Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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