Mendel Balberyszski, born in Vilna, completed pharmaceutical studies at the Vilna University and the Warsaw University. After surviving the Vilna ghettos and the Estonian concentration camps, he was reunited with his family and they emigrated to Australia, where his Balberyszski Jewish Bookstore became a communal landmark. Balberyszski died in Melbourne, Australia, on November 19, 1966.

Books: Stronger Than Iron (Edited)
Topics to speak about: Holocaust-Vilna-Lithuania-Poland
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