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'Factor speaks of her Jewish family arriving in Australia from Poland at the age of 2 fleeing Nazi Germany; how her mother arrived on Black Friday, 1939 amidst devastating bushfires; her family background; Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer; settling Carlton, Vic. ; Australian culture of the 1930s; her first memories of Australia; Jewish social life in Victoria including the Peretz School, which taught Yiddish; the difficulties of learning Hebrew; her foster sister, Jacqueline; her attendance at a selective university high school from 1951-1954; how she began writing at school; receiving a government scholarship; her increasing political activism and joining the Kadimah Youth Group from which she learnt many folk songs; her studies in English and History.' (Trove)
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Recorded on Mar. 6 & 9, Oct. 22, 24 & 26, Nov. 5, 9 & 12 2001, and 22 Feb. and 20 Sept. 2002 in Melbourne, Vic. Digital master available ; National Library of Australia ; nla.obj-207283921. Timed summary available and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 363 leaves)