Preface viiIntroducing Irma I Could Never Live There Meissen, Mutschmann, Memory The Past Informs the Present Dresden at the Corner of Jupiter & Mercury Conradis Returning to Jupiter and Mercury Daredevil The Volksgemeinschaft And All That Jazz The Night of the Glass Gesamtkunstwerk Upside Down Dynamiting and Gaslighting Alone in Dresden Terror & Humiliation The Provenance of the Yellow Star Judenfreund No Hint Department Stores and dangerous myths Dresden Vision Traces of the Perpetrators What is Friendship? The Last Hanukkah Luigi A New Mission Facetime Hellerberg This is how it was Terezin My Visit to Terezin in 2019 Q and A time at 11A Jupiter Where is Home The KibbutzThe AftermathUnraveling the UnraveledA Kafka-esque MomentPaleontologyThis Is How It WasRosa Conradi Here Lived #everyname countsBingo To Paris with LoveNew Australians Visions and SignsEpilogueAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorNotesAmsterdam Publishers Holocaust LibraryMemory. Post memory. Legacy. Discover a Holocaust story that transcends generations. One woman’s survival. A community’s legacy. A story that must be remembered.Born in Dresden as Nazism tightened its grip, Irmgard (Irma) Conradi witnessed the rapid dismantling of Jewish life in Germany. As discriminatory laws escalated into violence, her world collapsed during the terror of Kristallnacht. She navigated her own survival in a regime built on persecution and terror – one that punished Jewish lives and targeted non-Jewish people who dared to oppose it.Irma recounts her story with astonishing clarity: her family’s tragic fate, her forced removal from Germany and her ultimate survival, the fate of her family and her arrival to Australia as a refugee. Interwoven with Irma’s testimony is the voice of author Fiona Kelmann, who explores the powerful terrain of post memory, revealing how the past shapes the present and how stories are inherited across generations.The book also shines light on the unique strength of Melbourne Holocaust survivors, a community defined by resilience, generosity, and an unwavering commitment to education and remembrance. Irma’s two decades at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum form a central part of this legacy. A story of survival, witness, and responsibility, this book is a profound testament to the enduring power of memory – and the courage of one woman who refused to be silenced.Born in Dresden as Nazism tightened its grip, Irmgard (Irma) Conradi witnessed the rapid dismantling of Jewish life in Germany. As discriminatory laws escalated into violence, her world collapsed during the terror of Kristallnacht. She navigated her own survival in a regime built on persecution and terror – one that punished Jewish lives and targeted non-Jewish people who dared to oppose it.Irma recounts her story with astonishing clarity: her family’s tragic fate, her forced removal from Germany and her ultimate survival, the fate of her family and her arrival to Australia as a refugee. Interwoven with Irma’s testimony is the voice of author Fiona Kelmann, who explores the powerful terrain of post memory, revealing how the past shapes the present and how stories are inherited across generations.The book also shines light on the unique strength of Melbourne Holocaust survivors, a community defined by resilience, generosity, and an unwavering commitment to education and remembrance. Irma’s two decades at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum form a central part of this legacy. A story of survival, witness, and responsibility, this book is a profound testament to the enduring power of memory – and the courage of one woman who refused to be silenced.