The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Memoir weaving the author’s account of

weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies

woven from improbable events and profound revelations

as most of the first of the six million perished in the Ukraine long before Hitler and his lieutenants even decided on the formalities of the Final Solution

and move forward with renewed purpose

A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the St

The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Memoir weaving the author’s account ofBy Paul R. Bartrop Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the