Tony Bernard

Tony Bernard is an emergency doctor at Northern Beaches Hospital and Mona Vale Hospital in Sydney, Australia. His father, Henry, was his hero, and it was natural that he followed him into the medical profession. Yet it was one thing to idolize Henry, and another to understand who he was and what he had gone through. Over decades and during multiple trips to Europe, Tony found himself on a path of discovery, eventually writing his father's memoirs shortly before his death in 2016. What began as...See more

Tony Bernard is an emergency doctor at Northern Beaches Hospital and Mona Vale Hospital in Sydney, Australia. His father, Henry, was his hero, and it was natural that he followed him into the medical profession. Yet it was one thing to idolize Henry, and another to understand who he was and what he had gone through. Over decades and during multiple trips to Europe, Tony found himself on a path of discovery, eventually writing his father's memoirs shortly before his death in 2016. What began as a journey to understand his father became the uncovering of an extraordinary Holocaust survival story. Additional documents and photographs relevant to Henry's story can be viewed online at TonyBernard.com.au. See less