Eighty-one-year-old human rights activist Halina Wagowska survived Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps in her early teens before immigrating to Australia. Over the years she has frequently testified to the consequences of prejudice she witnessed: she has provided material for Thomas Keneally’s book on Schindler; and for Spielberg’s Shoah institute, via the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, as well as presented at international psychology conferences as a child survivor. She is a human rights activist and has run Homeplus Living, a charity that ran two houses in Mitcham and Ashwood for six years for underprivileged and homeless youths. Her book for Hardie Grant, The Testimony, is receiving great reviews and recognition. You can read some of them here: http://bookclub.hardiegrant.com.au/
Check out the book trailer for The Testimony here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6slYy-igyA