Death shaded the life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer memoir he began in hospital was a final ‘act of love’
- Written by Tess Scholfield-Peters, Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Mark Raphael Baker at Treblinka death camp on a research trip.Provided by Raimond GaitaMark Raphael Baker began writing his final book, A Season of Death, from his hospital bed, in the wake of his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis. His second wife, Michelle, would later observe: “More than a comfort or distraction, in him it was a need.&rd...





