Hear a Witness: Andre Dubrowin

Join us at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum for the rare opportunity to hear first-hand from Holocaust survivor Andre Dubrowin.

Andre was born in 1939 in Brussels, Belgium to Polish and Romanian parents.

When the war came to Belgium in 1940, his parents decided to flee to France. On their second attempt, the family was arrested and sent to Drancy Internment camp. Andre was unwell and with the help of a family friend and a French Police officer who had been bribed, Andre was released to the Red Cross. He spent the following war years living in a Catholic orphanage, with  a business associate of his father’s, an elderly couple back in Brussels and on a farm.

After liberation, his mother’s brother came to pick him up – a person he did not remember speaking a language he no longer spoke – he was five and half years old.

Andre moved to Australia in 1948 with his uncle and aunt who eventually adopted him.

Join us on the 22nd of September to meet Andre and learn about his experiences.