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 war after transferring to the less egregious Buna concentration camp. He was liberated in April 1945 from Buchenwald and migrated to Australia after the war. 
 

Georgia Hing of the Daily Telegraph interviews Sydney-based Holocaust survivors Olga Horak, Paul Drexler, Yvonne Engleman and Jack Meister.

I, Witness

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...

Jack's Story

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 afternoon, search Mates Under Fire and follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 
 

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 rec...

Introducing - Mates Under Fire

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 in Auschwitz and marked for death by sadistic camp physician Dr Joseph Mengele. Yvonne made her way to Australia after the war and now volunteers at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

It started with Yvonne Engleman noticing her school friends had started to treat her 'like she was invisible'. But the growing scourge...

Yvonne'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 with her husband in 1949. 
 

The sole survivor from her family, Olga Horak details the downward spiral of Jews living in Bratislava from comfortable, happy lives to...

Jack's Story

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