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Collected Item: “Jewish Melbourne: writings by Child Survivors of the Holocaust during Covid times”

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Jewish Melbourne: writings by Child Survivors of the Holocaust during Covid times

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This is a collection of writings related to the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Melbourne Group

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This collection of writings was assembled by Viv Parry (Chairperson for the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Melbourne Group) for submission to the archive. It contains the following:
'A Point in Time', a recent article that Viv Parry was asked to write for the New Year Magazine for The Ark Synagogue, Hawthorn

Connections (August 2020) is a newsletter edited by Viv Parry for the Child Survivors of the Holocaust (CSH) Melbourne Group. In this newsletter there are 9 individual contributions from CSH in answer to her personal request to "tell us how you are travelling at the moment during this unprecedented time?" Viv made no suggestions, asking only that they addressed the group (265 CSH members) and shared their thoughts at whatever level they found personally relevant to themselves.

'Child Survivors, Corona' is an article written by Dr Paul Valant's for Connections, published in April 2020. A second article on the topic appears in the August edition of the newsletter.

An email from Stefanie Selzer, dated 31.7.2020. Stefanie is the World Federation Of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants N.Y, President and Claims Conference representative. Stefanie forwarded our Connections Newsletter to the other CSH groups in the US including Canada where Mark Elster felt compelled to reply (also included in the same document).

These documents together create a story of a unique group of people who are supporting each other at this difficult time, with a remarkably positive attitude.

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#Holocaust, #Melbourne, #ChildSurvivors, #Writing, #Reflection

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Viv Parry, Paul Valent, and others

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2020
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