Henry R Lew

The Five Walking Sticks describes the life of Maurice Brodzky, a man who was very well known in Melbourne from 1885 to 1903. His story is most unusual and certainly more fascinating than many others that relate to the rich and famous, and the reader certainly does not miss out on the rich and famous by travelling through the pages of Maurice's life. But The Five Walking Sticks is much more than the life of a solitary human being. It is a course of study, a curriculum of history,...

This book is a retrieved version of the first Holocaust memoir published in Australia, in 1948. It is also one of the earliest memoirs ever written. The original book was written in Yiddish. It has now been adapted into English, with the voluntary assistance of 25 righteous translators, worldwide, a separate story in itself, which is also covered in the book. Even the most famous memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel only gained significant recognition after they were translated into English...

An exceptional book about extraordinary people living in extraordinary times. My only regret on completing it is that I have not met any of them personally.&apos; Christopher Bantick<br /> <br />A biography of Lonek Lew, the author&apos;s father, told through the lives of over twenty people he was friendly or associated with, a number of whom were historical figures.<br /> <br />Using his father&apos;s clear and detailed accounts of his life in pre-war Poland, the...