Dad was five when he arrived in Australia in 1938, together with his parents, sister, and brother, escaping Nazi Germany. Like many other Australian Jewish families of that era, this birthright provided a strong identity as well as a deep desire to work hard and make something of himself in his newly adopted country. 

The most valued item that the young family did manage to smuggle out of Nazi Germany was the sefer torah, which has since been housed at Temple Beth Israel. Seven generations of the Lustig family have layned from this sefer torah, including Dad, whose bar mitzvah was at TBI.

Read details of Adolf's story under the Timeline entry "His father passes away" dated 1962, and see documents from his time in Dachau.