Kosher Koala, NOV 2018
Greta Davis writes of her experience at the 2018 IAJGS conference in Warsaw, where she presented a session about the experience of Polish migrants to Australia through the lens of her own family; and Dani Haski examines some of the moral and ethical dilemmas posed by the rapid advancement in commercial DNA analysis services and the vast datasets contained on genealogical websites.
In news we look at:
• the newly dedicated war memorial in Canberra, honouring fallen Jewish soldiers who fought for Australia;
• efforts by the European Jewish Cemetery Initiative to use aerial photographs taken by the Luftwaffe before bombing raids in Europe to find lost landmarks; and
• the work of a young New Zealand student to restore the identities of Jews buried in Auckland’s oldest cemetery.
In Sledgehammer, Robyn Dryen, describes how she discovered the identities of her grandfather’s cousin’s siblings in an unexpected place.
And In DIY we take a close look at the National Archives of Australia.
