Introducing - Mates Under Fire

This Australian bush fire season has been unprecedented. In this podcast you will hear harrowing accounts of survival and the incredible acts of bravery and kindness which are helping the town of Malua Bay in southern New South Wales on the path to recovery. A new episode is released every Friday a…

Yvonne's Story

It started with Yvonne Engleman noticing her school friends had started to treat her 'like she was invisible'. But the growing scourge of antisemitism soon gave way to far worse as Jews were legislated against, 'selected' for enforced labour and transported to camps. Yvonne, 15, found herself alone…

Olga's Story

The sole survivor from her family, Olga Horak details the downward spiral of Jews living in Bratislava from comfortable, happy lives to a persecuted, terrorised minority, eventually transported to the death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Olga married after the war and immigrated to Australia…

Jack's Story

The tattoo on Jack Meister's arm reads B488. The now 89-year-old recalls the day in Auschwitz when it was imprinted on him as a 10-year-old boy. Having been rounded up with other Jews from his hometown of Kielce in Poland he was confined to a ghetto before being sent to Auschwitz, but survived the …

Paul's Story

At the age of six Paul Drexler was transported with his mother to Hitler's show camp Theresienstadt, where the Red Cross and the rest of the world was tricked into believing Jews were being treated humanely. In reality it was a squalid ghetto, but one nonetheless designed to obscure the far greater…