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Rachelle Unreich

Rachelle Unreich

Rachelle Unreich is a freelance writer and the author of A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust.

Mira is pictured with her parents Genya and Dolfie Blumenstock, her older brother Yanchi and their aunt Olga. Only Mira survived the Holocaust. Dolfie is buried in his home town of Spisska Stara Ves in Slovakia. Mira Unreich’s daughters Rachelle, Lilianne and Jeannette arranged for stones of remembrance -- “Stolpersteine” -- to be laid in the village.

Nazis at the door: The night my family was torn apart, and how their town honoured them

Tracing their mother’s story from a Slovakian village to the death camps of Poland, Rachelle Unreich and her sisters set down stones of remembrance – and found defiance, triumph and kinship.

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We have seen the darkness, but if kindness is a light, Australia is glowing

This week I see Israeli flags everywhere, yet I can’t forget that if I’d carried one through the streets last week it would have been seen by some as an incendiary act.

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