Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
- Written by: Jordana Silverstein, Historian, The University of Melbourne
Martin Hunter/AAPThis is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.
Two of my grandparents were Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to Australia as displaced people, refugees or stateless – in the words they chose to use in their landing documents and naturalisation applications.
I thus find myself...