Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Courage
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Courage is often depicted as a lofty virtue or is conflated with heroism but Maria Tumarkin also finds it in less spectacular and prosaic forms. With Holocaust survivor Sabina Wolanski, she considers the different forms of boldness in the hearts of ordinary people. They speak with Natasha Mitchell.

Panel  |  Nonfiction
Participants
Maria Tumarkin, Sabina Wolanski, Natasha Mitchell (facilitator)

When
Thursday, May 22 2008
14:30 - 15:30

Where
Bangarra Theatre
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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SABINA WOLANSKI (LOCAL)Wolanski, Sabina by Lewis Morley
Sabina Wolanski was the only Holocaust survivor to address the world at the opening of the controversial Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Now an Australian citizen, Sabina was just 12 when her home town in Poland was invaded by Nazis who murdered her family. Sabina was hidden in a series of homes and underground dugouts where she recorded the daily horrors in a secret diary. Sabina’s experience, and the story of her emigration to Australia, have now been told together in her recently published memoir Destined to Live, an extraordinary story of courage, forgiveness and reconciliation. She often speaks to schools and Jewish groups about her experiences during World War II.


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NATASHA MITCHELL (LOCAL)
Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning science journalist, and presenter and producer of All in the Mind on ABC Radio National. She interviews authors and thinkers worldwide on themes linking the mind, brain, human behaviour and beyond.

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MARIA TUMARKIN (INTERSTATE)Tumarkin, Maria
Maria Tumarkin is the author of Traumascapes which was shortlisted in the prize for a first book of history in the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne; her essays and reviews appear frequently in The Age, The Australian, The Monthly and other publications. Her new book is Courage. It was recently shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award.

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