan Press (Johannesburg, 1981)

"Exiles" Ad Donker (Craighall, South Africa, 1984)

"The Umbrella Tree" Penguin (New York, 1990)

"Safe Houses" (Spinifex, 1994), for which she won the Australian Human Rights Award for Literature

"Last Walk in Naryshkin Park" (Spinifex 1998)

Rose has also written short stories, including "Stones", which won the Thomas Pringle award for best short story.

Sources:
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/ZwiEN.html

http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMECalireEN.html

http://www.tmx.com.au/join/profiles/rosezwi.htm

 
ZWICKY, Fay Biographical notes
Fay was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1933. She graduated from the
University of Melbourne with an MA, and began publishing poems and short
stories in the 1950's. She had a career as a concernt pianist for several
years, and then took up a position as Senior Lecturer at the University of
Western Australia in their English department from 1972 to 1987. Zwicky was
a member of the Literature Board. In 1982, Zwicky was writer-in-residence at
Macquarie University (Sydney). In 1984, she was writer-in-residence at
Rollins College in Florida (USA), and in 1985, moved to LaTrobe University
(Melbourne).

Zwicky has worked overseas in such places as Indonesia, Europe
and America. Zwicky received the New South Wales Premier's Award in 1982,
and the Western Australian Premier's Award in 1991 for poetry. She has
published approximately 259 works, including reviews, criticisms, poetry,
and short stories. Some of her most recognised works include:

"Isaac Bable's Fiddle" (Poetry, 1975)
"Kaddish and Other Poems" (Poetry, 1982)
"Journeys: Poetry of Judith Wright, Rosemary Hobson, Gwen Harwood and
Dorothy Hewitt" (Editor, 1982)
"The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984"
(Critical Essays, 1986)
"Fay Zwicky: Poems 1970-1992" (1993)
"The Gatekeeper's Wife" (1998)

Sources:
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&adentId=A(%2BL

http://cf.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers.cfm?id=156

 

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