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There are only two things you’re likely to encounter in India as much as Delhi belly: ubiquitous copies of Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling

There are only two things you’re likely to encounter in India as much as Delhi belly: ubiquitous copies of Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling

From the archives: Holocaust survivor and dedicated Melbourne Holocaust Museum volunteer Phillip Maisel died on Tuesday, eight days after celebrating his 100th birthday with twin sister Bella Hirshorn. Good Weekend has republished this article, which tells the story of how Phillip lost Bella during the war, and how they found each other again by sheer chance.

Normal text size Very large text size In the spring of 1944, Phillip Maisel had reached the lowest ebb of his life. Held captive in an Estonian labour camp, the 21-year-old Polish-born Jew and his fellow inmates were forced, every Sunday, to haul a pile of rocks from one end of an icy field to the other, back and forth, over and over again. It was back-breaking work, made even more miserable by their gnawing hunger and perilously weak physical states. The task had no practical purpose, since th...

San Diego Jewish World Main Menu May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 / 1 Comment The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku; HarperCollins Publishers © 2021; ISBN 9780063-097681; 195 pages, $24.99. By Donald H. Harrison Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This memoir by Australian centenarian Eddie Jaku departs from memoirs by other Holocaust survivors in its contemplation of the role of friendship in enabling prisoners of Nazi concentration camps t...