In conversation with Steve Braunias, Diana Wichtel talks of her memoir and the long search for her lost father Ben Wichtel, a Polish Jew, rounded up by the Nazis and who jumped to safety from a train on the way to the Treblinka death camp.

Season 3, DiscourseGoing West Festival14 March 2021Memoir, Family History, Autobiography, Treblinka Death Camp, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Holocaust Survivors, Jewish Refugees, Poland, Antisemitism, Diana Wichtel, Benjamin Wichtel, Steve Braunias

The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road

Jesse Mulligan interviews Steve Braunias about his book, The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, exploring the fast-food joints on New Zealand’s second busiest road.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival12 July 2020Lincoln Road, Henderson, West Auckland, Fast-Food, Steve Braunias, Jesse Mulligan, Food