Product Description
23 February 2016
1:00pm
Free
Fifty years ago, eminent physician Dr Otto Walter abandoned life in Australia to return to Austria, leaving his crestfallen young grandson, Garry, to wonder why he had gone.
In this lecture, Professor Garry Walter AM explores the possible reasons for his grandfather’s departure, weaving in aspects of Otto’s extraordinary life, including his flight from Vienna after Kristallnacht, and his struggles to stay one step ahead of the Nazis in Europe.
Otto was to settle in Palestine (later Israel), before coming to Australia in 1949 on the Cyrenia – serving as the ship’s doctor for Jewish refugees. In Australia, the consummate medical skills that had proven life-saving for Otto’s family, were not formally recognised, marking the end of a distinguished career.
Professor Garry Walter AM is Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Sydney, Professor at the University’s Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He has delivered many invited talks locally and abroad, and has published over 350 articles, books and book chapters.
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