Laura Thomas - Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • ‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening

    ‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening

    Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Join us at the Shrine for a screening of the heart-warming and eye-opening documentary film, Watandar, My Countryman. The documentary follows photographer and Human Rights Activist Muzafar Ali, who in 2015 resettled in Australia and became the first in five generations of his family to no longer be a refugee. When he discovers that Afghans
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    $10
  • ‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening

    ‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening

    Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Join us at the Shrine for a screening of the heart-warming and eye-opening documentary film, Watandar, My Countryman. The documentary follows photographer and Human Rights Activist Muzafar Ali, who in 2015 resettled in Australia and became the first in five generations of his family to no longer be a refugee. When he discovers that Afghans
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    $10
  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz book talk

    Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    At the height of the Holocaust, twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. Drawing on diverse
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    $15