People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

16 September, 1936
Lodz, Poland

Death

12 April, 2024 (aged 87)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Polish

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Jewish

Education

• Princes Hill High School (Melbourne)
• University High School (Melbourne)
• Lady Gowrie Child Centre
• Princes Hill Primary School (Carlton, Melbourne)
• University of London
• University of Melbourne

Occupation

• academic
• folklorist
• historian (general)
• human rights activist
• schoolteacher
• social historian

Awards

• Iona and Peter Opie Prize
• Victorian Honour Roll of Women
• Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize
• Member of the Order of Australia

Key Organisations

• Australian Folklife Association
• Victorian Council for Civil Liberties
• Victorian Folklife Association
• Victorian Free Speech Committee
• Victorian Friends of the ABC
• Museum Victoria
• Australian Jewish Democratic Society
• Folklore Fellows
• Befriend a Child in Detention
• ABC Friends

Workplaces

• Institute of Early Childhood Development
• Macleod High School
• Princes Hill High School (Melbourne)
• University of Melbourne