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Oct 28, 2023
Interview with
Jo Good

BBC Radio

Sep 29, 2024

Irena's Gift: Meticulously researched, but reads like fiction.

Jerusalem Post review

Irena's Gift: Meticulously researched, but reads like fiction.
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Sep 23, 2024

Shocking Secrets Revealed After Infant Survives the Holocaust

CBN News Interview

Shocking Secrets Revealed After Infant Survives the Holocaust
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Jul 23, 2024

Starred Review: "A beautifully written testimony to the power of memoir to heal."

BookPage trade review

Starred Review: "A beautifully written testimony to the power of memoir to heal."
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Jul 23, 2024

Irena’s Gift tries to untangle the web of inherited trauma

The Forward review

Irena’s Gift tries to untangle the web of inherited trauma
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Jul 22, 2024

Ire­na’s Gift: "Highly readable story about strength & survival."

Jewish Book Council Review

Ire­na’s Gift: "Highly readable story about strength & survival."
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Jul 10, 2024

TV interview with Kelly Wright

America's Hope Interview

TV interview with Kelly Wright
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Jan 24, 2024

Karen Kirsten searches for the Sisters who saved her mother's life.

PBS, World Channel (first story, 0.58 mark)

Karen Kirsten searches for the Sisters who saved her mother's life.
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Sep 1, 2023

Why the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by the Shoah are still living with the trauma.

Jewish Chronicle (UK), article

Why the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by the Shoah are still living with the trauma.
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Aug 23, 2023

Interview with Selina MacKenzie

Talk Radio Europe

Interview with Selina MacKenzie
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Aug 16, 2023

Spotlight on Karen Kirsten

Who magazine, article

Spotlight on Karen Kirsten

Aug 12, 2023

Notable Books: Irena's Gift

The Australian, review: "Recommended for understanding family inheritances, history's living legacies, and intergenerational trauma."

Notable Books: Irena's Gift

Aug 5, 2023

Interview with David Griffiths

Subculture, podcast

Interview with David Griffiths
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Jul 28, 2023

Karen Kirsten is the author of Irena's Gift

The Age (Melbourne), Writer's Corner

Karen Kirsten is the author of Irena's Gift

Jul 27, 2023

Karen's mum was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. She found out years later in a letter.

Mamamia, article

Karen's mum was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. She found out years later in a letter.
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Jul 21, 2023

Unravelling family secrets

The Australian Jewish News, article

Unravelling family secrets
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Jul 21, 2023

Irena's Gift: a daughter's journey to understand her mother's war torn childhood

ABC National Radio, interview

Irena's Gift: a daughter's journey to understand her mother's war torn childhood
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Jul 18, 2023

Irena's Gift: A Must-Read Memoir

Better Reading, review

Irena's Gift: A Must-Read Memoir
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Jul 17, 2023

Deborah Knight. Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival

2GB Sydney interview

Deborah Knight. Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival
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Jul 15, 2023

WWII survivor saved by a backpack

New Idea magazine, article

WWII survivor saved by a backpack
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Jul 15, 2023

I have been silent for so many years’: The revelation Joasia never expected

Sydney Morning Herald, The Age & Brisbane Times, book extract

I have been silent for so many years’: The revelation Joasia never expected
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