Survivors
Shemi Kahn, 5, at the Chanukah event minutes before the shooting.
December 17, 2025, 4:15 pm
‘All I want to do is protect my baby’
Survivors recount instinctive acts of protection, prayer and courage amid the Bondi attack.
By AJN STAFF
Cantor Zvi Teichtal sings El Malei Rachamim alongside the six survivors who lit candles.
April 28, 2025, 4:46 pm
A moving Holocaust commemoration in Sydney
'Standing on the shoulders of our Shoah survivors at this uncertain moment, we must recommit ourselves to living up to their example,' NSW JBD president says
By Gareth Narunsky
Esther Wise (centre) at the premier screening of her documentary "Never Forget" with her daughters Ruth Shafir and Brenda Ross.
July 27, 2023, 10:51 am
Survivor’s story becomes part of VCE curriculum
She tore up every photo, identification card and anything else she had into tiny pieces and put it in the toilet of the train she was on in France. But she kept the yellow star she had to wear during the war in France, showing that she was "juif" (a Jew).
By Mia Gardiner
Horst Eisfelder.
June 4, 2023, 6:59 am
Lens on wartime Shanghai
Horst Eisfelder is being remembered for his comprehensive photography in the ghetto, which has created a record for posterity.
By Peter Kohn
Lotti Tugendhaft celebrating Purim at Emmy Monash Aged Care in 2018. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 21, 2023, 7:04 am
Survivor mourned at 102
Before the Communists swept across China in 1949, Lotti and Josef left for Australia. Lotti took part in the family's fashion business Delphine for over 20 years
By Peter Kohn
Holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel OAM recording survivor testimony at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Photo: MHM.
March 30, 2023, 11:36 am
Museum calls for more survivor stories
"...there was a mindset that if you were not in a camp, you were not a survivor; many people who fled Nazi rule from 1933 onwards did not consider themselves a survivor,"
By Mia Gardiner
Child survivor of the Holocaust Nina Basset. Photo: AJN file
January 19, 2023, 9:54 am
‘Disappointing on many levels’
Holocaust survivors have responded to NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet's admission that he wore a Nazi uniform.
By CARLY ADNO & MIA GARDINER
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