keeper of miracles

For more than thirty years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors at Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre. A Holocaust survivor himself, he, too, has unthinkable stories of triumph and tragedy, cruelty and hope. He was born in Vilna (Poland), when the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in the Vilna ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labor and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 while on a Death March. He moved to Australia in 1949.