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  • Talinga

    The house that Dad built and its role in saving K'gari

    Talinga was Margaret Sinclair's home away from home for nearly five decades - a place of solace, connection and inspiration.Built by her parents, Beryl and Charlie Sinclair, on the pristine shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), Talinga became more than a family retreat; it became the heart of a movement to preserve one of Australia's most treasured landscapes.In this deeply personal memoir, Margaret ... Read more

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  • Through the Morgue Door

    One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second year of studying medicine. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted by Petain’s government. Her father had been arrested and interned at the Drancy detention camp and Brull ... Read more

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  • Through the Morgue Door

    One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second year of studying medicine. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted by Petain’s government. Her father had been arrested and interned at the Drancy detention camp and Brull ... Read more

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