Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I join the member for Casey and the member for Sturt in their condolences to the Kalman family—to Harvey, Rachel, Rosalie and Lisa. I know many of these survivors, as many of them live in my electorate, and to lose the youngest survivor of Bergen-Belsen reminds me of the truth of what the member for Casey has said. Their memory will live on through their spectacularly successful lives in Australia. I thought it was remarkable, on reading Fay Burstin’s obituary in the Herald Sun, that Peretz had had such a successful sporting life. Imagine being a survivor of a concentration camp from the age of three to eight and then playing football for university high, playing B-grade amateurs for the Brunswick Amateurs and being the best and fairest in his first season. What a remarkable thing that says about Australia. I thank the member for Newcastle for letting me too express my condolences.

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